Audit and Accounts Manager

TC Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy firm in the UK is seeking an experienced Audit and Accounts Manager to join their Blackfriars office. The role involves delivering high-quality audit and assurance services to a diverse SME client base. Candidates should be qualified accountants with audit experience, strong interpersonal skills, and technical knowledge of accounting standards. This position offers competitive salary and excellent benefits, including training and career development.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Health insurance benefit

Employee Assistance Programme

Regular training and development

Qualifications

• Several years post qualification experience, including experience as a Manager in practice.
• Up to date with current auditing and accounting issues.
• Confident with good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent client liaison skills necessary for building relationships.
• Experience working on a wide range of clients with strong technical knowledge.
• Good all round tax knowledge, especially corporation tax.
• Strong technical skills for completing file reviews.
• Willing and able to work under pressure with demanding deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver audit and assurance services to diverse clients.
• Maintain and develop strong client relationships.
• Assist senior managers and partners as required.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Audit experience

Interpersonal skills

Technical knowledge of UK GAAP

Proficient in Microsoft packages

Education

Relevant accounting qualification

Tools

CCH

Audit Automation

SAP

Xero

Quickbooks

Job description

Overview

Salary - Competitive dependant on experience

Hours - Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, 9.30am - 5.30pm

Holiday - 20 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays) increasing with service period

About the Audit/Accounts Manager role

We are TC Group, the fastest-growing top 20 accountancy firm in the UK. We're business advisors and accountants, with over 30 years of experience we've honed our skills and developed our service offering to deliver a much wider range of bespoke support and advice to ambitious business owners and their businesses.

Are you an ambitious qualified accountant with audit experience, looking for a new challenge?

If you are, then we have a great role for you at our Blackfriars office as an Audit and Accounts Manager. You can join a talented group of individuals, offering a great external audit service to a range of clients in the SME sector, the role comes with fantastic career development opportunities.

You will be responsible for the delivery of audit and assurance services to a range of clients and will therefore need to be highly technically proficient, a trusted expert in this field and be competent to go out and win work and generate new business leads. You will work for one or more of the senior managers and partners, assisting others with certain clients and as required. You will work on a number of clients in different sectors, maintaining and developing the strong relationships which are key to the firm's growth.

About you

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

• You qualified within a firm of accountants and have several years post qualification experience, including experience as a Manager in practice.
• You are up to date with current auditing and accounting issues and conversant with relevant auditing and accounting standards. Your responsibilities will include delivering high quality audits to our clients in the SME sector with support from the wider audit team to deliver the work
• You are confident with good interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral
• You have developed excellent client liaison skills. These are necessary as you are required to build relationships with the clients so that you are the person to manage their expectations, their audit, and our team to deliver robust, high quality audits
• You have experience of working on a wide range of clients and you have excellent technical knowledge, e.g. UK GAAP, FRS102, IFRS and ISA's
• You have good all round tax knowledge, especially corporation tax, and ideally some trusts and charity knowledge
• You have strong technical skills as you will be completing file reviews on a range of audit clients, utilising your existing technical knowledge and experience whilst developing your skills still further and ensuring quality standards are met in the department
• You are tech-savvy, proficient in all Microsoft packages, knowledge of CCH would be advantageous alongside Audit Automation, Cortax, Inflo, SAP, Xero, Sage & Quickbooks
• You are willing and able to work under pressure and cope flexibly with demanding deadlines.

Benefits

• Pension scheme
• Group life assurance 4 x salary
• Interest free travel season ticket loan
• Health insurance benefit (after probation period)
• Quarterly functions and events
• Access to our employee benefits portal - cashback and vouchers on everyday purchases
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Referral Bonus - we're always looking for talented individuals to join our team
• Regular training and development - continuous development and support not only for your professional qualifications but also for your personal goals and aspirations

About us

TC Group is growing and changing at quite a pace! We're an ambitious group of people with the same aim - to create a consistent, high-quality experience for our clients. Like us, our client list is growing - we're supporting more and more of the UK's ambitious business owners, SME's and large Corporations and it's a real team effort. We're helping them make courageous decisions to grow their businesses.

We always seek the best talent, looking for individuals who are technically brilliant, solution-focused and continually strive to be the best in class. Each member of our team plays an integral part in creating the unique feel and culture of our business, which in turn helps us continue to grow, develop and evolve. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.

We can only accept applications from candidates who are based in the UK and unfortunately we are unable to provide Sponsorship.