Accounts Manager

Gravita; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a full service, tech-enabled firm, working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.

We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.

The Role

An Accounts Manager ensures the smooth delivery of statutory accounts preparation and manages comprehensive accounts assignments, including those for charities and not-for-profits. You will oversee workflow and team management, taking the lead on audit assignments from planning to completion, and reviewing audit files ahead of Director review. Building and sustaining key relationships with clients is crucial, as is handling ad-hoc project work.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Assist the Senior Management team and Directors in delivery of statutory accounts preparation
2. Full Accounts role including Charities and NFP
3. Management and delivery of accounts assignments
4. Oversight of workflow and management of team
5. Taking lead role on audit assignments from planning to completion
6. Review audit files ahead of Director review
7. Building and sustaining key relationships with clients
8. Ad-hoc project work

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience:

1. ACA / ACCA qualification with practice experience
2. Experience as a manager or overseeing a small team
3. Experience managing accounts assignments including planning, preparation, completion and client delivery
4. Strong technical knowledge of financial reporting
5. Experience using IRIS and My Work Papers (desirable)

Your Career with Gravita

When you join Gravita, we’ll support you on your own growth journey. We want to be the place you learn, grow and unlock your true potential.

We’ll work with you to build a progression plan to outline how you’ll grow at our company and everything we’ll do to help you get there. We’re also passionate about learning and development, to help you focus on your future.

The Nitty Gritty

1. Our standard working week is a 37.5-hour week on a hybrid basis (with up to 50% of your time across the month home based and the other 50% office based)
2. Core working hours are 10am - 4pm Monday to Friday
3. Flexible working and happy employees are at the top of our list here at Gravita and we have been working hard to support our teams through the fast-paced changes.
4. Your development won’t be forgotten, our development support is extraordinary for a firm of our size.
5. It's a busy, fast-paced environment here at Gravita. Feel free to check out our social media channels (Instagram, X, LinkedIn and Glassdoor).