Senior Accountant

Michael Page; Northam; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Study support

Flexitime

Hybrid work

Job summary

A Senior Accountant role based in Bideford, England, with a growing firm of chartered accountants. You will handle hands-on accounting, tax work, and lead a small team, with potential progression to a managerial, review capacity.

The firm offers flexible hours, hybrid working, and a study support package for professional qualifications, along with a pathway to develop technically within a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified or part-qualified with ACA/ACCA or equivalent.
• Experience with accounts/tax and VAT returns for various client types.
• Hybrid working: mix of home to office.
• Flexitime and study support packages offered.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review year-end accounts and tax for a range of clients.
• Review and mentor junior staff, ensuring accuracy of work.
• Provide bookkeeping and advisory support including VAT and personal/commercial tax.

Skills

Reviewing work

Team leadership

Tax knowledge

Education

ACA/ACCA

AAT

Tools

IRIS

Xero

Job description

A successful firm of chartered accountants based in Bideford is searching for a Senior Accountant to join their team in a role with increasing responsibility and opportunity to develop into a more managerial, review capacity, progressing in your career and carving an influential position, as a key addition to this growing firm.

Client Details

Based in Bideford the firm has been undergoing continued growth, with more recent organic new client growth and the position has arisen through planning for further expansion with managers needing the additional support of a career focused professional looking to progress technically and in level. The firm acts for wide ranging sole traders partnerships and limited companies and family owned businesses across wider ranging industry sectors. Full study support packages are on offer for those pursuing qualifications within a supportive and team focused environment with a good working culture and long serving staff. Flexitime benefits and hybrid working arrangements on offer as well with a mix of home to office working viable. Ideally looking for a full time addition whilst a minimum of four days a week on a part time basis can be considered equally. Utilises IRIS software and a preference for Xero

Description

Joining as a Senior Accountant based in their Bideford offices you will carve a key role within the team undertaking a hands on role, with increasing responsibility to help manager juniors, reviewing and checking work along with the hands on the delivery of year end accounts/tax and wider services, developing client relationships. You will therefore undertake preparation and review of accounts production for wide ranging sole traders/partnerships, but along with a significant focus on limited companies, along with general taxation work across personal and corporate tax, VAT Returns and bookkeeping help and advice to their clients. You will have increasing responsibility and opportunity to progressing your career and carving an influential position, as a key addition to this growing firm.

Profile

The firm is looking to consider individuals across a range of levels as the role can be moulded accordingly around this. You may be part ACA/ACCA, or qualified, as an experienced Senior Accountant within the accountancy practice sector. Alternatively you may have developed your career entirely through experience to date within accountancy practice, or may be AAT qualified with career experience developed with at least three to four years, or considerably more experience within this sector. Your will have a background preparing accounts/tax and wider services for sole traders, partnerships and limited companies. You will be looking to progress within your career and be seeking an opportunity within a highly successful firm of chartered accountants that offers you a path to develop. Full study packages on offer for those studying qualifications and hybrid mix of office to home working.

Job Offer

£30,000 - £40,000 negotiable and dependent on the experience and background of the right professional, plus benefits.