Senior (Agriculture)

PKF Francis Clark; Taunton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join our agricultural team at PKF Francis Clark, where you'll provide expert accounting and tax compliance services to innovative farming clients. With opportunities for career progression in a supportive environment, this diverse role will involve managing accounts, preparing tax computations, and networking within the agricultural sector.

Benefits

Pension

Group life assurance

Health cash plan

Extra holiday option

Counselling support

Cycle to work scheme

Gifts for career milestones

One volunteering day per year

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in a similar role.
• Good technical knowledge of accounts preparation and tax compliance.
• Experience in servicing different types of business entities.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and complete annual farm and rural business accounts and tax computations.
• Review personal and company tax computations and regular VAT returns.
• Draft correspondence for clients and liaise with HMRC.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Communication

Client management

Education

AAT ACA/ACCA qualification

Qualified by experience

Tools

Accounts and tax return software

Job description

In a nutshell

Is career progression important to you?This diverse accounting role offers a gateway to exciting opportunities.

At PKF Francis Clark, recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Wellbeing, we support your career growth while ensuring a healthy work-life balance.

Join our agricultural team and work with passionate agri-businesses and farming clients who help feed the nation. You’ll provide expert accounting and tax compliance services, along with tax planning advice, to innovative farming, rural, and agri-businesses.

What you'll be doing day to day

You'll be working with entrepreneurial agricultural clients who have diversified their farming business to cider farms, wedding venues, ice cream parlours and other interesting enterprises.

• Oversee the planning, preparation and completion of annual farm and rural business accounts and tax computations
• Review of personal and company tax computations and regular VAT returns
• Oversee client bookkeeping services and preparation of forecasts and projections
• Undertake detailed analysis of income and expenditure to support decision making, planning and control
• Identify financial, commercial and tax planning opportunities for clients
• Ensure that accounting records for clients are maintained and kept up to date
• Draft correspondence for clients; liaising with HMRC, by telephone and email
• Provide varied administrative and business set-up services for clients
• Exposure to various capital tax issues e.g. inheritance tax and capital gains tax
• Network at county roadshows, farm walks or local cattle markets. Sharing knowledge and catching up with other rural teams across our southwest offices
• Have opportunities to participate in meetings and visit clients on farm

About you

• AAT ACA/ACCA qualified (or nearing qualification), or qualified by experience, with relevant experience in a similar role
• Good technical knowledge of accounts preparation and tax compliance
• Committed, logical and accurate, with a methodical approach to work and strong attention to detail
• Experience in servicing different types of business entity
• Experience in using accounts and tax return software
• Able to work independently and demonstrate initiative in delivering an excellent service to clients

Why work at PKF Francis Clark

As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisors in South West England, joining PKF Francis Clark brings opportunities to develop your career in a direction that interests you.

Having celebrated our centenary in 2019, we’re a team of nearly 1,000 people, based across our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro.

Our culture is flexible and supportive, enabling you to be the best you can be. We work hard to ensure you can be yourself, develop and be part of a forward-thinking team that makes brilliant things happen. But don’t just take our word for it.

PKF Francis Clark iscertified as a Great Place to Work. In 2024, we climbed nine places to 24out of 105 large organisations on the list ofthe UK’s Best Workplaces.

We’re also ranked amongthe UK’s Best Workplaces for Women(33 out of 90 large organisations),Best Workplaces for Development(30 out of 100) andBest Workplace for Wellbeing(44 out of 100).

Workplace culture experts Great Place to Work also highlighted PKF Francis Clark as a top achiever amongthe UK’s Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services.

And in recognition of our outstanding training programmes for graduates, school leavers and career changers, we’ve been ranked among England’sTop 100 Apprenticeship Employersfor two years running.

Whilst we’re proudly independent, PKF Francis Clark is a member of the PKF Global family of firms – together we’re the 12th largest provider of accountancy services in the UK. Being part of a global community of business advisors in 150 countries provides opportunities to expand your horizons by connecting with PKF colleagues around the world.

Your core benefits

Financial benefits:
• Pension
• Group life assurance - up to four times your core salary
• Group income protection
• Health cash plan to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare

Health & Wellbeing benefits:
• Option to buy 5 extra days holiday*
• Counselling and support for you and your immediate family
• Virtual GP for you and your immediate family
• Cycle to work*

Other benefits:
• Medicash Extras providing you with shopping and gym discounts
• Gifts for career and family milestones
• One volunteering day per year to support local organisations
• Emergency funding from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation

Please note
* These benefits are provided via a salary exchange and are subject to employee’s post exchange hourly rate remaining above the national minimum wage.