Top 25 Financial Accountant

BV Recruitment Ltd; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Top 25 accountancy firm located in Central London is seeking a qualified Accounts Senior, Business Services Senior, or Accounts Supervisor. The role offers a range of responsibilities in statutory accounts and financial reporting with opportunities for career progression in a friendly and supportive environment, hybrid working, and diverse client engagements.

Benefits

Flexi working

Training and support

Genuine progression opportunities

Qualifications

• 2 to 3 years PQE in accountancy.
• Experience with UK GAAP and FRS 102.
• Experience managing junior staff and reviewing their work.

Responsibilities

• Prepare statutory accounts and financial reporting.
• Supervise juniors and review their work.
• Engage in management accounts, VAT returns, and ad hoc advisory projects.

Skills

Statutory accounts

Financial reporting

Client liaison

Management accounts

Audit process

Education

ACA Qualification

Job description

Are you an ACA Qualified Accounts Senior, Business Services Senior or Accounts Supervisor with strong experience of statutory accounts and financial reporting? Do you have experience of FRS 102, UK GAAP and ideally 2 to 3 years PQE? Are you from an accountancy firm background and looking to join a large Top 25 accountancy firm with over 600 staff in a hands on role with exposure to some very large clients? Are you looking for a role where you will have a great opportunity to progress to Manager grade in a short space of time? Are you looking to work on a wide variety of both UK and overseas based listed clients, as well as achieve a good work life balance for such a large firm? If so, this growing Top 25 accountancy practice firm based in a prime location in the City is looking to recruit a new member of staff due to impressive growth over the last few years and new large clients from larger competitors. Based in a friendly and supportive team, you will work with a range of interesting clients from sectors including financial services, retail, technology, media, entertainment, property, legal, oil & gas, renewable energy and many more. Your role will be hands on and mainly preparing work yourself but will also include an element of reviewing work and supervising juniors. Your role will be bias towards statutory accounts, financial reporting and consolidations, but will also include other duties such as management accounts, Vat returns, corporation tax returns and other ad hoc duties and advisory projects. Your role will be advisory based, varied, challenging, and training will be provided where necessary.

To be considered for this new role (June 2025) you must be ACA Qualified, ideally with 2 to 3 yeas PQE. You must be working for a good quality practice firm, ideally medium or large in size and you must have experience of preparing both statutory accounts under UK GAAP and of FRS 102. Ideally you will have experience of IFRS and have some experience of audit assignments so you understand the audit process. You must have experience of using a disclosure checklist when preparing accounts. You must also have experience managing junior staff, reviewing their work and providing feedback. It would also be an advantage if you had experience of management accounts, VAT and tax returns as well as strong client liaison skills. You must now be looking to upgrade to a large Top 25 practice based in a City location in Central London where you can continue with your accountancy career, work on an interesting client base and receive top training, support and future progression to Manager grade on offer.

This growing accountancy firm has a great reputation for being a friendly and supportive place to work and providing their staff with challenging and varied roles. You will work in a friendly and growing Business Services Department, and you can expect to work on an interesting array of clients from a wide range of industries. The department is growing at a rapid rate due to many new business wins from larger accountancy firms. Overall this is a unique opportunity for a good quality qualified Accounts Senior, Business Services Senior or an Accounts Supervisor who wants to carry out a statutory accounts and financial reporting based role in a leading London accountancy firm with great support, variety of work, hybrid / flexi working and genuine progression on offer.