Accountant

Salary: £30,000 – £54,000 per year

Do you feel undervalued, not rewarded for your revenue-generating ideas or lacking excitement or development in your current role?

We are excited to be working closely with a unique Award-Winning Chartered Accountant firm who are looking for a Senior Accountant to work from home, providing clients growth support with a modern mindset. Our client is far from traditional accountancy, seeking a vibrant positive personality to join the equally fun team.

Flexible working hours, spreading hours as you wish! This is a role that can fit you giving you the work/life balance that we all desire (life is too short!), so you can be at home for school runs, family life or working more productively not having to travel (only unless you have meetings of course).

As a Senior Accountant you will have recent practice experience and be fully qualified with energy and passion to help business owners mapping out business strategies relevant to their internal and external environments, growth planning, embracing goals and performance, scaling growth for their own future and wellbeing. Our client goes beyond traditional accountancy, modern accountancy is about so much more than just bookkeeping, tax returns and putting your receipts in a spreadsheet, even though they do offer this but their real strength is working with consultants, coaches and entrepreneurial clients front-end and this is where you come in, offering your innovation and ability to think outside of the box!

You will be part of compliance work, reviewing and checking but your role will fundamentally be advisory, whether this is securing clients investment or funding or helping them for rapid growth, or providing guidance on wealth from savings or investments for future freedom equally protecting clients on their journey.

Time allocation:

65% client meetings and interaction, 15% review accounts, 20% team training

Key activities:

* Tax reviews for both personal and business clients

* Advisory meetings

* Strategic goals

* You will work closely with the Managing Director on strategy and client development within a niche field consultants, coaches and entrepreneurs

* High level accounting and taxation advice with specialists (if needed)

* Final review of compliance documents, tax returns, financial statements, reconciliations, and work papers

* Coaching and developing junior accountants

* Develop and maintain relationships with clients

* Assist managers and partners with advisory or project work as required

* Develop a professional presence and corporate network to enhance the brand and your identity (events, social medial, referrals)

* Identify, develop, and follow through business opportunities

As Senior Accountant will naturally enjoy finding solutions and fixing problems, be entrepreneurial, love dealing with people but not losing the accountancy aspect you have trained hard to get. You are not working alone either, as you will have a Client Service Coordinator working in alignment with you, giving you the freedom, you need whilst they complete the administration for you.

Key attributes needed:

A winning burning desire to succeed

Client orientated, building a strong rapport

Highly motivated and never quits

Creativity

A real team player

Competitive to prove yourself and to others

Positive outlook

Focused and personable

Professional with a nice disposition, showing empathy seeing from the other’s point of view

Driven by performance reviews on performance, not hours worked

Qualifications:

Fully qualified – ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CTA, CA

GCSE Maths and English (A or B grade ideally)

A Levels

Degree

Min. 1 year’s practice experience ideally recently

Ideally, 5 years’ experience in general or tax accounting

Min. 1-year PQE

Package:

* Competitive salary depending on experience

* Location: from home anywhere in the UK

* Pension

* 33 days holiday

* Learning and development allowance

* Away days and trips for company business development and strategy

* Personal development events, for example, UPW – Tony Robbins

* Monthly meetups Birmingham and Quarterly meetups all expenses paid

Action

If you want to join a friendly agile team who all believe in the new breed of accountants, who work together as a team, socialise and all enjoy what they do, please send us your CV in word format, with a covering letter outlining why this role appeals to you and we will send you some further job details in return.