Accounts Assistant

JOBTITLE: Part Qualified ACCA Accounts Assistant

SALARY: 22K-28K depending upon experience

LOCATION: Oxford

SUMMARY:

Are you interested in working for a highly reputable company, with great benefits, culture and values?

My client is a leading firm offering specialist skills, access to a full range of services and is providing a high-calibre senior staff experience for extremely competitive fees.

A chartered accountancy, financial planning firm. With an excellent and proven track record with our large client base consisting of individuals, trusts, businesses and charities/non-profit organisations.

My client is committed to effectively communicating high-quality advice and guidance to our customers and contacts.

You will be applying for one of the UK’s top 100 accountancy and financial planning firms, with a large client base including individuals, trusts, businesses, charities and non-profit organisations.

We can provide compliance, consultancy and advisory services for every stage of business or personal life. You will find an approach to our clients professional and friendly with competitive fees.

My client is committed to effectively communicating high-quality advice to their customers and contacts.

OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES:
To prepare complete and accurate accounts for sole traders, partnerships and companies by the service line systems and procedures, as determined by Client Relationship Managers
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OTHER DUTIES:

• To carry out whatever task, project and assignment the Managers see fit
• Protect and secure clients’ data
• Reporting to Managers break downs in systems and procedures
• Be able to work with more junior staff supervising and training if necessary

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

Education

• IT literate

Qualifications

• Qualified by experience or part qualified ACCA

Experience

• Accounts practice experience, must have worked on company, sole trader and partnership accounts
• Be able to complete jobs to high standard with minimum of supervision
• Be experienced in using an accounts production package and Excel

Personal attributes

• Ability to work closely with Line Manager and to carry out several tasks, with minimum supervision and to deadline
• Ability to manage own workload effectively
• Work as part of a team being able to listen, absorb and digest information and build stable relationships.
• Reliable, trustworthy and approachable
• Ability to create ideas to improve processes and services to clients and support new initiatives
• Develops broad industry knowledge and proactively develops technical knowledge
• Uses industry knowledge to analyse and understand client information
• Plans ahead to deliver work to deadlines and communicates progress to managers
• Demonstrates an organised and thorough approach to own work and improves efficiency
• Recognises flaws and challenges conclusions and methodologies
• Is capable of thinking critically to generate solutions for clients
• Communication is clear and persuasive, ability to disseminate complex information to clients in an easy to understand manner
• Reacts flexibly and professionally to change
• Ability to act as a role model for teamwork and motivation of others while remaining patient and diplomatic
• Able to build and utilise knowledge of the firm’s services to develop business
• Proactively seeks marketing opportunities and actively brings in new work to the team
• Must be able to travel

Job Type: Permanent