Assistant Accountant

Sellick Partnership have been engaged to recruit an Assistant Accountant for a Financial Services business based in Manchester City Centre. The purpose of this role is to ensure all limited company clients are operating efficiently and compliantly, being a point of contact for queries and questions with regards to their limited company finances. You will also be required to assist the Head Accountant in the preparation of the company monthly management accounts for the group.

The role

· Ensure all clients on-boarding is as smooth as possible, ensuring all clients understand the process from start to finish, completing all tasks in a timely manner.
· Ensure all administration for a client set up is completed by the Accounts Assistant within 24 hours of a client joining.
· Preparation of the monthly/quarterly management accounts for all limited company clients. Process involves exporting data from client portal, bank reconciliation and expenses/invoices analysis.
· Preparation and submission of the quarterly VAT and PAYE liabilities for each limited company client.
· Ad-hoc tasks dependent upon client requests i.e. income reference requests.
· Plan and assist in the development of a personal tax service in order to complete tax returns for ad-hoc clients as well as our core limited company clients.

The person

– AAT qualified or equivalent essential
– Studying towards ACCA would be desirable
– Ambitious and keen to develop
– Excellent telephone manner with the ability to speak to clients to resolve queries or help with on boarding
– Act as a point of contact for Accountancy queries from clients and suppliers
– Able to build outstanding working relationships with a variety of parties
– Able to implement and lead operational processes and procedures to ensure an exceptional customer service is provided to contractors and agencies
– Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise workloads and multitask on a daily basis
– Year-end preparation experience would be desirable, ideally with self-employed/limited company clients
– Use of IRIS would be desirable
– Positive, proactive, can do attitude

If you are looking for a career in a challenging, professional environment where you can make your mark as part of a dynamic and committed team, then I want to hear from you.

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