Commercial Accountant

Salary: £60,000 per year

Payroll Elite have partnered with this leading Chartered Accountants who are looking to recruit an Outsourcing Assistant Manager to join their outsourcing function based at their St Albans office. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded Accountant to provide a broad range of services to a diverse mix of clients across multiple industries.

Main duties

• Support the Outsourcing Director in growing the firm’s outsourcing revenues and winning new business.
• As a senior member of the team provide support in managing the team including direct line manager responsibilities for some team members.
• Take ownership of managing software platforms we use and maintaining relationships with software vendors.
• Become a software champion in the team proactively exploring new opportunities and ensure we are optimising our use of existing platforms.
• Help implement standardised outsourcing processes and procedures across the firm.
• Take responsibility for a portfolio of clients, ensuring a high-quality service is provided. Typically, this will involve overseeing the monthly bookkeeping and month end process and producing the agreed management reporting. This may require a hands-on approach depending on the client and nature of services being provided.
• Deliver high quality management accounts ensuing an efficient and accurate month end process has been followed, providing insightful analysis and insight.
• Delivery of ad hoc project work for clients. This could relate to budgeting and forecasting, system and process reviews or any other modelling or review required.
• Review VAT returns prepared by the team with support as necessary from central VAT team.
• Help the team’s training and development needs are met, leading workshops and internal training sessions as appropriate.

Qualifications/experience required

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA). Ideally 2+ years post qualified experience within a similar role in practice but applicants from industry also welcome.
• Good knowledge and experience of accounting software and applications (QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, Autoentry etc).
• Excellent excel skills are essential

Key skills required

• Attention to detail and well organised
• Ability to work within and lead a team
• Logical and systematic approach
• Excellent communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively with both the team and partners and provide constructive and timely feedback to the former
• Flexibility
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Work on own initiative

Benefits include:

23 days holiday pension, Life Assurance 4 x salary

Hours:

37.5 hours per week, Monday- Friday, flexi time with core hours being 10:00 to 16:30.

They so have an agile working policy.