Accounts Supervisor
Location: Chester
Hours: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Depending on Experience
Working Hours: 37.5 hours a Week (Monday to Friday)
About:
We are currently recruiting for an AAT qualified, or senior qualified accountant by experience, to work in our clients' accounts department. You would be acting for clients, including limited companies and sole traders, operating in a wide range of business sectors. They have a mix of clients using Xero or other Cloud products.
An Accounts Supervisor has a hybrid role – they act a Client Managers for a portfolio of their own clients (building relationships with the clients and reporting directly to the partner) and they will assist in similar work for other managers.
Are you an ambitious qualified accountant with UK Accounts experience looking for a new challenge with a strong Nationally-recognised Firm?
Job Description
- The primary focus of the role will be both acting as principal contact for your own portfolio of clients and also supporting our team in a variety of areas, for example by tackling more complex accounts work and assisting the managers with various client-related tasks and special ad hoc assignments
- Preparation of financial statements, year-end accounts, other accounting and financial returns (VAT, Management accounts, cash flow forecasts etc)
- Someone who is passionate about helping their clients prosper through building profitable and successful businesses
- The successful applicant will have the skills to help clients interpret their accounting data and provide innovative and long-lasting solutions to their accounting problems
- They are looking for someone who understands the benefits that cloud products, particularly Xero, can bring to their clients and who has the enthusiasm and drive to help develop the range of Xero-based and other Cloud apps and services they offer
- Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills in order to proactively engage with clients
- A strong team player who has the ability to work under minimal supervision and work closely with the manager team in driving projects forward
- All applicants must have substantial accounting experience in practice, ideally gained in a UK professional Firm, to include preparation of statutory and management accounts, VAT and bookkeeping (using Xero and Sage)
- In order to meet the above criteria, they would expect candidates to be Qualified AAT or qualified by experience
Benefits:
- Study Package, including TOIL (Time off in Lieu)
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Pension Scheme arrangements using a scheme of your choice
- Reimbursement of one professional subscription each year
- Client referral bonus for new clients introduced
Experience/skills that are desirable
- Act with integrity at all times
- Be approachable to members of the team and clients
- Excellent communication skills
- Love developing internal and external relationships
- Good client facing skills
- Be able to manage your work load
- Support and provide on the job training to less experienced members of the team as required
- Strong personal ethics
Professional Qualification
- A recognized accountancy qualification (AAT) and/or qualified by experience
Professional experience
- To be considered for this role you must have strong experience in an accountancy practice and an enthusiasm for working with a variety of client businesses
System experience
- Ideally you will have experience in using Sage, Xero and associated apps, and CCH
For more information, please contact the below:
Amy Doumbia
Recruitment Consultant
T: 07842 313 876
E: amy@supreme-ss.com