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We currently have a fantastic opportunity to join our Audit and Accounts Team. If you are someone who keeps client service in the heart of what you do, has excellent communication and people skills, with the ability to develop good working relationships with members of both our team and our clients, then we want to hear from you.

The ideal candidate should be dedicated to a career in practice, have a minimum of 4 years’ experience working primarily in audit, accounts preparation and compliance services, with experience of leading audits.

Ideally, the candidate will be ICAEW or ACCA qualified.

Aside from the technical knowledge, here are a few key expectations of what is required of you:

• A high level of flexibility when organising your workload. Be able to adapt and prioritise work to meet changing demands.
• An ability to delegate appropriate types and levels of work to assistants and trainees and to give them a clear understanding of what is required.
• Experience of reviewing other team members work and being able to feedback in a clear and constructive way as part of the job de-brief process.
• A strong sense of commercial awareness in relation to time costs and budgets when dealing with all types of work.
• The drive to achieve a high level of client satisfaction.
• Be able to demonstrate that you have a balance of politeness; professionalism; encouragement; firmness; and clarity.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary plus pension contributions.
• Great career development within a supportive training centre practice.
• Flexi-time.
• Birthday off.
• Modern open plan offices with free refreshments and located near the town centre.

The Seymour Taylor recruitment process will be conducted on the basis of merit and ability without discrimination of but not limited to race, religion, colour, gender, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status to ensure all applicants are treated equally.

Please send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@stca.co.uk

We currently have a fantastic opportunity to join our Outsourced Accounting Services Team. If you are someone who keeps client service in the heart of what you do, has excellent communication and people skills, with the ability to develop good working relationships with members of both our team and our clients, then we want to hear from you.

Overall purpose of the role:

To assist with external client work in the Outsourced Accounting Services team namely VAT returns, management accounts, payment runs and forecasting.

The position requires an individual whom:

• Has strong experience within the field;
• Is proficient with cloud-based book-keeping software such as Xero, Sage and QuickBooks;
• Is familiar with HMRC MTD for VAT requirements; and
• Can work independently and without supervision.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Assist in the preparation of management accounts for clients from their records as delegated.
• Post sales, purchases, bank and journal entries, prepare and reconcile control accounts to produce required reports for management account purposes.
• Assist in the preparation of VAT returns and highlight any unusual items ready for review.
• Reviewing bookkeeping and VAT jobs carried out by other employees.
• Communicating with clients to answer queries and finalise jobs.
• Assist in training clients on accounting software.

You need to be IT literate (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word) a strong team player, organised and have a positive and flexible approach.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary per annum plus pension contributions
• Great career development within a supportive training centre practice
• Flexi-time
• Modern open plan offices with free refreshments

The Seymour Taylor recruitment process will be conducted on the basis of merit and ability without discrimination of but not limited to race, religion, colour, gender, age, national origin, disability or veteran status to ensure all applicants are treated equally.

Please send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@stca.co.uk