Senior Accountant

About the Accountant role

We are [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], the fastest-growing top 20 accountancy firm in the UK. We’re business advisors and accountants, with over 30 years of experience we’ve honed our skills and developed our service offering to deliver a much wider range of bespoke support and advice to ambitious business owners and their businesses.

We currently have an exciting opening for a Senior Accountant in our Professional Services division.

Our Professional Services division is a compact team in Northern Ireland, working with a much larger team in India; this role provides boundless opportunity and variety. You will be technically strong, an excellent communicator, and have strong people skills.

This role has much crossover with a general practice accountant, but offers unrivalled opportunities for progression. It will suit an ambitious, technically skilled all-rounder with strong practice experience, excellent communication skills and a desire to lead.

Key responsibilities

• Managing, supporting, and training an international team in providing accounting support to clients
• Preparing and finalising year end accounts and corporation tax returns for limited companies, partnerships, sole-traders and LLPs
• Reviewing bookkeeping, management accounts and VAT returns
• Delivering excellent client service
• Involvement with workflow implementation and management
• Assisting with driving technological solutions in accounting

About you

• Qualified accountant (CAI/ACCA/ICAEW)
• Minimum of 3 years’ relevant experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong experience with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Great attention to detail and strong organisational skills
• Pro-active, self-starter with a positive attitude
• Previous experience of CCH, Quickbooks, Xero and Sage advantageous
• Knowledge of payroll advantageous
• Leadership qualities and experience

Full benefits

• Pension scheme
• Group life assurance x 4
• 23 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays) increasing by one day per each year of service (up to a maximum of 5 days)
• Flexible hybrid working
• Car parking
• Access to employee benefits portal
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Regular training and development

About us

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is growing and changing at quite a pace! We’re an ambitious group of people with the same aim – to create a consistent, high-quality experience for our clients. We support more and more of the UK’s ambitious business owners, SMEs and large Corporations. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.

We can only accept applications from candidates based in the UK and unfortunately, we are unable to provide Sponsorship.