Junior Accountant
Leeds
An exciting new opportunity has risen due to ongoing growth in Clever Accounts for a Junior Accountant. Do you have the drive and ambition to continue your personal and professional development?
If so, we are looking for the right candidate with:
Excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships with colleagues and clients.
Always aiming to deliver excellent customer service.
Excellent attention to detail and a good knowledge of accountancy principles.
Work well with others and confidently communicate challenges and opportunities to clients and colleagues.
Be self-motivated and work hard to achieve your end goals.
The focus of the role is:
Building and managing a portfolio of 80 -200 clients with training.
Communicating with clients, in a timely professional manner via calls and emails.
Focus of providing excellent customer service
Assisting clients on the use of our bookkeeping portal
Providing basic tax planning and ad hoc advice when required.
Reviewing accounts and approving them to be sent to the client.
Preparing self-assessment tax returns to send to clients for approval.
Person Specification:
Good attitude and ability to take ownership of work
Ambitious and career-orientated.
A good understanding of accounting principles.
Good technical ability and experience with limited companies
Excellent attention to detail
Able to manage own workload effectively & work methodically
Excellent writing and oral communication skills.
A team player
A commitment to personal development
Computer literate / IT savvy
Benefits and Outcomes
Casual dress code -no expensive, stuffy suits
No need to complete time sheets where you would have to account for every 6 minutes of your day
Forward thinking, modern business
Clients use our online bookkeeping portal, so you won’t be working through a bag of receipts
Gain an all round knowledge of accountancy in a friendly, modern, open plan environment where you won’t be pigeonholed.
No audit
Full office-based training & development programme