Thrive Group are recruiting for a Senior Bookkeeper on a permanent basis, located in the Swindon area.
This is a full-time position, paying up to £30,000 per annum, depending on experience.
The role purpose is to run a portfolio of bookkeeping, VAT and management accounting clients, ensuring deadlines and accounting standards are met.
Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to the following:
- Manage a portfolio of bookkeeping and VAT clients suitable in size and complexity for your role.
- Manage and undertake bookkeeping and VAT for a variety of clients inputting data and processing payments as required.
- Preparing management accounts monthly and quarterly ensuring details are accurate with clear and neat working papers to reflect the accounts produced and ensuring clear cross referencing.
- Proactively managing clients to ensure information is provided, services are completed and handling communication with clients and managers alike.
- Self-managing workload with limited involvement from managers, raising queries with managers where support is needed.
- Monitoring work and liaising with clients to provide information as required.
- Composing correspondence to clients and other relevant parties.
- Visiting clients' sites as required to carry out bookkeeping and management accounts.
The successful candidate will
- Be AAT L3 or QBE Qualified.
- Have 2 years+ of bookkeeping experience.
- Have experience preparing VAT returns.
- Have experience using Excel for data manipulation.
- Have knowledge of different VAT schemes.
- Confident with Xero, QBO and other accounting packages.
- Have effective communication skills - telephone, emails, letters, reports.
- Have good customer care skills.
- Have excellent prioritisation and time management skills.
- Will be able to work in an organised manner to strict deadlines - planning, diary management, department systems set up and maintenance.
- Will have interpersonal skills - able to build relationships both internally and with clients.
For more information please apply and a member of the team will be in touch.
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