Accounts Manager

Royston

Up to £70,000 (DOE)

AJ Chambers have an opportunity for you to join one of our impressive clients’ firms as an Accounts Manager, to work within one of their busy teams in their Royston office, which provides a wide range of services to clients, including accounts preparation, bookkeeping and the production of management accounts and information as well as Tax computations and advice.

You would ideally have relevant previous experience, have completed your ACA or ACCA qualification and be self-motivated, computer literate and have good written and verbal communication skills.

You would be:

• ACA/ACCA qualified or equivalent preferably with 3 or more years’ post-qualification experience in an accountancy practice
• Proven client relationship skills
• Broad accounts and tax knowledge with the ability to advise clients directly
• Proficient at Microsoft office especially Excel
• Excellent knowledge of accounting packages e.g. IRIS, Xero, Sage, QuickBooks etc
• Experience of managing client assignments

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive Salary
• A paperless office
• Salary sacrifice available into workplace pension scheme – subject to minimum wage requirements.
• Employee assistance programme
• UNUM (critical illness protection) scheme – included in the next renewal after 1 year of service.
• 25 days annual leave increasing with service
• Core hours 10-4 giving flexibility to start and end times of working day (10-3 on a Friday)
• 36.25 hr working week
• annual salary reviews in April
• Diverse and interesting portfolio
• Autonomy and genuine progression opportunities

Some of the duties you will expected to undertake in this role:

• Assume overall responsibility for client assignments;
• Deliver accounts to partner for discussion with clients, free of technical error and with only major queries outstanding;
• Ensure all deadlines and budgets are met;
• Manage multiple assignments with competing demands
• Take responsibility for WIP control and billing;
• Assist in the management of the overall team on a day to day basis;

Client Relationships

• Act as a major point of contact within the firm for client requests/needs, including discussion of billing and fees, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the service provided and maintaining regular contact with clients;
• You will be expected to be able to write professional letters, reports and other written submissions for review by partners;
• Leads and influence meetings with clients, in the absence of partner when appropriate;
• In regular, progressive contact with clients building personal rapport

Technical

• Monitor and improves team’s work to ensure consistently high standards;
• Contribute to new technical material;
• Keep up to date with all technical developments to ensure continued excellent services
• Work with partners to resolve technical problems and issues
• Identify technical issues, research and suggests solutions

Inter-personal Skills

• Inspire confidence and have the trust of partners;
• Develop staff, their capabilities and performance; (includes ensuring job appraisal documentation is completed within deadlines and ensuring appropriate objectives and development plans are in place for appraisees). Resolve any negative issues
• Oversee and manage clients’ accounts, tax and value-added services assignments, to include monitoring progress against budget and established timeframe, review of work completed by junior team members and resolving all issues prior to Partner review;

If you would like more information or would be interested in this role, please apply direct or contact Danny Brown at AJ Chambers.