Practice Manager - Accountancy

Practice Manager - Accountancy

Fantastic opportunity to work for an established accountancy firm located in Bushey Heath.

Salary: Up to £46,000pa depending upon skills and experience

Permanent: Full or Part Time

Location: Bushey Heath, Greater London

This role is ideal for an ambitious Practice Manager looking for a new challenge in a commercial and entrepreneurial environment.

Our Client

Celebrating their 15th year of growth.

They provide a tailored, personal and professional accounting service. Helping start-ups, sole traders, partnerships, limited companies, property landlords, contractors, freelancers and individual taxpayers.

They provide all the services you would expect from an accountant, including accounts, tax, payroll, business advice and much more.

The Role

To support the London Managing Director:

• Manage the portfolio of clients, including private clients, SMEs, limited companies, partnerships, sole traders; ensuring client service levels and expectations are maintained.
• Support the team to prepare the work ready for your review of accounts, personal tax returns, corporate tax returns, bookkeeping and payroll functions.
• Help to develop relationships with appropriate offshore/outsourcing providers and implement systems and processes to improve efficiency and maximise profitability through use of their services.
• Manage workflow of a portfolio of clients in a timely manner, including pre-year-end meetings, annual accounts and tax production and submission, including communication with HMRC and Companies House on behalf of clients.
• Supervising and reviewing work of junior staff members to include monitoring work in progress and work standards and support in their training and development.
• Establish and maintain a professional and friendly working relationship with clients, professional contacts, and team members.
• Record, manage, organise, and update relevant data using software applications.
• Maintain regular consistent and professional attendance, punctuality, personal appearance and adherence to relevant health and safety procedures.

The ideal candidate will need to be ACA or ACCA with a minimum of 4 years in a small practice experience. As well as:

• Accounts, VAT and Tax knowledge and experience with OMB, Small Businesses and Individuals
• Confident and experienced user of cloud accounting systems and IT. Preferably Xero, Quickbooks, FreeAgent, Practice Management systems, Taxfiler and Outlook. (In-house training can be provided on all)
• Self-motivated personality able to identify and willing to assume additional responsibilities while continuing to deliver all services of the role.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills and client service skills.

Our Clients Values

• Be friendly approachable and trustworthy
• Customer orientated - deliver excellent customer service
• Take personal responsibility
• Problem solvers - anticipate and solve client problems
• Work together with respect for colleagues and support each other as individuals and teams
• Always operate with integrity - know and do what is right

Benefits

• 20 days paid holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Competitive salary of £38-46k dependent on experience
• Company pension scheme
• In-house training programme and ongoing CPD.

Apply today with an up-to-date CV.