Accounts Assistant
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
What's the Role?
We are looking for a skilled and passionate Accounts Assistant to join our team in Derby. This is an excellent opportunity to join a professional firm of Chartered Accountants, with scope to train to become a Chartered Accountant.
Our opportunity
Haines Watts are a top 15 accountancy firm specialising within the owner managed business area nationwide. A well-established firm whose journey goes back over 90 years, we have retained our authentic and dynamic ethos and continue to grow nationally as well as regionally. Our strategic goal is to be the number one advisor to owner managed businesses.
You will be assisting in the management and delivery of accounts preparation services for our Owner Managed Business Client portfolio with the below key tasks being carried out.
Duties include:
- Produce an accounts working file in line with Haines Watts standards
- Produce an accounts summary and list of discussion points for the manager
- Work within a budget agreed at the planning stage
- To self-manage and prepare VAT returns for clients from a variety of industries
- To professionally represent the firm and its interests in dealings with clients and other professionals
- To attend training to further develop and maintain your technical skills,
- To achieve good passes with all professional and advance examinations, where applicable
- To plan and control your professional work for the firm’s clients within the firm’s standard procedures. You will be able to identify basic planning opportunities
- To identify and act upon any opportunities you see within the professional work you do to sell more services to existing and prospective clients
- You will keep up to date with internal policies, procedures and announcements
- Ad hoc administrative duties as needed by the Manager
- Prior knowledge of producing self-assessment tax returns would be an advantage
Your experience ideally will include:
- Assisting in financial reporting, for sole traders and limited companies
- Experience with using Iris, Sage, Xero and QuickBooks is preferred but not essential
- Prior knowledge of producing self-assessment tax returns would be an advantage
- Preparation of VAT returns
- Experience of incorporating checks to ensure accuracy, standing back from the detail ensuring all tasks are completed to a high standard
- Having to juggle a number of priorities whilst ensuring deadlines are met
- Communicating with all levels within an organisation
- Managing your own workload
- Creative thinking and having to consider the 'bigger picture'
You will have the following skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Good attention to detail
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Excellent Excel skills
- Good organisation and time management skills
- Proactive thinking and application skills
- Self-management skills
What you will need to be:
- Be authentic in every situation and like to be connected to your team, clients and local communities
- Like to listen and understand, to show up every day with passion and to stand up for things that matter to you
- Be driven to succeed, take initiative and want results
Qualifications:
- Qualified to AAT level (part qualified will be considered based on experience) or equivalent as a minimum.
- Haines Watts is committed to developing its people and will provide ongoing support and training.
What you get back from us:
- Competitive salary
- Study support package if applicable
- Excellent personal development programmes to support career growth opportunities
- Structured development as well as on the job practical training
- Flexible benefits reward package
- Working and learning directly from our Associate Directors & Directors
- Ability to progress all the way to the top!
If you are keen to secure a progressive role within a unique top 15 accountancy firm offering a great career progression, please apply today to find out more.
We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Haines Watts by any means. For any CVs which are submitted without instruction from the Haines Watts Recruitment team, Haines Watts reserves the right to contact and work directly with these candidates without payment of any agency fee.
Who We Are
It starts with you!
Some people think being an accountant is all about numbers. Here at Haines Watts we don’t! We believe it’s all about our people and the relationships they forge as well as the specialist insight that they might build over time. We’ve been around for 90 years, so we must know a thing or two.
Our clients come from all walks of life. They have different backgrounds, experiences, talents, skills and goals. Just like our people.
So, we have a question for you: are you looking for a job that’s just about the numbers? Or do you want a career which leans into who you are as a person. You will build a common foundation with your colleagues whilst progressing from Trainee to Manager, but from there, with our in-house programmes to help you, we actively encourage you to discover who you are as a person.
Is your preference to become a foremost authority in an accountancy specialism or someone who is energised by relationships with clients and teams? We value either career path equally, but we know that you will value one more than the other and we will support you on that journey of discovery.
You can find out more about us and our story here.
Our People Stories
What We Get Up To
Our Benefits
Flexible Working
Training and Development
Health & Wellbeing
Pension
Private Healthcare
Employee & Client Referral Schemes
Enhanced Family Leave
Haines Watts Rewards Scheme
*Dependent on office/role.
Meet Some of Our People
Sara oversees our tax incentives and reliefs team and works closely with innovative and creative businesses across the country. By getting to know her clients and their businesses on an individual basis, she is able to understand their goals and tailors her advice accordingly.
Sara ensures that businesses are benefitting from the wide range of incentives and reliefs that are available, from research and development (R&D) and patent box, to creative industries tax relief.
I began looking for alternative options, and after getting in touch with Haines Watts, I was fortunate enough to get myself an apprenticeship position in the Launceston Office. Four and a half years later and I’m now a manager, I’ve completed my AAT qualification and I am now studying to be a chartered (ACA) accountant.
In that time, I’ve gained a wealth of technical knowledge and developed an array of skills, I’ve been provided endless opportunities and faced a variety of challenges. All while earning on the job, meeting new people and enjoying (almost) every step of the way.
With Haines Watts, the thing I enjoy most is the people. It’s a family-like team, we all get along and look out for each other. I also enjoy that no one day is the same. Our clients are from a variety of industries, we get to visit many different client offices and meet different workforces.
Study and working can be challenging. As I’ve got further through my exams, I’ve learned how to manage my time better and be more disciplined, although it’s still very tough! Studying does also help with work, as it adds to your technical accounting knowledge and soft skills through apprenticeship modules.
Katherine joined Haines Watts as an Accounts Senior, and has experience of working with a variety of clients on both accounts and audit engagements, including charities, academies and solicitors.
What do you enjoy most about your job?:
Problem solving, and building rewarding, long-term relationships with clients.
Lisa re-joined Haines Watts in 2021, as Marketing & Business Development Manager working across our Derby, Nottingham and Leicester offices. Lisa’s role involves managing the marketing activity of our offices, working closely with our directors and bringing a fresh new focus to the promotion of our business.
What do you enjoy most about your job?:
The variety of the role which means there is never a dull day, speaking to businesses and individuals to find out what they are looking for from their accountant and taking time to find out what matters to them. I also enjoy building lasting relationships with all our clients old and new, whilst at the same time working alongside a great team of colleagues.
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