Bookkeeper
This is a Permanent, vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
What's the Role?
We are looking for a passionate and highly enthusiastic Bookkeeper to join our team in Skegness.
As a Bookkeeper working within our Skegness office, the role will be covering all basic accounts work and provides an opportunity to develop bookkeeping skills within a supportive and collaborative environment.
We are a well-established firm since the 1930's with an entrepreneurial and dynamic feel who are continuing to grow nationally as well as regionally.
We are proudly known as an excellent place to work, with the prized one-star accreditation for employee engagement from Best Companies, an accreditation showing our 'very good' levels of workplace engagement.
Haines Watts is committed to develop its people and will provide extensive training where appropriate, offering a full study package including qualification funding, study leave, college based tuition and a mentor/ buddy who will support you throughout to successfully complete your professional qualification.
Full training will be given and for the right candidate it is an opportunity to begin a prosperous career with excellent training and progression working for an award winning firm.
With Haines Watts you will be:
- Processing supplier and debtor's invoices and ensuring timely supplier payments
- Balancing accounts and bank reconciliations
- Transactional entries on all accounting software products
- Preparation of VAT returns
- Monitor VAT deadlines
- Assist with the preparation of management accounts
- Building and maintaining good working relationships with clients
- Monitoring aged listings
- Dealing with financial paperwork and filing
- Ad hoc duties
- Have an opportunity to progress!
What you will need to be:
- Punctual, presentable and with the ability communicate.
- 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
Skills:
- Knowledge of Xero would be beneficial, however training will be provided
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Good attention to detail and organisational skills
- Good IT skills including use of Excel
- Good time management skills with the ability to work towards tight deadlines.
Qualifications:
You will ideally be AAT qualified or have the enthusiasm to learn the skills required.
What you get back from us;
- Training for a lifelong career with great prospects for you
- Excellent personal development programme and career growth opportunities
- Supported on the job practical training
- Flexible benefits reward package – gym, discounts etc
- Working and learning directly from a qualified and knowledgeable mentors
- Opportunity to progress all the way to the top!
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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