Accounts and Audit senior for Chartered Accountants
TITLE: Accounts and Audit Senior
LOCATION:
88 Crawford Street, London W1H 2EJ
(ability to work remotely as necessary)
HOURS: Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm
Salary:
circa £40-50k depending on experience
1. Company background
Cameron Baum Hollander is a two partner practice of Chartered Accountants based in Central London. We have a wide range of business and personal clients and pride ourselves on superb client service from the time the client calls or enters our office to the time they receive their finished product of accounts or other advice. The firm's partners are Daniel Baum and Geoffrey Hollander
2. Job background
The company has always maintained technical staff at different levels, abilities and experience to enable the work to be allocated to staff with the right skill set, whilst allowing them the opportunity to gain experience and develop in their careers
3. Job Objective
The objective of this role is to prepare and be involved in accounts and audit assignments to completion and to support the managers in preparing more complex accounts jobs and audit assignments.
4. Prime responsibilities
o Complete preparation of final statutory accounts
o Carrying out company audits alone and in a small team
o Reviewing and overseeing work of junior staff
o Bookkeeping analysis (<10%)
o Other work including tax and credit analysis (10-20%)
5. Technical knowledge
The job holder will require the following technical skills:
- ACCA/ACA qualified or equivalent. Would consider ACCA students who have no more than 3 papers to complete.
- At least 3 years work experience
- Some corporate and personal tax knowledge, from exams as a minimum
- Microsoft Windows platforms
- Microsoft Office
- Virtual Cabinet document management system
- IRIS practice suite
- SAGE Line 50/Xero/bookkeeping packages - good knowledge
- Other accounts packages - working knowledge and ability to extract reports
- Working knowledge of other common operating systems and software applications
- Ability to work from home including good internet access and a suitable place to work
6. Capabilities
The job holder must display the following:
- Extremely well presented
- Good attention to detail
- See projects through to completion
- Be polite and patient with clients at all times
- Good written skills for emails and letters
- Have excellent interpersonal skills and able to work well with others
- A professional demeanour
- Remain productive and take initiative during slow times
- Be able to multitask effectively during busy times
- Exercise patience and professionalism during stressful situations.
- Ability to work responsibly with or without direct supervision
- Be enthusiastic and willing to work overtime when required
7. KPIs
The success of the job holder will be assessed against the following:
- File reviews on individual jobs
- Job assessments with job manager on all jobs over half a day
- Technical accuracy of product output
- Personal presentation
- Quality of emails and written correspondence
8. Review
The job holder (s) will be reviewed after 3 months and then every 12 months in terms of their ability to establish and develop in this vital role.
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