Senior Client Accountant.

Responsibilities include the following:-

Specific

• To assist, help & support the Senior Manager and Clients Managers in managing a portfolio of clients.
• To assist the Senior Manager & Client Managers in managing the filing deadlines for year end accounts and corporation Tax returns (CT600’s) for the clients in their own pool and wider portfolio of clients.
• To effectively manage your own pool of clients within the wider Client Portfolio.
• To ensure client documents are received in time for completion of work, adhering to all deadlines.
•  To ensure all client documents are returned to the client once work has been completed.
• To supervise a team of less experienced Client Accountants on the same portfolio of clients.
• To assist with training Client Accountants and any new starters.
• Actively looking to build rapport with your clients.

General

• Responsible for keeping the client details up to date at all times.
• To manage a portfolio of your own clients for all bookkeeping, VAT and year end accounts services.
• Bookkeeping & VAT return preparation for clients within the portfolio.
• Preparation of year end accounts, financial statements and company, partnership and individual tax computations for clients within the portfolio.
• Preparation of periodic Management Accounts for clients within the portfolio.
• Preparation of business & personal tax computations for client owners within the portfolio of clients.
• Provide support on Payroll services and preparation of payroll annual returns and P11D’s.
• Preparation of Self Assessments and personal tax computations and returns.
• Using applications such as TaxCalc, Hubdoc, IRIS Practice Suite, Sage software and certain cloud based accounting software’s on behalf of clients e.g. Xero.
• Advising on the improvement of profitability and business efficiency through continuous monitoring and by implementing effective business controls and re-systemising the client businesses.
• Helping to control and manage the cash flow of the client businesses.
• Reducing the burden of taxation on the businesses and their owners with good tax planning and advice.
• Actively looking to introduce new clients to the company and help promote and sell its services to prospective clients, financial institutions and the business community.
• To cover the Administration team when required in all areas such as answering the phones, post and client meetings
• Ensuring the phone is answered at all times.

Pre-Requisites

• 2 – 3 years’ experience of working in a practice
• Ideally be AAT or ACCA part-qualified.

What’s on offer?

• Competitive salary
• 25 Day’s holiday (includes 3 days for Christmas and New Year as the office is closed)
• Extra Day’s Leave for your Birthday
• Extra Day’s Leave awarded after 3 years of service up to a maximum of 30 days
• Hybrid working
• Flexi-time working
• Dress Down Friday
• Smart Business Casual Dress Code
• Regular team socials including Chester Races
• Annual Away trip with overnight stays
• Private Medical Insurance after 2 Years’ service
• We have the ‘Ascendis Rewards’ incentive scheme, where you get a % (25% in most cases) bonus relating to your personal involvement in the sourcing and signing up of new business into Ascendis, which can be based on a percentage of the first year’s fee.

Ascendis Rewards also includes a bonus scheme for any successful introductions you initiate relative to any of the below:-

• Upselling of core services to clients
• R&D Tax Credit claims
• Business Funding deals
• Wealth Management & Financial Planning

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