Accounts
Senior

Job Description

Location: Coventry

Salary: Competitive and dependent on experience

Hours: Permanent, Monday to Friday, 36.5 hours per week

At HB&O, we’re a team of passionate experts, specialising in supporting businesses and individuals through every stage of their professional and personal life. Our clients come from all different walks of life, operate in all kinds of different sectors and bring different experiences, passions and motivators to their work, but they all have a common goal: to be successful in their own right. We believe that our team should echo this too.

An opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and highly motivated Accounts Senior to join our team in our Coventry office.

 

Responsibilities and Duties

  • Be one of the main points of contact for clients
  • Possess excellent communication skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with clients
  • Ensure exceptional client care standards are maintained

 

Role and Expectations

  • Assist/support trainees with their queries and development
  • Undertake larger Limited company accounts jobs with minimal support
  • Liaise directly with the client for queries relating to jobs
  • Have responsibility for VAT returns/management accounts, including contacting the client as
    necessary to arrange etc
  • Have an awareness of the complete range of services provided by HB&O so you can spot potential opportunities when talking to clients
  • Xero accreditation, plus gain experience of the software to enable you to assist clients and advise them on systems
  • Build relationships with clients and become a trusted advisor so clients can contact you with
    queries
  • Consider personal tax planning when preparing company accounts
  • Review VAT returns and bookkeeping prepared by more junior members of the team
  • Have a real awareness of the time spent on jobs and the importance of achieving budgeted hours

 

Required Competencies:

  • You will have worked within an accountancy firm during your training and be passionate about using your skills to support clients
  • You will preferably have experience of preparing Limited company accounts with turnovers in excess of £1m

 

Experience in the following:

 – FRS102
 – OMBs
 – Groups
 – Charities
 – SRA Accounts Rules
 – FCA clients with CASS reporting
 – Charities

 

Job Benefits:

  • Clear opportunity for career progression
  • Flexi-hours – we have core hours from 9:30am to 4:30pm, then work the rest around your schedule
  • Hybrid working
  • Quarterly appraisals
  • Quarterly bonus schemes
  • Internal promotion opportunities
  • Free car parking
  • Employee discount platform
  • Regular social events
  • Wellbeing strategy and dedicated wellbeing team
  • Enhanced employer pension contribution
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Funded CPD courses

 

Click on the link to apply for this role: Apply now.

 

We look forward to hearing from you.

Career Benefits

flexi time

Flexi-hours

We have core hours from 9.30 to 4.30, then work the rest around your schedule.

Promotion Opportunities

Internal Promotion Opportunities

Once qualified, we have a graded management system so there is always somewhere to move up internally. 

Free Car Parking

Free Car Parking

No one wants to try and find a parking space before your first morning coffee. We’ve got plenty of parking at both our offices.

Discount Platform

Employee Discount Platform

From your supermarket shop to holidays you can save with our exclusive discount programme.

Please Note:

Due to the number of applications received, only successful candidates will be contacted. 

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