Business Services Associate /Semi Senior -Chartered Accountants
Description✓Business Services Associate / Semi Senior - York - £25,000 - £35,000
✓Sewell Wallis are currently recruiting for a York based Chartered Accountants that are looking for a Business Services Associate / Semi Senior to join their fantastic team of accountants and tax specialists
✓Reporting into one of the Directors, you will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality financial information on annual, quarterly and monthly assignments.
✓The role would ideally suit someone who is currently studying towards their AAT or ACCA/CIMA qualification, however candidates with extensive experience of auditing accounts and bookkeeping will still be considered.
✓Key Responsibilities
✓· Preparing accounts and tax returns for corporate and unincorporated clients
✓· Providing exceptional levels of service to clients on a wide variety of areas, on a cost effective and timely basis.
✓· Responding to client queries, and those from third parties [e.g
✓HMRC] in a timely manner.
✓· Seeking to gain experience/ progress role by seeking to take more advanced work from directors.
✓· Developing knowledge of clients and their businesses as to become their first point of contact on day-to-day matters.
✓· Identifying business and tax planning opportunities
✓· Assisting directors with specific assignments e.g
✓business planning, advisory and tax matters
✓Preparation of reports / computations etc, liaising with other professional advisers as required.
✓· Assisting directors in controlling work-in-progress [WIP] by progressing work to completion / billing point swiftly
✓Liaising with partners regarding WIP and raising bills / reporting on recoverability as required.
✓Key Skills
✓· Ability to complete accounts files quickly and efficiently
✓· Strong computer literacy
✓· Strong communication skills
✓· Ability to speak knowledgeably and advise on bookkeeping systems.
✓· Ability to manage workload, monitoring progress against deadlines and ensuring these are met.
✓· Ability to plan and progress workload and projects in an efficient, timely and cost effective manner by liaising with directors and supervising staff.
✓DESIRABLE SKILLS
✓· Knowledge of cloud accounting software and app-stacks.
✓Benefits
✓· Competitive salary
✓· Enhanced Employer Pension Contribution
✓· Holiday dependent of experience and study requirements 20/22 plus bank holidays
✓· Death in service
✓· Flexible working structure
✓· Employee benefits and reward platform
✓For more information please contact Danny Potter at Sewell Wallis or click on the link to apply.
✓To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on
✓Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.
✓Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions
✓We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions
✓With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester
✓Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions Show more →
✓Sewell Wallis are currently recruiting for a York based Chartered Accountants that are looking for a Business Services Associate / Semi Senior to join their fantastic team of accountants and tax specialists
✓Reporting into one of the Directors, you will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality financial information on annual, quarterly and monthly assignments.
✓The role would ideally suit someone who is currently studying towards their AAT or ACCA/CIMA qualification, however candidates with extensive experience of auditing accounts and bookkeeping will still be considered.
✓Key Responsibilities
✓· Preparing accounts and tax returns for corporate and unincorporated clients
✓· Providing exceptional levels of service to clients on a wide variety of areas, on a cost effective and timely basis.
✓· Responding to client queries, and those from third parties [e.g
✓HMRC] in a timely manner.
✓· Seeking to gain experience/ progress role by seeking to take more advanced work from directors.
✓· Developing knowledge of clients and their businesses as to become their first point of contact on day-to-day matters.
✓· Identifying business and tax planning opportunities
✓· Assisting directors with specific assignments e.g
✓business planning, advisory and tax matters
✓Preparation of reports / computations etc, liaising with other professional advisers as required.
✓· Assisting directors in controlling work-in-progress [WIP] by progressing work to completion / billing point swiftly
✓Liaising with partners regarding WIP and raising bills / reporting on recoverability as required.
✓Key Skills
✓· Ability to complete accounts files quickly and efficiently
✓· Strong computer literacy
✓· Strong communication skills
✓· Ability to speak knowledgeably and advise on bookkeeping systems.
✓· Ability to manage workload, monitoring progress against deadlines and ensuring these are met.
✓· Ability to plan and progress workload and projects in an efficient, timely and cost effective manner by liaising with directors and supervising staff.
✓DESIRABLE SKILLS
✓· Knowledge of cloud accounting software and app-stacks.
✓Benefits
✓· Competitive salary
✓· Enhanced Employer Pension Contribution
✓· Holiday dependent of experience and study requirements 20/22 plus bank holidays
✓· Death in service
✓· Flexible working structure
✓· Employee benefits and reward platform
✓For more information please contact Danny Potter at Sewell Wallis or click on the link to apply.
✓To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on
✓Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.
✓Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions
✓We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions
✓With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester
✓Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions Show more →