Bookkeeper / Business Services Assistant
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
What's the Role?
We are looking for a Senior Bookkeeper to join our team in Bristol.
This role is offering a highly competitive salary, progression within the team and study support if required.
We are a top 15 accountancy firm specialising within the owner managed business area across the UK. A well-established firm since the 1930's with an entrepreneurial and dynamic feel who are continuing to grow nationally as well as regionally.
This role will be a mix of administrative and client facing duties, and provides an opportunity to develop your client management experience, reporting and bookkeeping skills within a supportive and collaborative environment.
Duties include:
- Using cloud-based accounting software including – Xero, QuickBooks and SAGE 50.
- Processing payments, invoices, income and receipts, entering data into accounting software or spreadsheets from client’s physical records
- Reconciliation of client’s bank accounts and analysing client’s income and expenditure correctly in the profit and loss account and balance sheet.
- Regularly monitoring accounts payable and receivable to ensure it’s as up to date and as accurate as possible.
- Preparation of VAT returns for a range of clients and review client’s bookkeeping and VAT treatment where necessary.
- Manage a portfolio of clients and ensure all VAT records are requested, and returns prepared and submitted within deadlines.
- Prepare monthly/quarterly management accounts for clients of varying sizes, whilst gaining a good understanding of each client worked on.
- Prepare monthly/quarterly accounting journals relating to the management accounts and any additional journals including payroll journals.
- Produce financial statements including P&L accounts, cash flows, variance analysis and commentaries.
- Communicate with clients regarding queries.
- Prepare payment runs to pay client’s staff wages and supplier payments.
Your experience ideally will include:
- AAT or qualified by experience with 5+ years' experience
- Strong compliance VAT knowledge and can apply this knowledge to a variety of
- Extensive working use of Xero software (preferably Xero certified)
- Experience preparing management accounts and being confident analysing data to produce reports and working papers to support the management accounts.
- Accurate data entry skills with excellent knowledge of Excel, Word and Outlook
- Experience managing a client portfolio would be desirable
- Excellent written and verbal skills communicating with colleagues and clients.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office with excellent Excel skills
You will have the following skills:
- Strong organisational skills and time management
- Ability to work both independently, direct liaison with clients, as well as part of a team in both a supporting and supervising capacity
- Positive team player with a “can do” attitude
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Attention to detail
- Strong IT skills
The Haines Watts Way:
Our collective aspirations are simple:
- We strive to build and develop valued relationships as a trusted business advisor to our clients and connections.
- We strive to show passion for our work in helping clients achieve their goals and using our initiative to help solve problems.
- But above all, we strive to be authentic and inclusive as part of our DNA.
What you get back from us;
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays a year
- Extra day off for your birthday
- A relaxed working environment whilst maintaining a high level of professionalism.
- Excellent personal development programmes to support career growth opportunities
- Structured development as well as on the job practical training
- Flexible benefits reward package
- Working and learning directly from our Directors
- Ability to progress all the way to the top!
- Team social events
- ‘Dress for your diary’ dress code
If you are keen to secure a progressive role within a unique top 15 accountancy firm offering a great career progression, please apply today to find out more.
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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