What the role is
PSC Senior Accountant
Working Hours 37.5 hours, Monday - Friday
Contract Type Permanent Employee
Location Lytham St Annes
The role of a Senior Accountant, is to take care of a portfolio of clients, working with the team to deliver a compliant, professional, and high-quality service to the clients. As a Senior Accountant you will be a ‘go to’ person and will work closely with management to ensure that service delivery is the best it can be, looking for ways in which we can improve, to enhance our client’s journey. As a Senior Accountant, you work will not always be reviewed, so you must be confident in your ability, up to date with all current legislation to ensure the that the work is sent to the client ‘right first time’
Role Responsibilities:
Working Hours 37.5 hours, Monday - Friday
Contract Type Permanent Employee
Location Lytham St Annes
The role of a Senior Accountant, is to take care of a portfolio of clients, working with the team to deliver a compliant, professional, and high-quality service to the clients. As a Senior Accountant you will be a ‘go to’ person and will work closely with management to ensure that service delivery is the best it can be, looking for ways in which we can improve, to enhance our client’s journey. As a Senior Accountant, you work will not always be reviewed, so you must be confident in your ability, up to date with all current legislation to ensure the that the work is sent to the client ‘right first time’
Role Responsibilities:
- Responsible for a portfolio of clients
- Reviewing work that has been prepared by assistants, and Accountants.
- Preparing accounts, VAT returns, corporation tax returns and any other compliance work needed for filing at Companies House and HMRC.
- Ownership of compliance across your own portfolio, maintaining a thorough review process for all work, ensuring a consistent and compliant service is delivered and statutory filing dates are met.
- Bookkeeping for clients using Free Agent, and from time-to-time Xero and QuickBooks.
- Training Junior members of the team.
- Dealing with all communications for clients, both written and verbally.
- Dealing with the inbound and outbound post, and ensuring it is dealt with accordingly.
- Making sure that the clients are invoiced at the right time, and for any additional work.
- Tax planning with clients. • Ensuring the clients are registered for the relevant taxes with HMRC.
- Making sure Companies House records are kept up to date and accurate for the clients, ensuring that any forms needed are completed and filed at Companies House.
- Processing payroll for clients
- Covering for colleagues for period of illness, holidays, to include email cover for clients.
- Training new starters and accountants in the team.
- Supporting and covering the Team Manager and other team members, during periods of absence.