Long-established small firm of Chartered Accountants near Dartford is recruiting for this full-time role to work enthusiastically as part of our great team, covering a range of responsibilities. We are a hardworking, close knit, and fun team of ten providing Accountancy, Tax, and Business Advisory services for 300+ clients.

The role includes the following duties but is not limited to:

• Preparing client VAT returns from prime entry records.
• Preparing client CIS returns.
• Preparing client bank reconciliations and writing up client records as necessary.
• Data processing for clients on a regular basis
• Managing regular client bookkeeping for a portfolio of clients, in many formats including Quickbooks, Sage & Excel.
• Liaising with clients autonomously to obtain records and responses to queries in good time to meet deadlines and manage own workload.
• Assist with administrative duties as necessary.
• Responsibility for regular client invoicing, learning our time recording and monitoring systems, running the function, and dealing with all
aspects through to credit control.
• Responsibility for our secure online portal, uploading and downloading documents, monitoring approval responses, and following up.
• Government gateway set-up for new clients and integration with all internal systems.

Candidates must -
• have experience in using accounting software including Quickbooks and Sage;
• be proficient with Office 365, including good Excel skills;
• have previous bookkeeping experience, ideally in a practice environment;
• have excellent communication skills including client care and understanding;
• well organised with an eye for attention to detail;
• be calm, reliable and team goal driven; flexible to support the business’ needs, and
• AAT qualified or qualified by experience.

Written applications should set out all academic achievements, relevant experience and personal skills and attributes considered useful.