Due to continuing growth, we are seeking an office junior to work and progress within our practice.
You will benefit from working in a friendly, hands on environment whereby the staff are highly focused on supporting one another to offer excellent service to their clients.
We’re looking for a person who wants to make a real difference to the future of our clients, a person who enjoys client interaction and who is able to meet deadlines.
Job Description
Your duties in this broad ranging role will include working on sole traders through to limited companies and your specific responsibilities will involve:
- Effective and welcoming reception/telephony duties.
- Providing excellent customer care; providing refreshments as required.
- General office duties: filing; inputting; photocopying; receiving deliveries; post etc.
- Make sure public areas of reception are tidy
- Inputting financial and customer data onto systems as required
- Posting website and social media updates
- Taking photographs for blogs and websites
- Supporting varied marketing and PR activities
- Help to set up rooms for meetings and presentations including IT support as necessary
- Accounts preparation – Assisting with and ultimately responsible for preparing sole trader, partnership and limited company accounts from information supplied by clients
- The candidate will be given training on the use of the Firm’s software
- Undertake any other duties, as requested by your Line Manager
- Accounts preparation – Assisting with and ultimately responsible for preparing sole trader, partnership and limited company accounts from information supplied by clients
- VAT returns – Preparing quarterly VAT returns from information supplied by clients
- Corporation Tax returns – Preparing company Tax returns based on the accounts prepared
- Personal Tax returns – Preparing personal Tax returns from information supplied by clients
- To assist clients with bookkeeping services at their premises or our main office (under supervision initially)
- Prepare weekly, four weekly and monthly payroll for clients
- Confirmation statements – prepare confirmation statements based on information supplied by clients
- Undertake any other duties, as requested by your Line Manager
This job description is a guide to the work you will initially be required to undertake. It may be changed from time to time to meet the changing needs of the company.
Desired Skills:
- Passion for accounting with an understanding, knowledge and some experience of accounting techniques.
- Knowledge/experience of bookkeeping and accountancy software and packages.
- Able to communicate effectively on a one-to-one basis, in groups, through presentations and through formal reports.
- Excellent writing, editing and proofing skills.
- Outgoing and lively personality
- Motivated and enthusiastic
- Efficient Administration skills
- High level interpersonal skills – Ability to build successful, mutually beneficial business relationships.
- Communication skills – Able to communicate with people at various levels of knowledge face to face, over the telephone and in writing.
- Experience within Outlook, Word and Excel would be beneficial
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Excellent time keeping skills
- Excellent monitoring and record keeping skills
- Ability to work with a diverse range of people
- The ability to work alone and as part of a team
- Ability to work efficiently under pressure.
- Planning, organisational and time management skills.
- Professional attitude and appearance
- Attention to detail
- A full, current UK driving licence
Contract type: Permanent subject to 3 month probationary period.
Rate of pay: NMW to £15 per hour, depending on experience
Hours of work: 16 hours per week
Location: Sheffield
Application Deadline: 1 October 2017
If you would like to apply for this position then please complete and email the Application form to info@nicholsonandco.co.uk by the deadline of application date.