Part Qualified Trainee Accountant

'Recruiting for your future success’

Our client is a firm of accountants based in Bury St Edmunds, who provide businesses with personal, forward looking advice, based on their unique requirements. They blend traditional values with a modern approach. They now have an opening for a part qualified trainee to join their team and to learn how to provide an above and beyond service to their clients. Offering flexible/hybrid working, they are an employer who value their staff.

Salary negotiable DOE | Bury St Edmunds | Mon-Fri 08:30-17:00 | Hybrid working | Practice experience essential | Ideally 1-2 years into studying AAT (or equivalent) | Experience with VAT, book-keeping, simple accounts and tax | Great, collaborative working environment

As the candidate trains and progresses they will cover all aspects of client jobs from start to finish. The successful candidate will be an ambitious, customer focused individual who enjoys using cloud-based software to give their clients the right information to run their businesses.

Duties (include but are not limited to)

• Managing the accounts for a portfolio of clients- once training progresses
• Drafting statutory accounts and sole trader accounts for manager review
• Completing / submitting VAT returns
• Drafting company and personal tax returns for clients
• Building effective, transparent working relationships with clients
• Providing ongoing support and advice to clients, to go the extra mile

Person Specification

• 1 - 2 years into an AAT qualification (or similar)
• Experience working within an accountancy practice essential
• XERO experience essential
• FreeAgent experience preferred
• Customer focused with a can-do attitude
• Individual looking for a job where they will learn all aspects of dealing with a clients affairs to become a rounded accounts and tax adviser

LIGHTHOUSE PERSONNEL LTD ARE A RECRUITMENT AGENCY WORKING ON BEHALF OF A CLIENT.

PLEASE NOTE WE RECEIVE A LARGE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS PER VACANCY AND UNFORTUNATELY CANNOT RESPOND TO ALL APPLICANTS. THEREFORE, IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD FROM US WITHIN A MONTH FROM APPLICATION DATE, IT IS LIKELY THAT YOU HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL.

If you have been successful, we will contact you by the phone and begin taking you through our step by step recruitment process, doing our utmost to ensure the role is right for you, ascertaining your suitability in the process. This process will all be explained on initial contact.