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Location

Ashbourne, Derbyshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Location: Ashbourne - Hybrid

Contract: Full time (37.5 hours a week)

Are you someone with management experience or seeking the next step up into such a role, from perhaps a Senior Accountant?

As an Assistant Accounts Manager, you will be responsible for a portfolio of non-audit clients. You will also be responsible for managing senior and junior accountants and assisting in their development. The role involves liaising with our management team and clients to prioritise your workload and ensure deadlines and client expectations are met. You will also be expected to build strong internal relationships with colleagues from other service lines to ensure that our clients receive the highest standard of service.

The important work you will be doing:

Your day-to-day duties and key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Reviewing the work of seniors and juniors, including statutory accounts, tax returns, management accounts and VAT returns with clients in a variety of sectors
• Management of workflow
• Prioritising workload effectively to meet set deadlines and budgets
• Meeting with clients to discuss and advise on their business and financial affairs
• Preparation of statutory accounts, management accounts and tax computations
• Working with varying software packages including CCH, Sage, and Xero
• Training of junior accountants and liaising with study providers
• Able to carry out ad hoc assignments

The skills and experience you will bring:

• ACA / ACCA qualified or qualified by experience
• Experience with limited companies and sole traders - both annual accounts and management accounts
• Corporation tax knowledge
• Strong prioritisation and organisational skills in meeting deadlines along with attention to detail
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication across all business levels
• Supporting juniors
• Robust IT skills including Excel, and any ERP systems experience (Sage, Xero etc)

Why PKF Smith Cooper?

Our company culture, built on our values – Engage, Empower and Excel – encourages initiative, personal growth, and collaboration. Every team member is appreciated and celebrated; a notion embodied in our Kudos Reward Scheme

The firm’s Partners, who remain actively invested in the development of employees, will both support and champion your professional development and progression

We work with ambitious businesses of different sizes across a variety of sectors, so no two jobs are the same

We are multi-award-winning accountants and business advisors, ranked the 12th biggest firm by UK fee income in the Accountancy Age Top 50+50

Our Ashbourne office is a team of 20 people across the disciplines and therefore benefits from being a friendly working environment with a small office feel, whilst having the interaction with and expertise available from a much larger firm. You could say that it has the best of both worlds!

PKF International

As an active member of PKF International, we are part of a large global network of legally independent accounting firms.

Located in the 5 fastest growing global markets, we have a ground presence in 150 countries and span across many jurisdictions.

An ambitious, future-focused network, PKF provides a comprehensive range of services. Operating in unison with member firms across the world, we are able to share our ideas, expertise, and specialist resources to better serve our clients, delivering highly personalised services and global connectivity through our client-centric culture. 

What's in it for you?

Our benefits package has been designed around our people and shaped by our values. As part of Team PKF Smith Cooper, here are some of the things you can expect:

• A working environment that empowers you to perform at your best, through our flexible working policy and dress for your diary scheme
• Time to do what matters to you – 25 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays, the option to reduce annual hours for additional annual leave, and your birthday off, on us. Long-serving employees can also request a sabbatical, giving you the chance to make truly unforgettable memories
• Rewards for those who actively embrace and embody our values and culture through our Kudos Reward Scheme
• Regular social events and annual, company-wide away days, giving you the opportunity to engage with colleagues across your division and office, as well as the wider firm
• Bonus referral schemes for introducing new talent or clients so that when we benefit, you do too
• Life doesn’t stop at the end of the working day and neither do our benefits. We also offer life assurance, discounts on a huge variety of retailers through the PKF Smith Cooper Rewards Scheme, and cashback on healthcare (including dental visits, physiotherapy etc) through Healthshield

How to apply?

Apply now if you believe you have what we are looking for! Even if you do not tick 100% of the boxes, we would encourage you to apply. To do so, please upload a copy of your CV and a cover letter to our job portal. 

Should you have any questions, please contact a member of the HR team - email [email protected] or call 01332 332021. 

Please note that whilst we welcome and encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply for our vacancies, we are unfortunately unable to accept applications from candidates requiring a visa to work in the UK.

Please no agencies unless we have contacted you directly.

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