Junior Practice Accountant

Are you in the early stages of your accountancy career with 12 years experience in practice and a real interest in developing your bookkeeping and client skills?

If youve started building your grounding in bookkeeping and VAT and are now looking for a supportive accountancy firm where you can grow, this could be a great next step.

Why this Junior Practice Accountant role is different

Youll be joining a well-established, traditional, and highly respected local accountancy practice in Beverley with a long-standing, loyal client base. Youll be part of a small, close-knit, and supportive team, working for a business that prides itself on personal, professional service.

Our client is creating an n environment where youre encouraged to learn, ask questions, and build confidence.

This is not a high-pressure, corporate environment. Its somewhere you can:

• Get to know clients over time and understand how their businesses work
• Build your skills on a steady but varied portfolio
• Work closely with experienced colleagues who can support your development

What the Junior Practice Accountant job involves

• Assist with bookkeeping for a variety of clients (sole traders, partnerships, and limited companies)
• Help prepare VAT returns and management accounts
• Reconcile accounts and maintain accurate financial records
• Liaise with clients by email and phone to request information and answer straightforward queries
• Support the wider team with ad-hoc accounting and administrative duties
• Youll start with tasks that match your current level of experience, with the opportunity to take on more responsibility as your confidence grows.

Skills Required

• You have around 12 years experience working in an accountancy practice in a bookkeeping/accounts role
• You have a basic understanding of bookkeeping principles and VAT and want to build on that
• Youre comfortable using accounting software (e.g. Xero, Sage, QuickBooks) or similar and are happy to learn new systems
• Youre organised, willing to learn, and take pride in getting the details right
• You have a friendly, professional manner and enjoy helping clients and colleagues

Other Information

• Full-time role, Monday to Friday
• Free on-site car parking
• 20 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with length of service
• Pension
• Occasional opportunity to work from home
• New staff benefits being introduced later this year
• The stability of a long-established firm with a fantastic local reputation
• A supportive, friendly team environment where your development and contribution are valued

If youre a motivated junior practice accountant or early-career bookkeeper with 12 years practice experience and youre looking for somewhere you can grow, learn, and build long-term client relationships, wed be delighted to hear from you.

This vacancy is being advertised through KD Recruitment Limited who are operating as an Employment Agency.

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