SME Practice Accountant
Our company, a well-established accountancy practice in Galway City Centre, is seeking to hire an experienced Accountant to join our team.
The ideal candidate will be fully qualified with audit experience. You will join a small accountancy practice in Galway, working on accounts preparation, income tax, compliance, and audit.
You will manage a client portfolio of circa 20+ large, well-known businesses in Galway. This is a permanent role, ideally 5-days per week onsite, though with adhoc flexibility given as needed to work from home.
Key Responsibilities:
* Liaise with clients to manage workflow of receipt of accounting records and co-ordinate jobs to be done.
* Be aware of client cases ahead and contact clients to schedule the cases coming in.
* Carry out audits on SME cases, including planning, materiality, field work and final reporting to clients.
* Liaise with clients' bookkeepers to coach them around areas for improvement and assist with journals / adjustments to accounting systems.
* Prepare sets of accounts from clients' records, with supporting files and schedules.
* Adjust clients' records and make recommendations for changes where necessary.
* Prepare corporation tax computations and returns for ROS filing, understanding where tax addbacks or close company surcharge etc need to apply.
* Make manual payroll changes on ROS / Thesaurus as required.
* Be comfortable with disclosures for FRS financial statements using Sage.
* Be comfortable with CORE and routine CRO filings.
Requirements:
* Fully or Part Qualified Accountant with Audit experience.
* Small Practice trained – desired but not essential.
* Strong MS Suite skills.
* Comfortable using various client software booking keeping systems (TAS, Xero, Quickbooks and Sage).
* Excellent prioritisation skills to understand various client deadlines.