SME Practice Accountant - County Galway, Ireland - Cpl

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    Cpl County Galway, Ireland

    Found in: beBee S2 IE - 2 weeks ago

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    Full time
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    SME PRACTICE ACCOUNTANT

    My client, a well-established, Accountancy Practice in Galway City Centre, seeks to hire a new Accountant to join their team. The ideal candidate, will be fully qualified with audit experience, though part-qualified candidates with audit will be considered also.. You will join a small accountancy practice in Galway, being exposed to accounts preparation, income tax, compliance, and audit. Working within a small team, you will own 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. This will suit a candidate who wants to work with quality clients and wants a normal, work life balance, finishing at 17:30 every afternoon, even due tax deadline season

    RESPONSIBILITIES:

    Portfolio management


    • Be able to liaise with several clients to manage workflow of receipt of accounting records and co-ordinate jobs to be done.


    • Need to be aware of client cases ahead and to be contacting and arranging with their portfolio of clients to schedule the cases coming in.


    • Client cases could include hotels, charities, construction, schools, retail professional services.

    Audit


    • Carry out an audit on SME cases – Input required in planning, materiality, field work and final reporting to client.


    • Liaise with client's bookkeeper to coach them around areas for improvement and assist bookkeeper with journals / adjustments to accounting system.


    • From audit - Recommendations for improvement in accounting process of client

    Accounts preparation


    • Prepare a set of Accounts from client's records with supporting file and schedules.


    • A fully referenced accounts file with supporting schedules is the base line to each set of financial statements.


    • Adjustments to clints records and recommendations for changes where necessary

    Taxation


    • Prepare client corporation tax computation and return for ROS filing for both corporate taxes and personal taxes, understanding where tax addbacks or close company surcharge etc need apply.

    ROS


    • Experience using ROS is required for filing corporation and personal tax returns.

    Payroll


    • Make manual payroll changes on ROS / Thesaurus as required.

    Financial Statements


    • Be comfortable with disclosures for FRS 102 financial statements using Sage.

    CRO


    • Be comfortable with the CORE and routine CRO filings.

    REQUIREMENNTS


    • Fully or Part Qualified Accountant with Audit


    • Small Practice trained – Desired, but not essential.


    • Strong MS Suite Skills - Essential


    • Comfortable using various client software booking keeping systems - TAS, Xero, Quickbooks and Sage.


    • Excellent prioritisation skills needed to understand various client deadlines.

    For more information, please contact for a discreet conversation.

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