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 experience will also be considered. 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 ad hoc flexibility given as needed to work from home. This will suit a candidate who wants to work with quality clients and desires a normal work-life balance, finishing at 17:30 every afternoon, even during tax deadline season!
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Portfolio management:Be able to liaise with several clients to manage the workflow of receipt of accounting records and coordinate jobs to be done.Need to be aware of client cases ahead and to contact and arrange with their portfolio of clients to schedule the cases coming in.Client cases could include hotels, charities, construction, schools, and retail professional services.Audit:Carry out an audit on SME cases – Input required in planning, materiality, fieldwork, and final reporting to the client.Liaise with the client's bookkeeper to coach them around areas for improvement and assist the bookkeeper with journals/adjustments to the accounting system.From audit - Recommendations for improvement in the accounting process of the 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 baseline to each set of financial statements.Adjustments to clients' 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 to 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.REQUIREMENTS Fully or Part Qualified Accountant with Audit experience.Small Practice trained – Desired, but not essential.Strong MS Suite Skills - Essential.Comfortable using various client software bookkeeping systems - TAS, Xero, Quickbooks, and Sage.Excellent prioritization skills needed to understand various client deadlines.For more information, please contact ****** for a discreet conversation.
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