About us
Founded in 2001 by Andy Moore, Moore Scarrott is an innovative and agile firm of Chartered Accountants and Tax Advisors with three offices across the Southwest, and a national client presence from Cornwall to Scotland. Nationally recognised as experts in the Veterinary, Rural and Healthcare sectors, we represent a wide range of owner managed businesses.
Due to our continued success and growth, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious, motivated, and dynamic Qualified Accountant to join our Veterinary Team.
About the Role
This exciting new role will be a key member of the veterinary team, working to support the client portfolio managers and to provide training and guidance to junior members of staff.
The successful candidate will work with a wide range of businesses to understand their needs and will have the opportunity to build a portfolio of clients. This position would be ideal for an individual who has developed and trained within a practice environment and is now seeking a fresh challenge in the form of further development and managerial responsibilities.
The role will also incorporate the reviewing of accounts produced by juniors and the calculation of both personal and business tax. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their commercial skills and would be involved in providing pro-active advice to clients of a range of business topics.
As such the ideal applicant will be commercially sharp, possess a passion for serving clients to the highest possible standard and have a minimum of 5 years practice experience. It should however be noted that experience of working with clients within the veterinary sector is not essential but drive, and a passion certainly is.
In return, for the right applicant, the firm offers an environment where strong performance is recognised and rewarded financially, and also a real prospect of developing and growing their career in a wide range of exciting directions in the future.
Responsibilities
To produce full accounts for a portfolio of clients:
- Provide proactive, commercially valuable advice and assistance to clients.
- Share the responsibility of developing junior staff and best practice in accounts functions.
- Prepare account files from sole trader, LLP and limited companies, for review by a manager/partner.
- Produce corporation tax returns
- Deliver excellent client service
- Develop client facing skills and commercial awareness
- Handle client queries and proactively advise them on a wide range of financial and commercial matters
- Monitor client billing and work in progress levels
- Share in staff management and development responsibilities for the junior members of the team
- To review the work of junior staff members pre-partner review.
- To carry out adhoc exercises such as investigations, due diligence and financial projections
- Attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task, work under pressure and meet deadlines required.
Qualifications
- Hold a recognised professional accounting qualification, ACA or ACCA preferred
- Have 5 years’ previous experience of working within a practice environment
- Possess general IT proficiency including the use of Microsoft Office packages
- Have previous experience of using a computerised accounting software, preferably Sage and Xero.
- Have good organisational, interpersonal and communication skills
- Possess a high standard of ethics, both professional and personal
- Be able to work well in a successful and busy team
- Have excellent communication skills
- Have a high level of professionalism.
- Be able to organise own time and workload efficiently and effectively
- Having an attitude characterised as enthusiastic and positive, self-motivated and focused
Pay Range and Compensation Package
Moore Scarrott believes in a culture where strong performance is recognised and rewarded, and as such, reviews the performance and salaries every 12 months.
In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer discretionary performance bonuses, contributions to a pension scheme, death in service benefit, eyecare and flu vouchers and a range of other flexible benefits.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
Experience:
- in-practice accountancy work: 5 years (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- ACA or ACCA accountancy qualification (preferred)
Work Location: In person
