Are you an experienced accountant looking for a role where you can grow alongside an ambitious specialist practice?
Accounts Navigator is a growing, modern and digital accountancy practice providing Complete Finance Management services to nurseries and Early Years businesses across the UK.
We are looking for two experienced Senior Accounts Associates to join our team on a part-time basis.
These roles are ideal for accountants who want to initially work reduced hours while steadily increasing their hours as new work and clients join the practice. Our intention is for both positions to develop into full-time roles as the business continues to grow.
This is not simply a year-end accounts position.
We work closely with nursery owners, founders and management teams to help them understand their numbers, improve profitability, manage cash flow, control staffing and operational costs, plan for tax and make informed business decisions.
The successful candidates must therefore be technically capable, commercially aware, organised and confident communicating financial information in plain English.
About Accounts Navigator
Accounts Navigator is a multi-award-winning accountancy practice with more than 20 years of experience supporting individuals, entrepreneurs and growing businesses.
We are developing our position as a specialist Nursery Complete Finance Management Practice, providing nurseries and Early Years businesses with all the accounting, tax, bookkeeping, payroll, management reporting and financial advisory services they need as they grow.
Our aim is to become an extension of each nursery’s leadership and finance team, rather than simply preparing accounts after the financial year has ended.
We help our nursery clients to:
- Understand their income, expenditure, margins and profitability
- Calculate and monitor their true cost per childcare hour
- Manage funded and privately paid childcare income
- Review staffing costs and deployment
- Prepare and monitor cash flow forecasts
- Understand management accounts
- Plan for VAT, PAYE, Corporation Tax and other liabilities
- Improve systems, processes and financial controls
- Make confident and informed growth decisions
The Role
As a Senior Accounts Associate, you will manage a portfolio of clients and oversee the delivery of accurate, timely and commercially useful accounting services.
You will be responsible for reviewing work, meeting internal and statutory deadlines, communicating with clients and identifying areas where their financial performance or processes could be improved.
You will work closely with the Founder and CEO, the wider Accounts Navigator team and our specialist bookkeeping, payroll and administration functions.
As a team member, you will work in a digital non-paper environment with the latest software and apps to complete customer tasks and deliver an excellent service to our clientele. You will work remotely but have one to two in-person days per month in either Cuffley or Romford
Expect quarterly team, events so that you and your new work buddies get to know you inside out, so you become a valuable member of the Accounts Navigator family.
From day one you will receive a salary up to £45,000 per annum depending on experience with 10% commissions for customer introductions. After your probation period, you will receive private healthcare, pension contributions, and bonuses.
The main responsibilities for the Client Manager / Senior Accounts Associate:
· The first point of contact for all your clients
· Have a bank of client fees of a minimum of 300K (full-time equivalent)
· Qualified ACCA/MAAT
· Ability to deal with all client queries without assistance from colleagues – other than the Director although this should be minimal.
· Encouraged to delegate work to your pod where possible.
· Zero level tolerance for errors in any work sent to clients that you have prepared or reviewed.
· Focus on client retention.
· Training of team members
· Preparation of accounts, corporate and personal tax returns to review stage with minimal review points.
· Be supportive of the senior managers in fulfilling their duties, enabling them to focus on the business from a strategic perspective.
· Identify changes in legislation, practice or software and communicating those to your pod.
· Monitoring your pod’s KPI’s weekly, ensuring that they feel supported and offer help where necessary for them to achieve them.
· Always looking for opportunities to improve the profit margin by driving turnover through renewals, extra work orders, converting prospects to clients and driving efficiencies
· Monitoring tasks and workflow templates across all internal software regularly to ensure it us up to date, accurate and free from errors.
· Review of management accounts so they can be sent straight to the client.
· Review of basic share change paperwork and precreation of advanced share paperwork
· Preparation of accountant’s reference for clients
· Dealing with ad-hoc client queries
· Identify areas of improvement in client records and tax planning opportunities.
· Identify new services to assist clients.
· To hit quantity and quality KPI’s as set out by the business.
· Provide feedback to junior team members when errors identified in bookkeeping, management accounts and year end accounts.
· The highest level of technical ability within the practice is expected in this role.
· Manage pods and be responsible for allocating work to your pod to enable them to hit their personal/pod KPI’s weekly, ensuring they feel supported and offer help where necessary for them to achieve them.
· Review all work completed where necessary.
· Ensure the quality of work is to the highest standard for the business as a whole.
· Ensuring tasks and workflow templates across all internal software is up-to-date, accurate and free from errors.
· Conversations with prospects with a view to converting them to clients.
· Act as a barrier between staff/clients and the director for any queries.
· Identifying problem clients and communicating with the Director.
If this sounds like YOU then please apply with a CV along with a covering letter clearly stating:
i) Why do you think you are suitable for this job?
ii) How can you add value to the business?
iii) When is the earliest you can join? (Immediate joining is possible).
Pay: Up to £45,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Work from home
Application question(s):
- Are you ACCA or MAAT Qualified?
- Will you be able to reliably commute to Potters Bar EN6 4RY or Romford RM1 3NH twice a month for this job?
Experience:
- Practice: 3 years (preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Potters Bar EN6 4RY
