AAT employer vacancies

Job title: Audit Apprenticeship Programme

Job type: Apprenticeship

Salary: Competitive

Employer: KPMG

Location: Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham, Reading, Southampton, Watford  

Job details and application instructions: Visit the KPMG careers website for more information and to apply to this position

Closing date: No set closing date

Job title: Audit School Leaver Programme

Job type: Full-time

Salary: Competitive

Employer: Grant Thornton

Location: Birmingham, Cambridge, Gatwick, London, Leicester, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Reading, Sheffield

Job details and application instructions: Visit the Grant Thornton website for more information and to apply to this position.

Closing date: Applications for our school leaver roles are open until we fill our roles. We will have filled the majority of roles by the end of April 2020.

Job title: Assistant Accountant

Job type: Full time

Salary: £40,000 plus 10% pension contribution and private healthcare

Employer: Al-Marruna Limited

Location: Central London

Job details: 

• Prepare accounts for review for a variety of primarily offshore companies in this private office.
• Assist in financial administration, for example payments. 
• Assist in the management of a number of properties in the UK and abroad.
• Assist the principals with their business and family commitments.

Application instructions: Please apply by submitting a covering letter and CV to Marcus Fincham BSc ACMA CTA MSI, Company Secretary: shared@al-marruna.com. No agencies please.

Closing date: 31 May 2020

Job title: Accounts Assistant

Job type: Full-time

Salary: £21,000 - £22,000 plus benefits

Employer: Goodman Jones LLP

Location: London

Job details: Statutory Accounts and Corporation Tax office-based role. Possibility of transfer to ACA training contract after two years and completion of level 4. Full study support given.

Application instructions: Please send your covering letter and CV to recruitment@goodmanjones.com

Closing date: 10 June 2020

Job title: Audit and/or Accountancy Trainee Programme

Job type: Apprenticeship

Salary: Competitive

Employer: BHP LLP

Location: Sheffield, Chesterfield, Leeds, Cleckheaton, York

Job details: Visit the BHP website for more information and to apply

Closing date: 12 June 2020

Job title: AAT Trainee Accountant

Job type: Full-time, Apprenticeship

Salary: £19,600 per annum

Employer: BKL

Location: London, N3 1XW

Job details: Visit the BKL website for more information and to apply to this position.

Job reference: AAT Trainee Accountant BKL

Closing date: 30 June 2020

Job title: Accounts Assistant

Job type: Full-time apprenticeship

Salary: £9,555

Employer: Concept Vehicle Leasing

Location: Leatherhead

Job details: 

Concept Vehicle Leasing is currently recruiting for an accounting apprentice who would like to start a career in the accountancy profession. This is a unique apprenticeship role for someone who wants a long-term career without going down the university route.

They are a leasing broker who have been operating in the vehicle leasing and management sector for over 12 years.

This role will give the successful candidate an opportunity to work in a small professional team, reporting directly to the Finance Director to gain in-depth knowledge and insight into the finance department. The job will entail working closely with, and supporting, the finance team and you will therefore need to be highly motivated and have a commitment to study and further your knowledge and skillset.

As Accounts Assistant the main duties and responsibilities will include:

• processing purchase invoices for payment
• communicating and managing discrepancies to suppliers
• reconciling supplier statements
• updating databases and company logs
• assisting with the production of financial reports for month and year end reporting
• assisting with budget and forecast preparation
• provisions for accruals and prepayments
• resolving errors in financial reports and correcting faulty reporting methods
• bank reconciliations
• day to day bookkeeping
• processing business expenses
• general office duties to include filing, post, sending emails to clients, answering the telephone
• controlling credit and chasing debt
• updating cashflow movements
• assisting with group projects.

Requirements:

Desired skills:

• Ability to demonstrate initiative and self-motivation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Team player with the ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels
• Detail orientated with proven planning and organisational skills
• Computer literate and proficient in Microsoft Office, ie Outlook, Word and Excel applications

Personal qualities:

• Quick learner
• Hard working
• Willing to learn and take on responsibility
• Driven to overcome varied challenges
• Trustworthy, polite and professional

Desired qualifications: Maths and English Grade 4, C or above (GCSE or equivalent) is desirable but not essential.

Prospects: A full-time role may be offered upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, with the opportunity to study further and gain higher qualifications within the industry.

Application instructions: If you're interested in applying, please email your CV and a cover letter to phil.ayton@conceptvehicleleasing.co.uk and careers@conceptvehicleleasing.co.uk.

Closing date: 4 July 2020

Job title: AAT Level 3 Apprentice

Job type: Full-tine apprenticeship

Salary: £19,250 per annum

Employer: Blick Rothenberg Ltd

Location: London - Chandos Street & Argyll Street

Job details and application instructions: Visit the Blick Rothenberg website for more details and to apply for this position.

Job reference: AATL3BR

Closing date: No set closing date

Job title: Senior Accounts Assistant - Bookkeeping and Management Accounts team

Job type: Full-time

Salary: Competitive

Employer: Wylie & Bisset

Location: Glasgow

Job details: Visit the Wylie & Bisset website for more information about this position

Application instructions: Please apply in writing with your current CV to recruitment@wyliebisset.com

Closing date: No set closing date

Job title: Finance Manager

Job type: Missing Link

Salary: £30,507 - £32,029

Employer: Missing Link

Location: Central Bristol

Job details: We are a highly successful women’s charity working in the domestic abuse, sexual violence and mental health fields.

Main tasks of the role will include:

• Preparing financial statements and Monthly Management Accounts
• Full management of day to day financial operations totalling £5+ million per annum
• Gathering data to raise grant invoices and liaising with funders regarding payments; 
• Reconciling income on monthly basis
• Assist managers and budget holders to develop and monitor fully costed project proposals and budgets
• Prepare cost-centred expenditure reports as required and ensure correct apportionment of overheads.
• Analyse and collate data to ensure funders and housing providers monitoring and claiming requirements are met
• Monitor and oversee the work of the Finance team
• Maintain the organisation’s fixed asset register
• Oversee payroll and ensure that correct payments are made to staff, HMRC and pension providers and all relevant returns are submitted
• Create and process monthly salaries journal and reconciliations
• Calculate annual pension entitlement at the year end and ensure correct payments are made to pension providers in line with Organisational policies.
• Monitor the Organisation’s bank account balances and investment of the reserves in order to maximise the Organisation’s bank interest received
• Completing quarterly Registered Social Landlord monitoring reports 
• Annual rent charges review and liaising with Housing Benefit departments
• Provide monthly arrears and occupancy reports to the Senior Management team in order to enable them to reduce arrears and bad debts
• Assisting in improvements and developments to Financial systems

Benefits offered include:

• Up to 30 days annual leave (depending on length of service)
• 3 extra holidays including International Women’s Day
• Excellent development and training opportunities
• Employer pension contribution (minimum 5% of your gross salary)
• Mindful Employer Plus Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Wellness Awards
• Living Wage Employer

Visit the Missing Link website to find out more about Missing Link.

Job reference: FM2020

Application instructions: If you are interested in this role, please email your CV to HR at HR.Enquiries@missinglinkhousing.co.uk

The recruitment process will consist of an initial 1 hour written test.  If you are successful at this stage, we will contact you for a formal interview.

Closing date: No set closing date.

Job title: Finance Trainee

Job type: Full-time

Salary: Competitive

Employer: Allia Ltd

Location: Cambridge or Lodon

Job details: Visit the Allia Ltd website for more information about this position.

Application instructions: Please send a CV and covering letter to recruitment@allia.org.uk.

Closing date: Ongoing until find candidate.

Job title: Accounts Assistant

Job type: Full-time

Salary: £19,000-£23,000 per annum

Employer: Finling Associates Ltd

Location: Wimbledon, London

Job details: Training, Skills and Experience - Duties

Management accounting

• Day to day bookkeeping using Receipt-Bank and Xero (including both sales and purchase ledger, as well as all bank reconciliations).
• Period end procedures to bring clients’ accounts up to trial balance, ready for reports to be run, including a full set of reconciliations.
• Communicating with other team members.
• Communicating with clients.

VAT

• VAT returns.
• Reconciliation of VAT accounts.
• Statutory Accounts pre-preparation.
• Assistance with a structured pre-preparation process for each client.

Required

• Willing to be a team player, committed member of our team, punctual, courteous, and helpful at all times.
• Part qualified with AAT.
• Approximately one to two years’ accounting experience.

Application instructions: If you are interested in this role, please email your CV to lennys.santos@finling.net. A covering letter is not necessary but feel free to include it.

Closing date: No set closing date

Job title: Junior Accounts Assistant

Job type: Full-time

Salary: £17,000-£19,000 per annum

Employer: Finling Associates Ltd

Location: Wimbledon, London

Job details: Training, skills and experience - the role:

We offer an excellent range of staff benefits, and support for professional training and qualifications.

This role will provide additional support within the book-keeping and management accounts department:

• Processing purchase ledger, credit card and expense claim transactions through our software platform
• Reconciling bank entries in Xero
• Assistance with month end accounts preparation
• Assistance with VAT return preparation
• Supporting analysis, checking and reconciliation work for client

Experience and skills – essential. Skills required:

• Willing to be a team player, committed member of our team, punctual, courteous and helpful at all times.
• Highly IT literate.
• Interested in cloud based IT systems, and mobile apps.
• Able to take the initiative, but at the same time seek guidance whenever needed.
• GCSE (A-C) in Maths and English essential.
• 2 A Levels minimum.

Application instructions: If you are interested in this role, please email your CV to lennys.santos@finling.net. A covering letter is not necessary but feel free to include it.

Closing date: No set closing date.

Job title: Accounts Senior

Job type: Full or part-time considered

Salary: To be agreed

Employer: Ash Accounting

Location: Carlton, Nottingham

Job details: Ash Accounting are looking for some-one to join their established friendly accountancy practice. They would prefer someone who already has had experience working in a private practice undertaking some of the following: bookkeeping, preparing accounts, tax computations, VAT returns, payroll etc but will consider others. Ash Accounting are hoping to recruit someone who will see this as their long-term career move. Full support given for additional training.

Job reference: xxx

Application instructions: In the first instance please email your CV with a covering letter to sandra@ashaccounting.com.

Closing date: No set closing date

Job title: Takings Clerk

Job type: Full-time, 12 month fixed term contract

Salary: See "application instructions" below.

Employer: IVC Evidensia

Location: Keynsham, Bristol

Job details: IVC has a position available for a Takings Clerk in our mainland Europe Takings team. This is a great opportunity for someone currently studying AAT (or similar), able to work to a high degree of accuracy and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

The successful candidate will have responsibility for ensuring the timely, accurate and efficient processing of all daily takings information for new surgeries in the group, working closely with the local Finance team to achieve this.

What do they need from you?

• Ideally studying in accountancy
• Strong excel skills
• Experience in a finance background advantageous
• A flexible and friendly approach
• Strong attention to detail
• Proven ability to meet deadlines
• Great team player & work ethic

Job reference: METAKTC03

Application instructions: To apply and for the full job description, please contact Lesley: lesley.kondratowicz@ivcevidensia.com

Closing date: No set closing date

Job title: Accounts Apprentice – Trainee Finance Manager

Job type: Apprenticeship

Salary: £10,000–£14,000

Employer: AIMS Accountants for Business

Location: No. 3 City West Business Park, Gelderd Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12 6LN

Job details:

Provide assistance to ensure accurate and timely preparation of statutory financial statements, payroll and tax compliance for a range of clients. You will be the point of contact for your portfolio of clients, providing telephone support and secretarial support for the practice.

Vacancy description:

To complete all administrative and other ad hoc tasks requested by the line manager, including but not limited to:

• processing of clients' bookkeeping, including ledger inputting, bank reconciliations and processing VAT returns
• you will be given on the job training in payroll, and will be given an understanding of company accounts, management accounting and tax returns
• you will also be provided with an understanding in other areas in the firm including personal tax and company secretarial practices
• checking in and out client records and ensuring all required information has been received and maintains log
• ensuring all clients' books and records are returned upon completion of accounts
• taking ownership for all accounts archiving
• ensuring the accounts filing system is maintained daily
• completing bookkeeping timely and accurately on Sage, Xero and QuickBooks
• communicating any client issues to the Line Manager
• complying with all confidentiality rules
• supporting other departments where necessary.

During your first two years you will:

• learn how to use accounting software and systems in order to prepare financial statements for clients’ year end requirements
• develop an understanding of financial statements and the nature of the clients’ business
• co-ordinate with tax, payroll and audit hub to deliver client information as a whole
• IXBRL tagging
• manage your own client portfolio
• self-review your own-work, ensuring minimal review points are raised by managers
• have confident knowledge of accounting standards which you apply to a given set of year end financials
• carry out the tax computation for simpler clients.

The person:

• Interpersonal skills; the ability to build client relationships with a foundation of trust and responsibility.
• Analytical skills; the ability to think critically, research and solve problems.
• Attention to detail and strong time-management skills.
• Commitment to self-development and learning.

Minimum requirements: B in English Language and Maths.

Package: AIMS offers core benefits to all employees – up to 30 days' holiday, pension, life assurance and income protection insurance. Beyond that they want you to be able to choose benefits that you want, rather than have all benefits chosen for you.

Hours: 30 hours (1 day at college)

Application instructions: All applications to be sent to lucybrennan@fi.co.uk. Applications must include a covering letter and CV.

Closing date: Ongoing