Fantastic opportunity to work with a firm where your work will be noticed!
Working for a well established, forward-thinking and growing independent firm in Cambridge, the job is a general accounting role involving mainly audit work, with occasional accounts preparation and taxation computations. Work will be detailed and you may provide a supervisory role to students in respect of other client work. The client base is very varied.
Main duties include:
1. Planning and budgeting of jobs prior to commencement, obtaining partner agreement to plans before starting assignments.
2. To present a complete file for review with accounts and tax computations drafted, all audit programmes signed off and queries listed.
3. Where you are responsible for supervising a job carried out by other staff, you are expected to monitor progress (including time and budget constraints) and highlight problems to your manager/partner as they arise.
4. Work of junior staff under your control should be reviewed on completion of assignments before the completed file is passed to your manager/partner for final review. Junior staff should be fully briefed/appraised on the nature and purposed of work allocated to them. You should ensure junior staff have the necessary skills and help to develop them through on the job training and supervision.
5. All routine correspondence should be dealt with on a timely basis, any delays being notified to your manager/partner.
6. To identify opportunities and assist Managers/Partners in successfully marketing the firm by highlighting additional services to existing clients and introducing new clients to the firm.