associate Ilford, England
Job description
About us
We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a top 30 accounting firm working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.
We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.
Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.
Want to join our challenger firm? Read on.
The Role
An excellent opportunity has arisen for the right individual to join our Accounts Department. Davis Grant are a highly successful accountancy practice based in Ilford, East London who have recently merged with Gravita and are now part of the Gravita Group, a top 30 Accountancy practice. Our client base is hugely varied and includes clients in sectors from tech start-ups, property investment companies, large group companies and non-listed Plcs.
We are looking for the right candidate to have a solid foundation of accounting, tax and audit skills together with a high level of IT skills, particularly on Excel, which are vital to analyse data. All our team have direct contact with clients both through email and phone, and therefore excellent spoken and written English is imperative.
For those currently undertaking exams, as an ACCA gold-approved employer, we provide full study and training support and with regular reviews, training courses and mentoring we provide the framework and support structure for the right candidate to flourish.
Job role:
- Preparation of small and medium sized limited company and LLP accounts primarily from a trial balance as well as manual client records.
- Preparation of industry specific accounts including: solicitors accounts and charities
- Providing detailed discussion notes for client meetings on accounting and tax related aspects
- Direct client involvement – working with the client to solve queries and provide recommendations.
- Management accounts preparation and cash flow projections
- Bespoke tax and accounting technical projects as they arise
Requirements:
- ACCA qualified or part-qualified
- Knowledge of IRIS accounts production would be advantageous
- Good knowledge of bookkeeping packages including Sage and Xero
- Advanced knowledge of Excel and data analysis techniques
- Comfortable with complex reconciliations such as CIS and VAT
- Some previous audit exposure would be beneficial
- Superb written and spoken English
- Must be highly enthusiastic and self-motivated
- Can work as part of a team or independently
- Ability to drive would be useful
Your career with Gravita
When you join Gravita, we’ll support you on your own growth journey. We want to be the place you learn, grow and unlock your true potential.
We’ll work with you to build a progression plan to outline how you’ll grow at our company and everything we’ll do to help you get there. We’re also passionate about learning and development, to help you focus on your future.
At Gravita, we put people first. To ensure your wellbeing inside and outside of work, we regularly review and refresh our policies based on what matters most to our team. When you join Gravita you can expect:
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- 5% Employer pension contribution
- Enhanced parental and family leave
- Healthshield, reimbursing up to 100% of your everyday healthcare costs
- Employee assistance programme
- Extensive learning and development support including Continuing Professional Development (CPD) allowance
- Reimbursement of one professional subscription per year
- Season ticket loan
- Perkbox
Our values:
Having one set of values informs how our team works, as we strive towards our goals. It’s these values we look for in people who want to join our team.
We are ambitious
Determined and armed with a can-do attitude. We innovate, challenge the status quo and champion forward-thinking.
We value relationships
People are the core of our business. We build relationships rooted in integrity, commitment and trust.
We care deeply
We’re eager to do our best work – and ensure we’re conscientious, considerate and empathetic to everyone while doing so.
We communicate clearly
Communicating with respect and positivity is paramount. We encourage feedback to be clear, constructive and actionable.
We get things done
We work at pace but ensure we always do things the right way, believing that momentum and precision can work in harmony.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Gravita we’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. So if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You still may be the perfect candidate – and if not, there may be other roles you’d be suitable for.
