Junior Administrative Assistant London, 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.
Our focus on SME and small-cap listed clients means variety and learning for our team. We offer early exposure to CFOs and CEOs where you can be involved in interesting conversations and complex issues; you're not just a small cog in an enormous machine. You’ll have the opportunity to work across audits from start to finish, and make a real impact on clients whilst building strong technical knowledge across all areas and developing project and client leadership skills. All in a positive, supportive and diverse team.
Want to join our challenger firm? Read on.
The Role
- Assisting the Trust and Estate Manager to administer Trusts, Estates and Probates, including gathering documentation on Probate and Estate cases, and dealing with banks and other third parties.
- Preparation of beneficiary tax returns/ reclaims and forms R185.
- Registering Trusts and Estates for the Trust Registration Service.
- Submitting annual Trust Registration Service updates.
- Assisting in the preparation of basic Trust tax returns
- Assisting in the preparation of Estates.
Who you are
- Good communication skills and confident telephone manner.
- Enthusiastic to learn and be involved in the team.
- Great organisation skills essential
Requirements
- Accountancy experience is beneficial but not necessary.
- Some office experience would be beneficial.
- Microsoft Excel and Word proficient.
Progression
Potential to progress to ATT or STEP and to become more involved in the technical aspects of the taxation of Trusts and Estates.
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
- Enhanced sick leave
- Extensive learning and development support including Continuing Professional Development (CPD) allowance
- Reimbursement of one professional subscription per year
- Season ticket loan
- Perkbox
- Hybrid working arrangement (3 days in the office) and flexible starting/finishing hours
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.
The process:
We’ve developed an open and inclusive interview process so you know exactly what to expect.
Our 3 step interview process:
- Our internal talent team reviews all applications and will reach out to those who best fit the role
- You’ll have at least two interviews with people from your prospective team so you can get to know each other and talk about your experience
- If the interviews go well, there may be a task element, depending on the role you’re applying for – this is your chance to prove your skills
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.
