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Part Qualified Accountant
Part Qualified Practice Accountant / Trainee Accountant
Salary: Commensurate with experience and level of training/qualification

Hours: 8.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday

Location: We work from brand new, purpose-built offices on the Medway City Estate. Whilst we are at the entrance of the Estate and do not get any issues with traffic, unfortunately, public transport is poor, and so you will be required to hold a driving licence – free on-site parking is provided.

About Us
Professional Trust Group is a small but growing firm of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW), Tax & Business Advisors that focus on providing full services to a varied portfolio of owner-managed businesses. Clients range in size up to a turnover of £5m.

Whilst we offer everything you would expect from a firm of Chartered Accountants, but we’re a bit different to a lot of typical ‘high street’ firms. We have grown the practice by becoming key partners with our clients - specialising in providing a fully outsourced financial and accounting solution - saving businesses the costs and hassle of running a finance department whilst being able to trust everything is being handled independently and correctly.

We provide regular consultancy and business advisory services based upon solid financial information prepared by us, whilst trying to inject a bit of personality along the way to keep our clients interested and focussed.

We have clients in different sectors, including retail, ecommerce, app development, fintech, plant hire, construction, medical, professional services and more.

We’re an authorised training employer with the ICAEW.

The Role
You will be involved in all aspects of client work, with progression in the near term to become a Client Manager – responsible for the day-to-day management of a portfolio of clients and managing their deadlines as necessary.

As an ICAEW authorised training employer, you will be involved with all aspects of accountancy, including accounts preparation, personal tax, corporation tax, VAT, payroll, management accounts and much more.

You will be included with client meetings and have exposure to client advisory and consultancy work.

Person Specification
Ideally, you will be part qualified, having started your route towards your AAT or ACA qualifications. We will issue you with a training contract (apprenticeship) and provide you with in-house and external training, for you to progress through to that of a qualified chartered accountant (ACA) if you wish to do so.

You will possess the following:

· Confident, with an enthusiastic, proactive, and hands-on attitude to work, with a friendly and positive disposition

· Ability to communicate in an effective and professional manner

· A high level of detail and accuracy

· Excellent written English

· Natural interest for business, finance, and accounting

· Be self-motivated to progress and achieve with your training and skills

· Good timekeeper, with a flexible and committed approach to work

Required Qualifications

· A minimum of, or equivalent to, 5 GCSE qualifications grades A-C, with Maths and English a minimum of a B.

· Ideally you will have already started and achieved a level of AAT or have started your ACA qualification.

Desired Skills and Experience (but not required)

· Accountancy Practice experience.

· Experience of working with incomplete records (and able to identify when items are missing).

· Experience of preparing accounts to FRS 102 and 105 standards.

· Experience of preparing corporation and personal tax returns, with a good understanding of what would typically be included (and excluded) from computations.

· Experience and understanding of capital allowances and AIA.

· Experience and understanding of how to prepare a fixed asset register and apply appropriate depreciation policies.

· Experience and understanding of VAT calculations, filing returns and the differences between the rates of VAT, with a handle on the MTD rules.

· Experience of running Payroll & completing CIS Returns.

· Have an understanding of personal tax and national insurance – limits, rates etc.

· Experience of the following software packages:
- IRIS (Accounts Production, Business Tax, Personal Tax, Fixed Asset Register & more)
- QuickBooks Online
- Xero
- Sage
- Microsoft Office, particularly Excel

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Apprenticeship

Salary: £15,000.00-£22,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• On-site parking
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

COVID-19 considerations:
We have predominantly moved to Zoom / Teams meetings instead of in-office meetings, but we're looking forward to getting back to 'service as usual'.

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Rochester ME2 4JF: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• A-Level or equivalent (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 02/08/2021