Xero Bookkeeper (Flexible) Remote
Job description
- Are you an accounting superstar and want to be part of a growing accounting team?
- Are you ready for your accountancy career to grow?
- Are you ready to use your knowledge to support a range of lovely clients?
- Are you ready to help shape the future of a young accountancy team?
When you join Neon Bear you become part of a small but impactful team. You join a team that cares passionately about your career and you’ll grow, as well as getting support to help you to define and achieve your personal goals?
You will be part of a team that cares passionately for its clients. You’ll be involved in inspiring, supporting and educating our clients to love and understand their numbers, while helping them to achieve their personal and business goals. Our core values are Authenticity, Customer Empathy, Community Focused, Inclusion & Passion.
As an LGBTQ+ owned business, we are passionate about equality and diversity and look to support other diverse companies where we can. Our strategy is simple, we work with clients who share our core values and have purpose and vision in their own business, and we want the same from our candidates.
You will have the choice to work flexibly, whether from home, a shared office space, or the café, wherever you feel most comfortable and productive to get the work done.
You can flex your day and do the hours which work best for you and your clients. You will be working in an environment where the output is important, there is no clock watching at Neon Bear, just focus on client support and deliverables.
You will have a positive work-life balance. You’ll be shown how to organise your diary and workload to prevent overwhelm. Your mental health is important to us.
You will have the opportunity to work with some great and varied clients, where you will be very much considered part of their team.
You will receive regular training, and you’ll be given time to ensure that you keep up to date with the latest changes in accounting, taxation and technology.
We meet socially every couple of months to do something fun, hopefully you wont find it forced fun! All paid for by Neon Bear
You will be part of a business that is always looking for a more efficient way of working, innovating and challenge the way that we do things. Your ideas and feedback will always be listened to and encouraged.
Here is what some of the team have said about working at Neon Bear:
I have worked at Neon Bear since September 2021 and have enjoyed every minute of it. Pete is fun to work with and I have learnt a lot over time. He is always searching for new and improved ways to make it easier for both clients and us to work efficiently together as a team and moving with the times where the accounting world has changed in recent years. There is a nice portfolio of clients which makes work more interesting and challenging at times but never a dull moment.
What will you receive by working at Neon Bear?
- Salary range is between £25,000 and £35,000, based on full-time position and experience
- 20 days holiday, plus bank holidays, as a minimum. The office is closed at Christmas until the New Year which is extra days off.
- Its your choice whether you work part-time of full time.
- We’ll contribute to your pension scheme
- Team events
- We will consider freelancers as well as PAYE employees
What do we need you, the next team member of Neon Bear, to be? You will:
- Have at least 2 years accountancy practice experience and minimum AAT qualified.
- Take a balance sheet approach to preparing accounts
- Be able to advise business owner-managers in basic tax planning
- Be confident in looking after clients. You’ll know when to pick up the phone, offer a zoom or just to say Hi.
- Love to educate your clients on the best tax, accounting or bookkeeping practices, systems or processes, for their business
- Like the idea of getting involved with our growing business, looking for opportunities to increase services whilst always keeping the clients best interest in mind.
- You LOVE to be busy and can work at a fast pace, across multiple clients and requests.
- Be a Xero and Dext expert, and enjoy adopting new tech.
Your next step….
Neon Bear is an accountancy business based in London. There is currently a team of 4, plus Arlo the Managing Pawtner. You will be joining that team.
The first step towards joining us is to send a CV, with a 3 minute video sharing why you feel that Neon Bear would be the perfect team for you, to [email protected]
Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalised groups tend to only apply when they tick every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily meet every single requirement on the list above, please still get in touch. We’d love to have a chat and hear about what else you know.
The Role
· Completing regular bookkeeping for a variety of clients
· Maintain sales and purchase day books
· Record bank transactions and carry out bank reconciliations
· Reconcile balance sheet entries
· Perform data entry with meticulous attention to detail.
· Liaise with clients, external suppliers and customers as required
· Responding to client queries.
· Liaising with clients and ensuring they hit agreed timeframes. Not being afraid to push and chase clients
· Daily usage of financial processes, enhancing and updating where needed.
· Preparation of VAT returns
· Complete year end bookkeeping reviews to assist with our annual accounts process
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Part-time hours: 22.5 per week
Salary: £25,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Flexitime
Schedule:
- Flexitime
Work Location: Remote
