Job Description

An opportunity has arisen in an established fast growing boutique Accountancy firm. We are looking for an ambitious, hardworking and practice experienced individual to join our dynamic team as a Senior Accountant.

Key Responsibilities and Skills

The responsibilities of this role will require working in all aspects of the Accountancy profession such as bookkeeping, accounts production and Tax. You will be directly responsible to the Managing Partner.

The senior role requires:

• Building and maintaining strong client relationships
• Preparing working papers and annual accounts for sole traders and owner managed SMEs
• Prepare statutory accounts in accordance with UK FRS 105 and FRS 102A
• Prepare corporation tax returns for our clients with small-sized companies
• Review VAT returns and submissions
• Communicating with clients
• Liaise with HMRC on behalf of clients
• Supervise a team of accountants and train staff as appropriate.

Person Specification:

• Previous experience in a similar position
• Work confidently with various computer and accounting software ideally with Xero. 
• Up to date financial and tax regulations
• Quality assurance and customer care
• Effective business communication and team working spirit
• 3+ years of practice experience
• Good oral/written English skills

This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic and forward thinking firm and really progress your career.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £35,000.00 /year starting. Part time opportunity available.

Experience:

• Accounting: 3 years (Preferred)

Please forward you CV and a covering letter

We are looking for an individual with previous accounting experience in a commercial environment to join our small Head Office team in Walthamstow, ideally with knowledge of the Convenience Retail Sector.

You will have the ability to investigate variances and create new accounting processes. As part of this role you will challenge processes. With a motivational mind-set and strong attention to detail you will be an enthusiastic team player with excellent communication skills.

We have a small and relatively new team and looking for someone with some industry experience who can assist with new epos system, new accounting software and new team/office & processes.

The job role looks like this:

- Internal regular audit checks (stock counts for high value items eg cigarettes, lottery scratchcards, cash, safe)

- Reconcile control accounts

- Work directly with FD & Owners
- KPIs

- Payments

- Management accounts

- Post journals

- Invoicing/collecting rent

- Cashflow forecast

- Overseeing junior team members

- Annual budgets

- VAT
- Review aged creditors

- PAYE payments

- Oversee stock figures

- Assist buyer with rebates

Liaise closely with Finance Director & Management Accountant and the junior team members as well as the company owners. Supporting the team in general to achieve the targetted deadlines.

The ideal candidate will have a can do attitude, qualification of Cima or Acca ,proven experience, live locally and be prepared to work full time in the office. Good package for the correct candidate.

Look forward to hearing from you.

We have an exciting and rare opportunity for a dynamic and ambitious Management Accountant to join Douglas Park Limited’s Glasgow BMW dealership, part of the prestige operations of Park’s Motor Group, one of Scotland’s largest and most successful retailers.

Reporting to the Senior Management Accountant for the division, the successful candidate will be required to take an active role in ensuring optimised financial performance from our flagship BMW, MINI and BMW Motorrad dealership.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure the day to day operation of the financial processes are carried out efficiently and in accordance with group deadlines, including the recording of all sales, purchases and stock transactions
• Accurate and timely production of monthly management accounts
• Challenge and support branch management by analysing performance to establish trends and be able to provide recommendations
• Organise, prepare and actively participate at monthly and quarterly business reviews
• Support operational management in understanding and making effective use of their financial reports
• Manage dealership assets including debtors, stock, cash and funding facilities to maximise cash flow
• Develop and manage your team, encouraging strong controls and compliance with group policies
• Submission of manufacturer composites and analysis and interpretation of dealership KPIs
• Contribute to forecasting and budgeting processes to support overall organisational performance and change
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Complete all other ad hoc financial reporting requirements

Your skills and experience:

• The role would suit a qualified or part-qualified accountant
• You have a proven track record in managing staff across a multi-site environment
• You are a driven individual who is able to initiate and implement change to improve current procedures where appropriate
• You will be organised and able to work under pressure
• You will be a confident communicator who can be trusted with managing confidential and sensitive information
• Motor trade experience is preferable but not essential
• You will have a full, clean drivers licence

In return, you will receive strong development support in our well-established and highly effective finance team along with an excellent benefits package.

Commercial Manager
£40-50k

Willington, Derby
An unusual and exciting opportunity at the stunning Mercia Marina in Willington, Derby. This is a job with a difference and one where your contribution matters.

About you

We’re seeking someone with that rare combination of a sound commercial mindset complemented by a technical/engineering aptitude.
You will be a creative thinker who likes to investigate and apply imaginative solutions rather than taking the easy route. Someone as comfortable with capex management as they are managing diverse projects and people. Or at least confident and resourceful enough to take on the challenge and determined enough to succeed.

In return, we offer an exciting well-paid career in a role where your ideas are sought out and your actions make a difference to residents, businesses, visitors and holiday makers as well as the local community.
Over the past 12 years, we've laid the groundwork for a fabulous business. We still have big plans for the future and you will be central to those plans.
You’ll be working in one of the best environments in the Midlands (you can help make it one of the best in the country as that is our aim). You’ll join a small team where everyone counts, and everyone contributes.

About us

We're a fast-growing, well-established, financially secure family company with grand designs. Over the past 12 years we've created a destination with topflight commercial offices occupied by demanding international businesses, 260 floating residences, luxury holiday homes, 15 retail shops, cafes, and restaurants. There is scope for more of everything, but better and brighter. 

If you’re used to a slow-paced unchallenging environment where one day is much the same as the last, then this probably isn’t going to be the right role for you. Decision making here is rapid and straightforward as we are a small team with a flat structure.

What will you be doing?

Starting projects, pushing projects along, trying to wrap up projects, investigating improvements be it better office systems, management info, upgraded fibre internet, best use of land, new lodges, new vehicles, resource allocation and more. The tasks will run the gamut from the everyday to the once in a lifetime. The easy way is not our usual way.

You’ll be on the front line for new buildings, new infrastructure, additional land, more residences, more lodges including eco-lodges, IT innovation, equipment upgrades, e-vehicle charging schemes, e-bike schemes, etc.  And then there are your ideas…

Examples of current projects are: Promenade building development scheme; fibre optic internet installation for whole marina; financially viable e-vehicle charging for residents and visitors; bee-hives; lodge development; eco-lodges; realistic and viable energy saving possibilities and new software.

You’ll liaise with architects, planning consultants and planners on development schemes as required. You'll assess possible development projects for financial return, customer demand, likely take-up and feasibility. You'll undertake detailed appraisals of major schemes.

Constantly looking for opportunities to develop the business which will provide benefit for customers and the general public and as a consequence provide profitable growth.

Help determine the optimum technical/engineering solutions.

Develop an overview of existing products, operations and processes and put forward suggestions for improvement.

What experience and qualifications do you need?

Ideally an engineering or technical degree from a good university plus good commercial experience in a decision-making capacity or a good business degree with work experience in an engineering or technical capacity.

Able to undertake detailed financial appraisal of major projects

Creatively minded

Be an admirer of innovative solutions

A track record of achievement

Be keen to take on big developments

Have an international or at least national perspective
Previous applicants are welcome to reapply.
Deadline for applications is 31 March 2021. 

That’s all for now

If you’ve got this far, like what we have to offer and think we will appreciate what you have to offer, take the next step by making a confidential application by emailing your C.V. accompanied by a cover letter to robert@merciamarina.co.uk.

We recruit without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. And we mean it.

Job Role: Audit and Accounts Lecturer

Location: Homebased with UK travel

Hours: Full time (part time considered)

Salary: Competitive

Why do we want you?

We want you because you are an ACA / ACCA Qualified Accountant or you have technical training experience and are looking for a move out of practice into something a bit different.

Do you enjoy understanding and explaining the detailed technical requirements of ISAs and accounting standards (UK GAAP and/or IFRS)?

A bit about us.

Wilmington plc is a company with a difference. Over the years we’ve grown by acquisition and as such we have many unique businesses in our portfolio.  Mercia Group is one of them!

MerciaGroup is one of the leading providers of training and support services to the UK accountancy profession, working with over 8000 firms nationwide. 

We are looking for an individual to provide high quality, technically accurate and practical training to firms of all sizes. This will be via online web meetings, at public venues and also at client’s premises.

The role will involve;  

• CPD courses on national face-to-face, online and in-house course programmes 
• Keeping up to date with latest technical changes across a wide range of subjects and presenting this in an interesting and engaging style
• Writing and developing technical yet practical course materials for use on face-to-face and online events.
• Influence over course content.

The role will be home based, unless there is a preference to work at one of the group’s offices when not at clients. However there is expected to be a considerable amount of UK travel.

There is also the opportunity to get involved in other areas of Mercia’s products and services (such as writing and file reviewing). So if you are interested in a varied role, please come and talk to us.

We always support colleagues to develop their skills but to be successful in this job you really do need to already be able to tick most of these boxes...

We know it’s not a skill, but the successful candidate must have permission to work in the role’s location by the start of their employment.

You will also need;

• Skills needed for the role: 

  • ACA / ACCA qualified or those who have other relevant experience
  • Good experience of UK Accounting and Auditing Standards
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong technical knowledge with the ability to explain this in a way which is easy for others to understand
  • Hands on or management experience within a professional practice or relevant professional body
  • Enthusiastic self-starter and team player with a desire to help others
  • Willingness to travel throughout the UK
  • Ideally familiarity with non-audit regulations that impact on accountancy practices
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently.

• Skills that are desirable:

  • Technical and practical knowledge of non-audit regulations that impact on firm’s in practice. For example, DPB, Practice Assurance, Probate, AML and Clients’ Money.

Thanks for reading our job advert. We’ve tried to bring to life what it’s like working as part of Wilmington plc but we do so much that it’s tough to distil into a single page. We also recognise that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job unless they think they match every requirement. Don’t let that hold you back. If you are excited about the role and think you can do much of what we have described but aren’t sure if you are quite who we’re looking for… give it a try. Nothing ventured nothing gained!

Come join us!

We offer a great benefits package which includes standard things like performance related bonus, pension with life assurance etc., but also Wilmington Choices which allows you to tailor your benefits package with offerings like holiday purchase, discount vouchers, heavily subsidised gym membership, cycle to work schemes and dining cards.

We offer variety, development and an opportunity to be part of a committed group of colleagues. We operate an open environment where you’ll be encouraged to make an impact. At Wilmington, our collaborative approach means your great ideas will be welcomed and your great work recognised. 

We are focused on ensuring that Wilmington remains a great place to work. We value our people and we continue to invest in their career development. We encourage learning, and career opportunities are possible across all Wilmington companies

“We are committed to equality, equality of opportunity and valuing diversity”

The Legal Bit!

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

*Please note that this role may remain advertised until an offer of employment has been made.

• Strong previous experience working within internal audit
• To be qualified or working towards a qualification such as CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA, IIA
• The ability to write reports setting out work carried out and the findings arising
• The ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Strong analytical judgment
• To be able to work with minimum supervision
• To be eligible to live and work in the UK
• To be an enthusiastic professional who is excited to join a wonderful team!

TIAA is one of the largest specialist internal audit providers to the public sector in the UK. Our clients include some of the largest and most complex organisations in the country, and they look to us to provide them with robust assurance on their internal control and risk management arrangements.We are fully employee-focused with our staff being majority shareholders. Our staff are proud to be the face of TIAA and their work demonstrates this.

What if you could work with remarkable people on extraordinary things? What if the end result was something a little bit special? What if your role was mission critical?

For nearly 70 years, AWE has been at the forefront of nuclear weapons research and development. We have a critical mission: to provide the warheads for the UK’s ultimate deterrent – Trident. We also use our unique skills to provide wider UK government with counter-terrorism and nuclear threat reduction solutions.

It takes a special sort of person to work at AWE. What if that person was you?

Senior Auditor

Location – Reading/Basingstoke area

AWE offers a competitive salary, market leading contributory pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement, excellent work/life balance including a 9-day working fortnight and flexible working hours (role dependent).  A salary sacrifice scheme is also available. We will consider candidates looking for full time or part time hours.

Due to ongoing growth, AWE is seeking to recruit a Senior Auditor to join our Internal Audit team. This role is ideal for someone with previous internal auditing experience particularly within a large, complex organisation.

The ideal candidate can manage stakeholder relationships, influence successful outcomes, manage a pipeline of work to deadlines and produce quality audit reports. A willingness to work collaboratively in the Internal Audit team is a must.

You will be responsible for undertaking internal audits in order to provide independent assurance against risks to business goals on behalf of the Executive and key stakeholders. You will be required to report findings related to risks and governance and work with the business to develop effective action plans to improve processes. 

Successful candidates will have:

• CIA, CMIIA or ACCA, ACA (part-qualified will also be considered)
• Experience in stakeholder management
• Good negotiation skills
• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing
• Ability to maintain independence
• Analytical skills with the ability to provide evidence-based conclusions
• Deliver to deadlines and prioritise workload
• Experience of modern audit techniques
• Awareness of risk management techniques
• Awareness of corporate governance approaches
• Experience of financial and operational processes
• Ability to use Excel competently (desirable)

Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role.

#LI-MB

Please note that you must be a British National to apply for a role at AWE.

AWE plays a crucial role in the defence of the United Kingdom, by providing and maintaining the warheads for the country’s nuclear deterrent. We are a centre of scientific, engineering and technological excellence, with some of the most advanced research, design and production facilities in the world. Our unique expertise also assists the UK Government in developing and delivering a range of innovative and integrated support services, including national nuclear security and counter-terrorism solutions.

AWE is an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from sections of the community which are currently under-represented at AWE, including women, BAME and people with disabilities.

About the Remote Cyber Security Auditor role for Saudi Company

• Do you want to be a key member of a close knit, growing, and skilled team and organization?
• Do you want to be heard and recognized for your contributions?
• Are you skilled in conducting Cyber Security Audits and are looking to expand your overall knowledge and experience?
• Are you tired of applying for potential positions and never getting feedback?

If this describes you - apply to this job and we are sure your application will be reviewed by our team and you will be contacted.

With a variety of clients in the public and private sector, our client best in class cyber security solutions provider headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They are a team of passionate, talented, and committed Infosec professionals that recognize the need to remain laser focused on promoting and enabling a culture of cybersecurity in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and beyond. Their talented engineers are skilled at threat monitoring and the risk mitigation at all levels.

Our client is seeking a highly skilled, motivated, detail-oriented, and results-driven Cyber Security Auditor to join their Audit Team.

Role Responsibilities:

• Host client security audits and facilitate process with internal stakeholder, lead pre-audit preparation
• Assist in writing white papers specific to security topics;
• Update and maintain security documentation repositories;
• Manage client and third-party assessment process;
• Enhance and update tools as industry requirements change;
• Assist in vendor/third-party security questionnaire responses and documentation when necessary;
• Assist in third-party security assessment activities related to client security.
• Lead and build the Info Sec Audit practice.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
• 4 years of experience in Security Audits
• Excellent communication skills
• Certified ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor

Preferred and highly desirable:

• Working knowledge of IT General Controls, COBIT, NIST, ITIL, and ISO 27001
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), or other relevant industry recognized certification
• Data Analysis Skills

Apply Now and our Recruitment Consultants will contact you.