Bookkeeper

Our clients are one of the regions leading firm of Chartered Accountants and due to growth within the company they are now looking to recruit a Bookkeeper to join the team based in Newcastle to manage a diverse portfolio of clients.

Main Duties:

• Provision of bookkeeping services to clients
• Preparation and submission of VAT returns
• Ensuring a high level of accuracy and consistency in bookkeeping functions to TB stage (for handover to Accounts Team)
• Carrying out cloud solutions demonstrations and training for existing and prospective clients
• Providing support to clients to convert them from their existing bookkeeping and accounting practices to their chosen cloud solution
• Liasing with Client Managers/Team Leaders to ensure efficiency and accuracy of bookkeeping and the clients progress through the accounts preparation process
• Cloud accounting experience (Xero/Quickbooks/Receipt Bank/AutoEntry/Hubdoc)

You must possess a can-do attitude, be adaptable, pay good attention to detail and possess good communication skills. You will hold a clean driving license and have access to transport, as you may be visiting clients at their premises.

It is highly essential that you have Xero experience as a large volume of the work will be prepared using this software.

It is essential you have experience in the following:

• Double-entry bookkeeping
• Maintaining bank feeds and bank reconciliation
• Creating bank rules and selecting the correct nominal code
• Posting of sales invoices
• Posting of supplier invoices manually or by using Hubdoc
• Preparation of MTD VAT returns and submission
• Preparation of domestic reverse charge adjustments
• Ability to produce a trial balance with an understanding of accruals, prepayments, and depreciation.
• Confident in using Excel, Word, and Outlook.

For more information or indeed to apply please send your CV via the “Apply Now” button and one of the team will call to discuss your application and the role in greater detail.