SKS Business Services - Chartered Accountant (3-6 yrs)

Job Description:

Accounts Profile Account's preparation:

- Prepare financial statements from incomplete records for limited companies, partnerships, and sole traders.

Tax returns:

- Prepare corporation, personal, sole traders, and partnership tax returns.

- Management accounts.

- Prepare management accounts, analyse performance, and write commentary.

- Prepare budgets.

- Prepare forecasts.

Supervision of Bookkeepers:

- Ensure accurate bookkeeping is being maintained by checking the bank reconciliation, suppliers and debtors' ledgers, month-end, or quarter-end entries, etc.

Manage weekly and monthly timelines:

- Prepare timelines for the all the team members-prepare the timeline calendar for Payroll, year-end accounts, VAT etc.

- Prepare the timeline calendar of year-end accounts, corporation tax return, annual return, personal tax return etc and update on weekly basis.

Communication:

- Communicate with clients as appropriate in a positive and constructive manner.

- Attend to client queries and resolve them (through coordination with UK team as necessary).

Allocate/ delegate work to subordinates:

- Daily meeting (and call) with team members to allocate/delegate the work and setting the work priority and deadlines.

- Report problems by exception and constantly improve process: only escalate a problem if cannot be resolved by peers (equals).

Coaching subordinates:

- Thoroughly check the work prepared by subordinate(s) - Provide coaching and training to subordinates.

- Help to promote them by identifying performance gap(s) and train them accordingly.

Additional Tasks as required:

- As we are a growing company, flexibility is required to assist with other office tasks as required by us.

Key Skills:

- Beyond qualifications and training, following key skills are required.

Enhanced numerical and quantitative skills:

- These are key as you will be dealing with all aspects of finance such as budgets and forecasting.

Analytical and problem-solving skills:

- You need strong analytical skills and excellent attention to detail as you will be analyzing financial performance and handling important documents.

- You will also be dealing with complex data sets.

Time management and organization:

- Working in accountancy means you will be dealing with strict deadlines, and you will need to have a system to keep track of your responsibilities and priorities.

Communication:

- Not only will you have to communicate with different teams, you will also frequently have to communicate with clients.

- You will need to be able to communicate complex information in a clear and understandable watching deadline.