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About Penney's Accountancy
We are a bookkeeping, payroll and accountancy practice located in the heart of Farnborough, Hampshire.
We are a great fun-loving team who enjoy working together, and supporting each other.
It gives us great pleasure to help our clients be a success which also has a positive effect on enabling our business to grow exponentially. We have lots of lovely testimonials (view testimonials) from our clients and most of our new business comes from referrals from existing clients.
Join us! Become a Member of the Team
Are you looking for a position as an accountant?
Do you long for a role that is fresh and exciting? Did you go into accountancy wanting to make a difference and maybe run your own practice someday? Do you want to feel appreciated too?
At Penney’s, the work is interesting, varied and no two days are ever the same. You’ll be an integral team member working from our UK Office in Farnborough. We are proud to be a digital practice and our MD is a regular speaker at the Digital Accountancy Show and Accountex.
You’ll form strong relationships with your colleagues and our clients, working on tasks such as:
- Cash Flow Forecasting
- Budgets
- Self Assessment
- Limited Company Accounts
- Corporation Tax Return
We also guarantee plenty of opportunity to hone your problem-solving skills.
Do you want real job satisfaction? Do you want to inspire clients to achieve things they had never dreamed of in their business and personal lives? If so, look no further.
The package:
ü Competitive salary
ü Private medical insurance (once having been with us for 3 months)
ü Office Massage – once a month
ü Free parking in our town centre location
We work together in a very friendly and fun environment. We even have monthly back, neck and shoulder massages from our visiting holistic
therapist.
Does this sound like your cup of tea … or coffee?!
What we are looking for
Chartered Accountant (with Business Development Responsibilities)
Although this position is advertised as a full-time vacancy, we are happy and flexible to consider anyone who needs to accommodate child care and navigate around school hours. We are also very understanding of any doctor appointments, optician appoints etc as well.
The following training and proficiencies/experience is required:
- Fully or part ACCA qualified – Fundamentals and Professionals
- Proficiency in Xero bookkeeping software and TaxCalc accountancy software and a working knowledge of QuickBooks (bookkeeping software)
- Ideally 3 years’ practice experience
- Assist with creating new business targets for gaining new clients
- Create and manage marketing plans
- Create business development strategies
- Deputise when director is away
- Build excellent client relationships
- Create and categorise A, B and C client lists
- Work with the team to create checklists to find opportunities for cross-selling or up-selling
- Understand and present data showing the root causes for high or low profitability
- Run and develop the team, ensuring maximum effectiveness of staff
- Produce monthly / annual statistics on
- Revenue vs forecast data
- Profit vs budget
- Enquiries to new business conversion
- Average time to convert new clients
- Attend and show productivity over quarterly performance reviews with the Director
- Attend weekly meetings
- Disciplined, trustworthy and loyal
- Proficient in Microsoft Office: Excel and Word
- Able to communicate effectively with all clients
- A good manager to team members
- A strong leader to help run and develop each staff member
- Self-driven
- Easy going and flexible
- Good at problem-solving
- Have attention to detail
- Able to inspire clients in their business and personal lives
- Dynamic and driven
- Ready to embrace and incorporate new technology/software
- Keen to make a difference
- Honest and loyal
- Bookkeeping:
- Xero (essential)
- CIS (essential)
- Quickbooks (advantageous)
- Freeagent (advantageous)
- Clearbooks (advantageous)
- Payroll:
- BrightPay (essential)
- Moneysoft (essential)
- Employment Hero (advantageous)
- Buddy (advantageous)
- Sage online (advantageous)
- Freeagent (advantageous)
- Xero (advantageous)
If this sounds like you, send us your CV. We’re eager to see if you’re the next member of Penney’s dream team. If you’d like to chat about the role, drop us an email admin@penneysaccountancy.co.uk or give us a call us on 01252 865 150.
Salary: Starting from £33,000 depending on qualification and experience