Semi Senior Accountant - independent firm with strong reputation
1 day ago
Colchester
Are you an AAT-qualified or part-qualified ACA/ACCA Accountant with experience working to UK regulations in a professional accounting firm? Perhaps you’re part of a large organisation and starting to feel like just another number. Or maybe you’re in a smaller firm and ready for a step up — somewhere that will broaden your exposure and genuinely support your development. Would you like to work for a firm that truly listens, values its people, and delivers on its promises? The Firm Our client is a highly reputable, independent, medium-sized accountancy practice based in the heart of Suffolk. Known for its supportive and people-focused culture, the firm offers a warm, encouraging, and motivating environment where progression is based on merit, not empty promises. If you want to grow, the opportunities are real and tangible. Reed Practice has been engaged directly by the Partners, who are looking to appoint an ambitious Semi Senior Accountant to join their growing team. The firm has a thriving and expanding client base, continuing to grow at pace. This newly created role forms part of their strategic expansion plans and is designed to support the Senior Accountants and management team while maintaining a healthy workload across the business. The Role Working within a close-knit, high-calibre team and supporting the leadership group, your responsibilities will include: • Preparing statutory accounts and tax returns, from initial preparation or first review through to completion, • Handling general bookkeeping, accounting, and taxation queries, • Supporting occasional Capital Gains Tax (CGT) submissions The firm offers a benefits package comparable to larger national practices, including: • Flexible working policy with varied start and finish times, • Hybrid working opportunities (trainees will be expected to be office-based more often to support learning and qualification progression), • Generous holiday allowance, with the option to buy additional days, • Subsidised parking, • Company sick pay, • Pension scheme, • A collaborative, supportive, and people-first culture To be successful in this role, you will: • Have trained and worked within a UK accountancy practice, • Be confident producing work in line with UK accounting and tax regulations, • Be up to date with current accounting and tax rules, • Be AAT Level 4 qualified or ACA/ACCA part-qualified or finalist Reed Practice Reed’s practice specialists understand the value of talented professionals; we offer you a personal service and will match you with a firm which will help you to thrive and progress your career. We have links with firms of all sizes, making us the best-placed recruiter to advance your practice career. We specialise in tax, audit, accounts preparation, payroll, insolvency, corporate finance and forensic accounting opportunities at all levels. Not only will we help you find your ideal move, but we reward you for referring us to other professionals.