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Are you an Accountant with experience of medical sector accountancy? If so, this could be of interest. Our client, a well-established accountancy practice is looking to build its specialist medical accounting team with the focus on the medical sector – GPs, medical partnerships, private medical practices etc.

Along with flexible, hybrid working and a supportive working environment, this firm will offer the successful candidate:

* Holiday - 25 days + 8 days of statutory bank holidays and a holiday purchase scheme

* Paid overtime and income protection scheme (protects your income in times of ill health)

* Life assurance – up to four times your basic annual salary

* Employee Assistance Programme

* Free professional subscriptions

* Onsite parking

* Social events and opportunity for involvement with local charities

As Accountant, your responsibilities will include:

* Timely and accurate preparation of management accounts for manager review

* Prepare complex assignments for manager review

* Utilise junior staff on more simple assignments and oversee their work standard, supporting trainees with development of knowledge and skills

* Review annual accounts prepared by juniors and finalise accounts

* Deal with complex business tax computations, including corporation tax

* Prepare personal tax returns for manager/director review - ensuring that clients are given good, pro-active advice

* Deliver exemplary services to clients and develop the relationship - communicate by letter, telephone and face to face in a professional manner, recognising and addressing the clients’ needs

* Prepare necessary files/documents for client meetings

* Provide cloud accounting training / support to clients

* Make manager aware of potential for overrun at earliest opportunity, be pro-active and prompt upward communication, predicting possible concerns and offering suggestions to remedy

* Provide daily feedback to all direct reports, review jobs giving clear, constructive feedback and carry out annual appraisal of direct reports

* Take an active participation in the personal and professional development of all direct reports

Please do apply for this Accountant role if you can satisfy the following:

* Ideally be qualified ACCA/ACA – exceptional part qualified and qualified by experience candidates

* Have extensive experience gained within a UK accountancy practice environment

* Awareness of NHS pension scheme and the preparation of superannuation certificates

* Knowledge and understanding of the GMS contract and NHS funding streams

* Experience with using PCSE Online and dealing with PCSE queries

* Knowledge of the preparation of PCN accounts is desirable (although not essential)

* Good general IT skills; MS Office, Xero, Sage – experience of QuickBooks, Online cloud accounting, Autoentry/ HubDoc, IRIS, Virtual Cabinet and Practice Engine would be an advantage

* Organised with good time management skills

* Excellent communication skills

A full, detailed job spec is available on registration.

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Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications for this role from candidates that do not have the right to work in the UK, or require visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future. This includes those currently on a student or graduate visa.

Additionally, candidates must have experience gained within UK accountancy practice. We stipulate these criteria due to the high volume of applications from outside of the UK.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within five days please assume that on this occasion your application has not been successful