Company & Role Overview

Our client a leading chartered accountancy firm are looking for an organised Audit Supervisor possessing strong planning and delegation skill to join their busy team. You will be working with organisations of every type and size. Clients are active in all branches of commerce and industry, ranging from substantial corporations to small businesses. The ideal candidate for this role will hold least 3 years experience.

Main Responsibilities

• Prepare and assessment of statutory accounts in line with UK GAAP/FRS102
• You will report to an audit manager and/or Partner
• You will be responsible for the planning and implement audits (which cover a wide range of client types and sizes) in accordance with the International Auditing Standards
• Budgeting and bringing the audits to completion
• Ensuring client expectations are met to a high standard
• Managing audit trainees, reviewing their work, assisting with their development and performance evaluations
• Drafting corporate tax calculations
• Good team player
• Able to lead large audits

Requirements

• ACA qualified
• Audit experience with a wide range of clients
• Capable technical ability
• Well-rounded leadership and managerial skills
• Ability to organise and prioritise workloads
• Exceptional communication skills
• Exceptional organisational skills

Company & Role Overview

Our client has an exciting new opportunity for a Hearings Team Manager to join their team. This role with involve dealing with leading, motivating and managing a team that often works remotely and is responsible for the delivery of a high volume of hearings. Ensuring, through coaching, support and guidance of individuals, a strong team ethos and collaborative working with colleagues across the department. Be accountable for the quality, volume and timeliness of your team’s work.

Main Responsibilities

• Effectively prioritise and manage work and hearings, ensuring the best use of available resources to meet business needs and identification of future resource requirements.
• Manage a team who works remotely in hearings, being able to coach and support direct reports to problem solve and overcome obstacles or issues that supports the delivery of their work and the smooth running of all hearing types.
• Manage and lead the performance of the team by ensuring sufficient support, guidance and direction is provided and that human resource issues and any poor performance is managed quickly and effectively.
• Control hearing risks through the undertaking of appropriate checks at all stages of the process, making recommendations and escalating high-risk hearings to Operational Managers.
• Support the Operational Manager to promote and embed within the team a culture of continuous improvement and values that are consistent with the company values.
• To continuously monitor, identify, assess, mitigate, remediate, and appropriately escalate risks, not only within their area of responsibility but also across the organisation.
• Manage and motivate direct reports by providing direction and setting clear objectives and behaviours through effective performance reviews. Assure and be accountable for the quality of your team’s work.
• Manage autonomously and through direction, advice and support to individuals or team, any challenges or issues that arise in relation to the scheduling or management of hearings, whether from internal or external source.
• Analyse and recommend improvements to processes and systems in order to address the learning needs identified, then implement agreed actions to increase quality, productivity and efficiency
• Responsible for reviewing and authorising financial claims relating to hearings.
• Assist with the appointment and recruitment
• Responsible for ensuring the public facing Register is accurately updated to reflect the outcome of a hearing.
• Using available data and own analysis, drive the performance and productivity of your team to ensure performance objectives and indicators are consistently achieved.
• Responsible for the adjudicating of postponement requests made in advance of a hearing.
• Review and respond to challenges and complaints about the decisions made and service provided by your or other teams, ensuring that learning for individuals or the team is identified and implemented.
• DS Checks This role may bring you into contact with, or allow access to information relating to children or vulnerable adults.

Requirements

• You will have significant experience of managing a team and resources, including demonstrable ability and understanding of performance management and coaching.
• You will have a high level of written English and verbal communication skills, and an ability to use your initiative to work effectively under pressure.
• Your strong communication skills will enable you to work effectively within a team and with your peers, to build and maintain positive relationships across a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• You will be able to work closely with a range of people involved in fitness to practise cases (including our external Partners, external legal services provider and Case Management Team)
• Have a strong understanding of regulation and experience of working with/interpreting legislation.

Company & Role Overview

Our client is a tech start-up company who are based in the heart of London. They are currently recruiting for a Head of Growth role which will be a very hands on position within a small team and will focus on driving growth strategy for the start-up. The individual will need to be willing to get involved with various sides of the marketing responsibilities and will be a real self starter with a passion for start-ups and growth.

Main Responsibilities

• Produce and present growth reporting
• Report directly to the founders
• Running the Growth process to generate and prioritise and turn them into conclusive tests
• Work on new ideas and test them within a timeframe
• Liason with freelancers to produce high quality customer experience
• Working to tight deadlines
• Managing other members of the small team
• Generate and prioritise ideas and turn them into tests
• Be responsible for all growth related tasks

Requirements

• Hands-on experience creating and implementing growth strategy
• B2C experience
• Being able to put strategy into practise
• Well organised
• Great energy

Remote working whilst in lockdown

Competitive salary and equity/shares in the company

Company & Role Overview

Our clients who is a leading chartered accountancy firm is looking for an experienced Audit Manager to join their busy team. You will be working with organisations of every type and size. Clients cover all divisions of commerce and industry, ranging from large to small businesses. The ideal candidate will be a skilled manager with a specialised services background.
 

Main Responsibilities

• Accountable for a portfolio of corporate clients across a wide-ranging of industries
• Managing client relationship and ensuring that expectations are managed accordingly
• Plan, overseeing, and reviewing audit, accounts, and corporation tax work
• Preparing and reviewing statutory accounts in line with UK GAAP and FRS102
• Supervise junior staff and assisting any queries on technological and professional development, including conducting periodic appraisals
• Performing billing management
• Administration duties
• Ad hoc business consultancy and any duties in line with the role
• Support in producing new business

Requirements

• ACA qualified
• At least 5 year audit experience within a specialised services environment
• Experience of UK GAAP, FRS102, and IFRS
• Experience in managing audits
• Capable technical ability
• Familiarity of corporate tax, personal tax, and indirect tax
• Proven leadership and supervisory skills
• Be able to organise and prioritise workloads
• Good communication skills
• Knowledge of Microsoft packages

Company & Role Overview

Our client is a UK leading Charity. They help to provide crucial support to people with Complex disabilities all across the UK for well over the last 10 years. Our client is looking for an experienced Management Accountant to add to the team. We are looking for the right individual to join now to be part of an exciting future ahead.

This role will provide vital assistance and support across the Finance department.

Main Responsibilities

• To carry out all aspects of the role in a satisfactory manner and within the guidance of the Organisation’s Goals, Values and Strategic aims.
• Work collaboratively with Senior Management and Head of Finance to prepare the Annual Budget & Business Plan
• Create an Annual Budget timetable
• Design Annual Budget setting processes and procedures
• Design Budget modelling processes
• Perform financial modelling for new business contracts
• Work with the Financial Controller on month end closure processes
• Provide training to Managers on managing budgets effectively
• Prepare Monthly Management Accounts
• Perform Monthly Management Accounts meetings with Budget holders to document and explain variances from Budget
• Support the Senior Management Team to take timely action to address deviations from Budget
• Produce Monthly Management information reporting
• Support the work of internal and external audit
• Lead the Business Support to all areas of the organisation

Requirements

• CIMA, ACCA OR ACA qualified, CIMA is preferable 
• At least 3 years’ relevant experience at senior level of Financial Management & Budget Controls
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Strong analytical skills

Company & Role Overview

Our client who specialises in daylighting interiors has an exciting opportunity for a motivated Lead Developer to join their expanding eCommerce business. This role will involve software engineering, maintaining current software’s as well as expanding newly introduced systems.

Main Responsibilities

• Previous experience as a Lead Developer/Software Engineer
• Manage and engage a team ensuring project deadlines are met.
• Design/developing web-based applications
• Adhering to Coding Guidelines, UI Guides, automated testing and code reviews

Requirements 

• High knowledge of project life cycles
• Able to meet requirements all the way through to test
• Team leader skills
• Excellent communication
• Testing experience
• High quality coding
• Self-assertive on reviewing and maintaining high standards of all developers

Company & Role Overview

Our client is a prestigious luxury brand. They supply to the luxury accesories worldwide and they have a fantastic working culture, ambitious and rapid growth plans.

In order to support their IT department to the highest standard, they are looking to strengthen the team. It is a great opportunity to get well-rounded, in-depth and great experience in an exciting industry and working environment.

Main Responsibilities

• Qualification with major discipline in Software Development
• Client AJAX/Web API
• server WebAPI
• Javascript
• jQuery
• HTML5
• CSS
• NoSQL storage & processing (eg: DynamoDB, MongoDB, DocumentDB, CouchDB, etc) : 3 years+
• T-SQL (or other RDBMS)
• SVN/GIT
• Agile Methodologies and Collaboration
• Understanding of UI and UX design principles (what works, what doesn’t work, and why

Requirements

• Ability to effectively communicate and explain technical issues with non-technical people
• Interested in, and enjoys the challenges of, learning new things
• Ability to interpret impromptu business requirements and work with minimal specifications
• Capable of creative, non-linear and analytical thinking
• Ability to appreciate and understand the perspective of others

Company & Role Overview

Our client is a leading infrastructure firm who are looking for a bright and committed self-starter to join the Marketing team.

Main Responsibilities

• Deliver a strong social media presence across various platforms
• Respond to engagement and enquiries within a timely manner
• Manage Wordpress websites (uploading, updating)
• Develop marketing collateral
• Help ensure great content
• Plan internal and external events and exhibitions
• Establish relationships with other teams so not to miss out on any photography/videography opportunities
• Report to the Head of Marketing & Communications

Requirements

• At least 3 years’ experience in b2b marketing role
• Confidence, self-starter
• Willingness to travel
• A keen interest in politics and current affairs
• Enjoys using all forms of social media
• Excellent copywriting experience
• Organised and committed

Company & Role Overview

Our client is a top infrastructure specialist firm.
They are looking for a bright and committed self-starter to join the Public Affairs team.

Main Responsibilities

• Understand and engage in policy issues
• Support strategy planning for engagement
• Overseeing research and providing summaries
• Intelligence reporting
• Preparing briefings for meetings with MPs, Civil Servants, Local Authorities, Stakeholders and Ministers
• Drafting parliamentary correspondence
• Supporting conferences and events

Requirements

• At least 2 years’ experience in a similar role
• Strong copywriting skills/ability to produce content across all channels
• Confidence to communicate with stakeholders/press/influencers
• A keen interest in politics and current affairs
• A track record of targeting and achieving with the media
• Excellent telephone manner

Company & Role Overview 

Our client who is a leading accountancy firm is looking for an organised Bookkeeper to come and join their highly established company. To be a successful candidate for this role you will need to be ACCA/AAT Qualified or studying. You will also need to be Xero Certified.

Main Responsibilities

• Preparing monthly and quarterly bookkeeping (including the reconciliation of control accounts which is a vital part)
• Preparing and submitting VAT returns, checking VAT returns prepared by clients
• Preparing and submitting CIS returns
• Looking at Software/ Apps that link with Xero and developing internal systems to improve efficiency

Requirements

• ACCA/ AAT Qualified or working towards
• Experience in practice – in particular bookkeeping experience
• Xero Certified – must have a lot of experience using Xero and be very confident using this. You will be required to give training to clients where necessary, and also share knowledge/ train within the team
• Experience in Sage is desired but not essential
• Strong understanding of accountancy/ tax principles, including reconciling control accounts
• Experience preparing and submitting CIS returns is essential and an understanding of CIS In addition to the above you must be able to manage your own workload and work to tight deadlines, extra hours may be required during busy periods

Company & Role Overview

The Graduate Project are working closely with a large and growing organisation who are seeking a Systems and Reporting Officer to join their well-established function. Reporting into the Systems and Reporting Manager, this individual will support with all day-to-day activity across end-to-end procurement systems - the role will provide direct support to the various Procurement teams in order to enable the effective delivery of large-scale projects in keeping with relevant compliance.

This opportunity would best suit an individual who has strong experience managing procurement systems across a public sector organisation and is looking for the next step in their career - this is a great opportunity for someone seeking career trajectory within a large, growing business.

Main  Responsibilities

• Provide operational systems support and guidance during the procurement process to stakeholders across the Procurement and Commercial teams
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint
• Ability to work on complex business processes and make improvements
• Act as 1st point of contact for any system support and complex configuration issues both; project specific and system wide
   

Requirements

• Prior experience in a Systems Analyst / Officer type role
• Genuine passion to build and develop a career within systems support
• Previous experience working within a utilities or public sector organisation
• Strong working knowledge of various systems; advantageous if you have previously worked with JAGA / BRAVO, AWARD and Oracle ERP

Company & Role Overview

Our client in the FMCG industry is looking for a Due Diligence Officer to join their team to improve client services including KYC and KYS, including running risk management.

Main Responsibilities

• Improve integrity of the company by imputing to the risk assessment of future business relationships based on national and international regulations.
• Work independently on end-to-end KYC and KYS due diligence processes, providing expert advice to relevant businesses.
• Collect, analyse, verify all details of Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Supplier (KYS) with verification methods using the FITTED structure.
• Review and check clients tax validation using VIES and other VAT websites to check validity.
• Communicate independently and professionally with external and internal clients and stakeholders on all KYC related matters.
• Contribute to the implementation and controls for daily processes and assist with the update of procedures.
• Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Supplier (KYS)checks should comply with companies Due Diligence Policy.

Requirements

• Higher Education/Bachelor’s/Master’s degree.
• Minimum of two years relevant work experience, preferably in a client- facing position.
• Affinity with the financial sector and basic understanding of due diligence and (international) Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) regulations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical skills and strong risk awareness.
• Team player, independent, hardworking, eager to learn and accurate
• LPC (Desirable)