Practice Accountant

PRACTICE ACCOUNTANTMy client, a well-established, Accountancy Practice in Galway City Centre, seeks to hire a new Accountant to join their team. The ideal candidate, will be fully qualified with audit experience, though part-qualified candidates with audit will be considered also.. You will join a small accountancy practice in Galway, being exposed to accounts preparation, income tax, compliance, and audit. Working within a small team, you will own a client portfolio of circa 20+ large, well-known businesses in Galway. This is a permanent role, ideally 5-days per week onsite, though with adhoc flexibility given as needed to work from home. This will suit a candidate who wants to work with quality clients and wants a normal, work life balance, finishing at 17:30 every afternoon, even due tax deadline season!RESPONSIBILITIES:Portfolio management•Be able to liaise with several clients to manage workflow of receipt of accounting records and co-ordinate jobs to be done. •Need to be aware of client cases ahead and to be contacting and arranging with their portfolio of clients to schedule the cases coming in.•Client cases could include hotels, charities, construction, schools, retail professional services. Audit•Carry out an audit on SME cases – Input required in planning, materiality, field work and final reporting to client. •Liaise with client’s bookkeeper to coach them around areas for improvement and assist bookkeeper with journals / adjustments to accounting system.•From audit - Recommendations for improvement in accounting process of clientAccounts preparation•Prepare a set of Accounts from client’s records with supporting file and schedules.•A fully referenced accounts file with supporting schedules is the base line to each set of financial statements.•Adjustments to clints records and recommendations for changes where necessaryTaxation•Prepare client corporation tax computation and return for ROS filing for both corporate taxes and personal taxes, understanding where tax addbacks or close company surcharge etc need apply.ROS •Experience using ROS is required for filing corporation and personal tax returns.Payroll•Make manual payroll changes on ROS / Thesaurus as required.Financial Statements •Be comfortable with disclosures for FRS financial statements using Sage.CRO •Be comfortable with the CORE and routine CRO filings.REQUIREMENNTS•Fully or Part Qualified Accountant with Audit•Small Practice trained – Desired, but not essential.•Strong MS Suite Skills - Essential•Comfortable using various client software booking keeping systems - TAS, Xero, Quickbooks and Sage. •Excellent prioritisation skills needed to understand various client deadlines. For more information, please contact for a discreet conversation.#LI-PKCABC#CplPeterCasey