Total 5 Accounting / Auditing job vacancies in Leeds, LS1 3EX

Job Title: Audit and Assurance Senior

Location: Leeds

Salary: £38,000 - £46,000, depending on experience

Your new company:

A leading provider of accountancy, tax, and business advisory services, dedicated to empowering organisations to achieve their goals. With a strong focus on building lasting client relationships, they offer tailored solutions that combine industry expertise and innovative strategies. If you're seeking a dynamic environment where your contributions can truly make an impact, this is the ideal place for you.

Your new role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a new position as Audit & Assurance Senior with one of our reputable clients. You will manage an extensive and broad portfolio of clients. Taking both ownership of a small individual portfolio, as well as working alongside Client Service Directors and Managers, you will be in a client facing role, establishing strong relationships with a significant number of business owners across the region. You will play an integral part within the existing team in delivering high services to the client base.

Key Requirements:

• ACA / ACCA qualified
• Full UK Driving Licence
• Comfortable working in a fast paced environment
• Able to prioritise workloads under strict deadlines
• A team player and willing to assist colleagues where possible
• Able to use initiative and have great organisation and problem solving skills

Key benefits include:

• Salary Sacrifice Employer Contribution Pension Scheme
• 26 days Annual Leave, plus Bank Holidays
• Hybrid working options
• Paid professional membership fees
• Ongoing access to online training courses and materials
• Subsidised social events throughout the year
• Paid flu jabs and eye tests
• Annual leave purchase scheme, option to purchase extra holiday

Brook Street NMR is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager - Investment Accounting & Operations
SALARY: £93,908 - £110,480
LOCATION(S): Bristol, Edinburgh or Leeds
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity:

Are you ready to make a difference in a leading UK-based financial services group?

Our Investment Accounting & Operations team plays a crucial role in ensuring the smooth functioning of our investment services. We manage and oversee investment accounting, making sure everything's accurate and compliant. Our team collaborates with various departments to streamline investment operations and improve efficiency. We're all about automating processes to make things run smoother and faster. Plus, we provide excellent customer service, resolving inquiries quickly and effectively.

As a qualified accountant or with experience in investment accounting and operations you will be pivotal in our role to oversee and report on over £160bn of assets. In essence, you'll be:

• Leading, managing and supporting the career development of a team

• Automating and streamlining processes to enhance operational efficiency

• Providing exceptional customer service to resolve enquiries efficiently

• Managing and overseeing investment accounting activity, ensuring accuracy and compliance

• Analysing financial data and market trends to support with decision-making

About us:

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you'll need:

We'll be looking for a qualified accountant or significant experience with investment accounting and operations, alongside experience in:

• Leadership of a team

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial data.

• Proficiency in automating and streamlining processes.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

About working for us:

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Apply today:

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Within Finance and Planning, we put the Equality Diversity and Inclusion commitment into practice with our staff led delivery group. We want to see all parts of our community represented in our own team so we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply for jobs with us. Diverse teams are often the highest performing and welcome the range of experience that diversity brings to our teams. Speak to us about flexible working arrangements - job share, part time or another flexible pattern. We are now working in a hybrid way across home and office locations and support flexible working arrangements. We want to be sure you can work in a way that is best for us, for you and for our patients. Please see attached job description for further information about the responsibilities of this role. You can find further details about the role, a letter from the Deputy CFOs and advice on completing your application in the Document to download section. To discuss this role please contact Eleanor Shirtliff on eleanor.shirtliff@nhs.net.

The Finance and Planning Directorate in NHS England is looking for talented, diverse, highly motivated people to join the Financial Accounting team as Senior Lead: Sector Accounting - Accounts Production. We:

· work closely with government to agree NHS funding;

· ensure the NHS lives within its annual budget set by Parliament;

· decide how to distribute the funding to the different NHS services and parts of England;

· support innovative programmes that improve the care and experience of NHS patients or people using NHS services;

· set out the financial and performance priorities the NHS should be delivering each year;

· report how much the NHS has spent on providing services each year;

· explore how the NHS can make the best use of its money;

· look at how spend on building or equipment can improve the care and experience of people using NHS services.

· consider how nationally we use these resources to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce inequality, improve health and support the NHS.

As Senior Lead - Accounts Production, you will lead on the production of the Consolidated NHS Provider Accounts. This will include overseeing the design and production of templates to collect and process accounts information from over 200 NHS providers and leading a team supporting finance staff across NHS providers to deliver high quality financial reporting.

The team offershigh profile, fast-paced projects. This requires adaptability, rigor and innovation and provides exciting development opportunities for those developing their careers in the NHS, health or the public sector.

Below are the types of skills and experience that we are looking for.Even if you feel you only meet some of the criteria, we encourage you to apply.

· A qualified accountant to lead on production of the Consolidated NHS Provider Accounts and supporting processes.

· Oversee the design of collection templates to collect accounts data from NHS providers, with a strategic view of risks in processes for collection of accounts data.

· Have an understanding of accounting requirements in the NHS and the ability to write guidance thereon.

· Experienced in producing IFRS accounts which may include consolidations.

· Strong attention to detail in reviewing accounts data and ensuring accuracy in consolidation adjustments.

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.

The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/ .

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Within Finance and Planning, we put the Equality Diversity and Inclusion commitment into practice with our staff led delivery group.

We want to see all parts of our community represented in our own team so we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply for jobs with us. Diverse teams are often the highest performing and welcome the range of experience that diversity brings to our teams.

Speak to us about flexible working arrangements - job share, part time or another flexible pattern. We are now working in a hybrid way across home and office locations and support flexible working arrangements. We want to be sure you can work in a way that is best for us, for you and for our patients.

Please see attached job description for further information about the responsibilities of this role. You can find further details about the role, a letter from the Deputy CFOs and advice on completing your application in the Document to download section.

To discuss this role please contact Eleanor Shirtliff oneleanor.shirtliff@nhs.net.


This advert closes on Tuesday 28 May 2024

I'm currently supporting an Accountancy Practice in their search for an Audit Senior. If you are a newly qualified or experienced Audit senior with a passion for supporting SMEs, then we'd love to hear from you.

Purpose of the role/key responsibilities:
* Execute planning and completion of audit work in line with internal processes and procedures and due consideration of resources and budget, with guidance
* Take responsibility for planning, fieldwork and completion of audits, taking a key role in the audit team, managing delivery expectations and highlighting any issues at an early stage
* Identify and undertake more complex audit areas during fieldwork stage, with guidance, and referring queries to more senior members of the audit team
* Attend planning and clearance meetings, taking an active role the meeting preparation, contributing to discussion and answering queries where appropriate, both from audit team and client
* Review draft accounts, issue to client and deal with any queries arising, with guidance
* Preparation of statutory financial statements from client's trial balance and advise on disclosures
* Work with the corporate tax team to provide corporation tax compliance and related advice
* Demonstrate the ability to act as the client's main point of contact on site during audit fieldwork, dealing with queries and identifying areas where other service lines could provide support
* Manage work delegated to junior members of the team while still being responsible for overall delivery to meet deadlines
* Demonstrate an understanding of recoveries, quotes provided for work, lock up, scope creep and WIP

Experience and skill set required for the role:
* A professional accountancy qualification - ICAEW/ACCA/ICAS or equivalent
* Newly qualified
* Previous experience of working in a similar role
* Experience of a client facing role
* Strong communication skills - both written and oral
* Ability to work on own initiative and to tight deadlines
* Self-motivated, with an ability to develop ideas into practice

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.