Insite Group
Accounts and Audit Senior
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Accounts & Audit Senior
£40,000 - £45,000 | Basildon | ACA/ACCA Qualified | Permanent
If you're a qualified practice accountant who enjoys variety, client contact, and having genuine ownership of your work, this could be a strong next step.
We're recruiting for an Accounts & Audit Senior to join a well-established accountancy practice supporting a diverse portfolio of SME clients. Based in Basildon, with occasional work from a nearby office and travel to client sites, this is a predominantly office-based opportunity offering a varied mix of accounts, tax, and audit.
With around 70% of the role focused on accounts and tax and 30% on audit, you'll have the opportunity to build strong client relationships while continuing to develop your audit expertise and supervisory experience.
The Opportunity
As an Accounts & Audit Senior, you'll take responsibility for your own portfolio, managing assignments with a high degree of independence while working closely with senior colleagues on more complex matters.
- Regular exposure to clients, giving you the opportunity to understand their businesses rather than simply processing figures
- Scope to increase your responsibilities over time, including taking on more complex clients, greater audit involvement, and further responsibility for junior team members
This role would suit someone with a solid practice background who is technically confident, commercially aware, and ready to take more ownership.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Preparing year-end statutory accounts for a portfolio of SME clients
- Completing corporation tax returns, including CT600s
- Preparing personal and self-assessment tax returns
- Reviewing accounting records and investigating potential accounting or tax issues
- Managing your own workload against internal and statutory deadlines
- Communicating directly with clients to obtain information and resolve queries
- Developing a strong understanding of clients and their wider financial needs
- Working alongside Directors on more complex accounts and tax assignments
- Planning and carrying out audit fieldwork
- Preparing clear, well-organised audit working papers and files
- Supporting statutory audits across companies, charities, and other entities
- Working with FRS 102 and relevant charity reporting requirements
- Taking responsibility for sections of audit assignments through to completion
- Raising and communicating audit issues where appropriate
- Supervising and reviewing the work of a junior team member
- Providing constructive feedback and helping develop junior colleagues
What We're Looking For
You'll need to be ACA or ACCA qualified, with at least four years' experience gained within a UK practice environment. We're particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:
- Strong experience preparing statutory year-end accounts
- Practical corporation tax and CT600 experience
- Experience with self-assessment tax returns
- A good working knowledge of FRS 102
- Experience across UK taxation, including corporation tax, income tax, and VAT
- Relevant statutory audit experience
- Strong Excel skills, including PivotTables
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines
- Confidence dealing directly with clients
- The ability to work independently and use initiative
- A commercially minded approach to understanding client businesses
- Experience reviewing or supervising junior staff
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Experience with Academy or charity audits would be particularly useful, as would familiarity with systems such as Caseware, BTC, Xero, QuickBooks, or Sage. A full UK driving licence and access to a car are required due to travel associated with client work and audit assignments.
What's On Offer
- £40,000 - £45,000, depending on experience and qualifications
- Permanent, full-time position
- Primarily office-based working in Basildon
- Variety across accounts, tax, and audit rather than a narrowly focused position
- Direct client exposure and the opportunity to build trusted relationships
- Regular interaction with experienced Directors
- Responsibility for your own client portfolio
- Supervisory experience with a junior team member
- Clear scope to increase your portfolio and level of responsibility
- The opportunity to strengthen your audit and client-management experience
- A supportive environment within an established accountancy practice
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