Accountant

 

Main characteristics

Location

Fordham, Cambridgeshire

Company

Candid Recruit

Employment type

Permanent

Category

Accounting / Financial / Insurance

Job summary

Qualified Accountant

Junior Accountants

Are you looking to Evolve your career?

When you join us, you will become part of our family, a team that cares passionately about your next career move. You will evolve as a person and will have the support needed to define your personal goals, and the help to achieve these. Your ideas will be valued.

You will be part of a team that really cares for its clients. You will be involved in inspiring and educating our clients to love and understand their numbers while helping them to achieve their personal and business goals.

Our core values are:

Initiative and independent thinking.
Communication, teamwork and assisting others.
Driving and embracing positive change and the use of systems.
Positive and constructive attitude.
Developing client relationships and improving client service.
Self-development and progress reflection
You will have the choice to work flexibly around our core hours and will have the opportunity to work remotely on occasion following successful completion of your probation period.

You will have a work-life balance. You will be shown how to organise your diary to prevent overwhelm. Your mental health is important to us, and we have a qualified Mental Health first aider in the firm to provide additional support if ever required.

You will receive regular training, and you will be given time to ensure that you keep up to date with the latest changes in accounting, taxation, and technology.

We have both summer away days, and Christmas events every year on top of random lunches every now and again. We all love a lunch!

Here is what some of our team have said about working with us:

As a new mum returning to work the flexibility and support has been key in helping me to find my feet as a working mum. They make sure I am able to achieve both having a career, and family life, without any of the guilt! Their flexibility ensures that I don't miss anything important and have a great work-life balance.

Claire - Dec 2023.

Everyone is friendly, approachable, and ready to help when needed and the atmosphere in the office is enjoyable as everyone has a good sense of humour.

Charlotte - Dec 2023.

What you will receive by working with us?

A competitive salary reviewed every year as a minimum. Our students are also rewarded by way of a salary increase for every successful exam result!
23 days holiday plus bank holidays as a minimum, depending on your time with the firm. There is no fighting for Christmas and New Year off as the office is closed.
We have a generous pension scheme by way of salary sacrifice.
If you are in one of the following groups, we would love to hear from you:

AAT and ATT Trainees and apprentices:

Youll need an eagerness to learn, to think on your feet and a desire to make an impact in the world.

We appreciate that starting a career can be daunting, but we have a supportive team who will support and nurture you through your studies.

ACCA and CIOT apprentices:

Ideally you will have 2 years practice experience and be confident in looking after clients, knowing when to pick up the phone, offer a zoom call, or just check in to make sure they are OK.

Qualified accountants:

You willhave a least 2 years post qualification experience in practice or be qualified by experience.

Be able to advise owner-managed business owners in basic tax planning.

Be comfortable with managing a small portfolio of clients.

Be willing to support and nurture the more junior members of the team.

Love to educate your clients on best tax, accounting or bookkeeping practices, systems, or processes, for their business.

Be a XERO whizz (expert)

Have excellent time management skills, organised, focused, and can work independently using your own initiative.

Your next step

We have four offices, Chatteris, Fordham, Baythorne End and Colchester. In the world of cloud-based software, with paperless offices, we have the ability to work with all the team wherever we are usually based. We use this to our advantage as we have certain specialists in different industries, whether agriculture, construction, retail or property, the list goes on..

The first step to join us is to send a CV, with a covering letter sharing why you feel we would be the perfect home for you.

We look forward to hearing from you