Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant £50,000 - £56,000 + Genuine Career Progression Client-Focused Accountancy Practice in North London, South Hampstead Accounts, Tax & Advisory Exposure Fancy a role where you're not just churning through compliance work, but actually building something with your clients? We're working with a well-regarded, growing accountancy practice on the hunt for an ambitious Senior Accountant. If you're ACA or ACCA qualified (or nearly there) and want more from your next move than another set of accounts to sign off, this is worth a proper look. Why this one's different Plenty of Senior roles are heads-down compliance. This isn't one of them. You'll get real exposure across accounts, tax, management information and advisory work, and you'll be working directly alongside Partners and Directors who actually want you developing, not just delivering. What you'll be doing • Preparing and reviewing statutory accounts for sole traders, partnerships and limited companies • Getting stuck into management accounts, budgets, forecasts and cashflow work • Reviewing bookkeeping and helping clients keep their own systems in good shape • Preparing and reviewing VAT returns and other compliance work • Corporation tax computations, deferred tax, and some personal tax • Giving clients genuinely useful commercial insight, not just number crunching • Building relationships where clients see you as their go-to adviser, not just their accountant • Reviewing trainees' work and helping them come on • Juggling deadlines across a varied portfolio without dropping the ball • Working alongside tax, audit and specialist teams to get the best outcome for clients What you'll bring • ACA or ACCA qualified, or close to it • 3-5 years in UK practice • Solid technical grounding across accounts and tax • Experience with owner-managed businesses and a mixed portfolio • Comfortable on Xero or QuickBooks (CaseWare is a bonus, not a must) • Sharp attention to detail and genuinely well organised • Confident talking to clients and building relationships, not just crunching numbers behind a screen • Ambitious and proactive, someone who wants to keep growing What's in this Senior Accountant for you • £50,000 - £56,000 depending on experience • A varied, interesting portfolio spanning accounts, tax and advisory • Real progression, not just promises of it • Ongoing technical training and development • A team that backs you and notices when you do good work • Direct exposure to experienced Partners and Directors • The chance to build into a genuinely well-rounded adviser, not a one-trick compliance specialist If this Senior Accountant role in South Hampstead, North London sounds like the kind of move you've been waiting for in accountancy, get in touch