Right Fit is supporting an established business services group in recruiting a Client Accountant to join its growing Client Accounting team.

You’ll manage your own portfolio of clients, build lasting relationships and support the development of junior colleagues. Reporting to Managers and Team Leaders, you’ll combine hands-on accounting work with technical review and mentoring responsibilities.

Your responsibilities

• Prepare management accounts for your client portfolio and coordinate annual audits, ensuring auditors receive the information needed to meet statutory deadlines.
• Prepare and submit VAT returns, and review returns prepared by other team members.
• Review financial statements, including complex disclosures.
• Monitor work across your own portfolio and those of junior colleagues to ensure statutory requirements and client deadlines are met.
• Build strong client relationships, attend client meetings and support junior colleagues in their client interactions.
• Guide and mentor junior team members, review their work and help resolve technical accounting and VAT queries.
• Hold regular catch-ups with junior colleagues to review progress, priorities and development needs.
• Support ongoing compliance monitoring within the accounting department.
• Liaise with internal departments to obtain documentation for financial statements and statutory returns.
• Identify significant accounting matters and escalate them to management.
• Promote internal procedures and best practices, identifying opportunities to improve service quality.
• Help identify training needs and contribute to departmental training and technical articles.

What we’re looking for

• A recognised, completed accountancy qualification.
• At least two years of experience in a client accounting environment.
• Strong technical knowledge of client accounting and VAT.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Outlook and Word, as well as SAGE.
• Very good written and spoken English, with confidence communicating with clients and colleagues.
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills, with close attention to detail.
• The ability to prioritise competing assignments and work independently.
• A responsible, ethical approach to handling sensitive financial information.
• A collaborative attitude, willingness to learn and enthusiasm for supporting colleagues.