BDO Wave - BSO Senior Accountant

The Business Services and Outsourcing team are essential to meeting our clients' evolving requirements. As well as delivering long-term, sustainable value to businesses by providing a range of solutions such as accounting, payroll and compliance services, they also play a key role in tying together many of our services across BDO both domestically and internationally. By building deep and meaningful relationships with a range of clients from ambitious entrepreneurial SMEs to large multi-national groups, our BS&O team don’t just advise on their specific business challenges, they open doors for other teams to provide our firm’s wider service offering. To succeed in this agile environment, you’ll need to demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills and initiative. In return, you’ll have the opportunity for progression, and the chance to develop in one of the industry’s most exciting and varied roles.

Technical Responsibilities:

• Deal with bookkeeping including preparing, processing, and recording bank transactions, processing purchase, sales, and general ledger entries for a wide variety of clients on a number of accounting packages, including the group’s larger more complex clients.
• Prepare monthly annual management accounts and VAT returns with little supervision.
• Maintain and build relationships with clients and ensure that all communications are conducted in a professional manner.
• Build trust and connect with clients and targets by listening and showing empathy and patience.
• Demonstrate a sound awareness of how businesses operate, the commercial environment, and its impact on the client’s business.
• Train junior members on accounts software and other processes critical to their current or future work.
• Analyse data and offer explanations and solutions where information is not captured efficiently, or where financial performance is not in line with budgets or business plan.

Education and Experience:

• Bcom majoring in accounting with 1 – 2 years bookkeeping experience.
• SAIPA/AGA training contract would be an advantage
• Proven experience of management accounts preparation.
• Good VAT knowledge (including VAT return preparation experience) and a sound understanding of the basics of Corporate tax.
• Experience of statutory audit file preparation and liaison with audit teams (preferable not essential).
• Competent in the use of Microsoft Excel and Office and use of all standard in-house packages.
• Solid bookkeeping skills and good working knowledge of Xero and other cloud accounting software.

Personal Responsibilities:

• Keep up to date with all technical and commercial developments.
• Works independently and exercises a degree of judgement and adaptability in own decisions and actions.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Demonstrates excellent analytical and research skills.
• Self-motivated and able to apply relevant skills to new scenarios.
• Ability to work under pressure with accuracy and focus.
• Good team member who can encourage and support others at all levels.
• Acknowledges and praises people for their effort and achievements.
• Seeks regular feedback on own performance and acts on findings.
• Sets realistic but stretching performance targets for self and others.
• Knows own strengths and limitations.
• Embraces change with an adaptable and flexible working attitude.