The Business & Opportunity:

Our client is a friendly and established firm of Chartered Accountants in Leeds who, due to increased workload, are looking to add to their team.

Working with their varied client based of fast-growth businesses across multiple sectors, you will help across both the payroll and bookkeeping departments.

They offer a truly hybrid approach, with a mix of home and office working (based in LS16 on the North West side of Leeds).

Your Responsibilities:

* Processing both weekly and monthly payrolls

* Maintaining active contact with client base

* Auto enrolment onto

* Preparation of management accounts.

* Ensuring correct VAT rates have been applied and preparing and submitting client VAT returns.

* Ongoing work with MTD (Making Tax Digital), helping clients with cloud software to make use of various apps to streamline the bookkeeping process.

* Employee expenses, multi-currency bank reconciliation, credit card reconciliation.

* PAYE entry onto ledgers.

* Bank reconciliations and control accounts.

* Processing transactions.

* Customer focused, communicating effectively both internally and externally to ensure that the highest standards are maintained with the client base.

Skills and Experience required:

* Experience in Payroll and Bookkeeping

* A good level of knowledge and experience of using Xero/Sage would be highly preferred.

* Knowledge of VAT Regulations and MTD.

* Work well under pressure, maintaining a friendly and professional manner.

* A solution finder, able to work through problems effectively.

* Attention to detail and accuracy.

* Excellent organisational skills.

* Confident, motivated and have excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

What's on Offer:

* Competitive salary of £28,000-£32,000

* Hybrid working and flexitime.

* Free On-site parking.

* Generous Holiday Allowance.

* Auto-enrolment Pension.

Next Steps:

* Interviews are to be conducted imminently, hence you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

N.B. Lyons Recruitment have been retained on an exclusive basis, hence any direct or other agency applications with be disregarded