Location: Rajkot (On-site)
Working Hours: 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM IST (UK overlap required)
Reporting to: UK Finance Manager
Role Overview
We are looking for a detail-driven and process-oriented Senior Accountant to manage bookkeeping quality, month-end accuracy, and financial controls across a group of UK-based companies.
This role goes beyond transaction entry. The successful candidate will ensure accounts are complete, properly accrued, reconciled, and review-ready each month while acting as a second-level reviewer for bookkeeping activities.
You will work closely with an existing bookkeeper and the UK Finance Manager to strengthen accounting discipline, documentation standards, and reporting readiness.
Key Responsibilities 1. Accounting Ownership & Bookkeeping Oversight
- Maintain accurate records of sales, purchases, expenses, bank transactions, and journals in QuickBooks.
- Ensure correct ledger coding, VAT treatment, and cost centre usage.
- Maintain structured digital documentation with all supporting files linked to transactions.
- Support and guide existing bookkeeping work while ensuring consistency across entities.
2. Accrual Accounting & Month-End Discipline
- Ensure accounts are maintained on a true accrual basis , not cash basis.
- Prepare and post recurring monthly journals such as:
- Directors’ remuneration
- Software/CRM subscriptions
- Retainers and contracted services
- Other predictable operational costs
- Review trial balances to identify missing accruals or misstatements.
- Maintain a structured month-end timetable and closing process.
3. Financial Review & Internal Controls
- Perform structured second-level review of bookkeeping for:
- Accuracy of coding
- Completeness of entries
- Consistency across companies
- Ensure timely completion of:
- Bank reconciliations
- Credit card reconciliations
- VAT reconciliation
- Payroll reconciliation
- Directors’ loan accounts
- Intercompany balances
- Maintain month-end checklists and provide confirmation of completion.
4. Documentation, Process Improvement & Coordination
- Proactively follow up on missing invoices, statements, or documentation.
- Maintain accounting process notes, journal templates, and reconciliation schedules.
- Identify discrepancies, unusual transactions, or risks and escalate with recommendations.
- Help ensure accounting workflows are not dependent on any single individual.
5. Management Reporting Support
- Assist in preparing monthly management accounts including:
- Profit & Loss
- Balance Sheet
- Supporting schedules
- Generate periodic reports such as:
- Aged receivables and payables
- Expense breakdowns
- Key overhead analysis
Candidate Profile Education
- Graduate in Accounting / Commerce / Finance.
- CA / CMA / CPA (or pursuing) preferred but not mandatory with strong experience.
Experience
- Minimum 3–5+ years in accounting/bookkeeping roles.
- Experience handling multi-entity accounts preferred.
- Prior exposure to UK clients or international accounting environments is highly desirable.
- Comfortable working in outsourced or remote finance teams.
Technical Skills
- Strong understanding of:
- Double-entry accounting
- Accrual accounting principles
- Prepayments, provisions, and adjustments
- Hands-on experience with QuickBooks Online (multi-company preferred).
- Strong Excel skills for reconciliations and schedules.
- Familiarity with UK VAT and accounting practices is beneficial (training available).
Behaviour & Working Style
- Extremely detail-oriented with a natural tendency to verify numbers.
- Structured and deadline-driven, especially during month-end.
- Able to communicate clearly when information is incomplete or inconsistent.
- Comfortable collaborating with UK-based stakeholders.
- Strong written and spoken English.
Success Metrics
- All reconciliations completed within agreed month-end timelines.
- Standard accruals posted consistently across all entities.
- Supporting documentation properly attached in QuickBooks.
- Reduction in errors and manual corrections required at final reporting stage.
- Clear audit trail and month-end sign-off documentation maintained.
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