Job Description What will you be doing ? We are seeking a talented Associate to join our Business Outsourcing Services team in Beaconsfield. In your role, you will be working with clients and their finance teams or bookkeepers, helping them with their year-end accounts, management accounts, bookkeeping, VAT returns and cloud accounting software support. This means providing services, advice and solutions that really make a difference.You will also gain exposure to working with Partners and invaluable experience working with senior members of staff. Progression within this team is fast, with responsibility from an early stage. Once studying for your chartered qualifications, you will be taking on a more senior role and helping to supervise the new intake of trainees. As your experience grows, you may have opportunities to experience other ad hoc assignments that our clients request our help with such as: one-off software implementation projects, cloud accounting software 'health-checks' or client secondments to assist their finance function. You will also receive internal training from the professional services learning and development team. This is a permanent role to be based at our Beaconsfield office, full-time 5 days per week. As an Associate - Business Outsourcing Services, you responsibilities will include among others Working as part of a team to provide clients with a range of services including statutory accounts, bookkeeping, management accounts, VAT returns, software implementation and 'health-checks' of their systems Developing an understanding of our clients and their businesses Keeping your manager fully informed of any issues and problems, ensuring the work is completed to a level agreed with the manager and recording clearly and concisely the work carried out Becoming familiar with our internal accounting software as well as other cloud accounting technologies Providing advice and solutions to clients in response to their accounting queries Using automation to improve efficiencies for our clients' finance function Prioritising tasks for your own portfolio of clients, whilst monitoring time against budget