Accountant

Company Description

Acuity Professional Group, a financial professional services firm, is dedicated to providing clients with simple and straightforward experiences while achieving sophisticated financial outcomes. We offer a range of services including tax, accounting, financial planning, audit, finance functions, tax advisory, corporate finance, wealth management, mortgages, and defined benefit pensions. We serve businesses and individuals, and support various charities through our charitable foundation.

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site position located in Chandigarh for an Accountant. The Accountant will be responsible for managing financial records, preparing financial statements, and ensuring compliance with tax regulations. Daily tasks include reconciling accounts, conducting audits, preparing tax returns, and providing financial advice to clients. The Accountant will also assist with budgeting, financial planning, and maintaining accurate books of accounts.

Accounting responsibilities

• Responsible for set up of new finance function clients
• Responsible for adhering to deadlines for monthly/quarterly management accounts, statutory reporting including year-end accounts.
• Should undertake continuous professional development trainings
• Completing, roll forwarding and updating the IRIS Stages in IRIS practice management.
• Filing the accounts with Companies House and HMRC
• Adhering to the deadline calendar (internal and external deadline)
• Xero and Hubdoc certified
• Review team’s work

Communication with Client manager

• Agree and circulate timetable of management reporting to internal team
• Escalate/inform issues to the Accounting manager/Client Manager well in advance, if unable to complete jobs in the budgeted time or in agreed timely manner.
• Proactively escalate the issue if any team member is facing any problem or concern
• Proactively identify the clients as at risk of withdrawal and alert the accounting manager/Client Manager
• Discussing the management reports and year end accounts with the AM/client manager
• Provide responses to AM/client manager’s email/queries in agreed timeline

Team Engagement

• Working with team to improve and optimize the current procedures being followed.
• Resolve team’s queries and concerns effectively.
• Provide training to new/existing accountants as and when required
• Mentor the Accountants and Sr. accountants with a proper plan & timeframe in mind.
• Ensuring the proper handover at the time of client transfer
• Ensuring the timely completion of internal processes / timelines like timesheet updations.

Essential requirements, attributes, and skills

• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Advanced knowledge of MS office
• Enthusiastic, honest and reliable.
• Outstanding attention to detail
• Delivers under pressure and prioritize tasks
• A flexible team player with a motivational hands-on approach and can-do attitude
• Uses initiative and actively identifies and resolves issues when they arise