Bookkeeper – Bedford

Bookkeeper, Bedford (accountancy practice) £30,000-£35,000 depending on experience and quals. Part/Full time

Abacus Consulting are pleased to be supporting a well established accountancy practice in Bedford in their search for a bookkeeper

This is a permanent role, part or full time considered.  Working as part of a team in a busy practice, your duties as the Bookkeeper will include:

• Accounts prep and submission
• Working with a varied client portfolio
• Management accounts, VAT, Payroll
• CIS and HMRC returns
• Provide ad hoc bookkeeping support to clients
• Support colleagues with workload as and when needed

Candidates must have all round bookkeeping experience, ideally in accountancy practice. Cloud accounts experience would be nice to have. Easily accessible location. Friendly and supportive team. Onsite parking.

Credit Manager – Northampton

Credit Manager, Northampton, Hybrid Working , Competitive Salary + Benefits

A new role for a Credit Manger has arisen with this established and well known organisation.  To lead a credit control team in its day to day responsibilities and provide support to the Head of Credit in the development and performance of the team.

As the Credit Manager, your duties will include:

• Responsibility for leading the teams to deliver business KPI’s, productivity levels and quality targets whilst developing a culture of high performance
• Assess all requests and review all credit limits up to £500,000.
• Work with senior stakeholders  to ensure that the actions taken by Credit Services are understood and to gain buy-in in dealing with escalated issues
• Driving continuous performance improvement of all team members through building skills coaching, knowledge and overall competence, ensuring personal development plans are in place and regularly reviewed
• Accountable for delivering and evidencing robust performance management practices within the team through reporting processes
• Responsible for ensuring that workloads and demand is constantly reviewed and looking to optimise efficiency
• Visit customers and branches on a regular basis to ensure high value queries/disputes and payment delays are resolved

The best suited candidate will hold previous Team Leader or Supervisory experience. together with strong organisational skills, the ability to work to deadlines and strong leadership skills.

Payroll Specialist – St Albans

Payroll Specialist, St Albans, £32,000-£34,000+ Excellent benefits, including perkbox. Hybrid working after onboarding & training.

Abacus Consulting are delighted to be partnering a well-established accountancy practice in St Albans in their search for a Payroll Specialist.

This is a permanent full time role, office based to start with, then a hybrid arrangement.  Working in a busy payroll team your duties as the Payroll Specialist will include:

• Managing multiple payrolls
• Inputting data onto multiple workflow systems and payroll systems
• Payroll journals
• Year end payroll returns
• Query resolution
• Provide support to team as and when needed

The ideal candidate will have start to finish payroll experience in accountancy practice dealing with 3rd party payrolls. Must have strong communication and interpersonal skills and be confident handling sensitive information

Excellent benefits including loyalty awards and perkbox. Generous annual leave including 3 gifted days over Christmas/New Year.

City centre location. High quality offices. Easily accessible on Thameslink and short walk to office. Onsite parking.

Manufacturing / Cost Accountant – Brackley

Cost Accountant, CIMA/ACCA qualified, Brackley, £££Competitive

Qualified Accountant with strong experience of accounting for manufacturing processes. The role will involve analysis of large volumes of data, providing insight into manufacturing costs and the accounting treatment of inventory.

This role will provide data led insight into our inventory environment and will be responsible for reporting, planning and ensuring strong data integrity.

The scope of the role covers manufacturing activities through to assembly and the internal consumption or external distribution of inventory. The application of the Financial Regulations to the inventory environment also makes this a critical and unique role in our team.

As the Cost Accountant your key accountabilities will include:

• Deliver standardised financial reporting, providing insight into inventory position from both statutory and financial regulations perspectives.
• Drive financial decision-making processes by interpreting data trends, providing narratives for key stakeholders, and ensuring that decisions are backed by operational insights.
• Produce inventory budgets and forecasts from a P&L, Balance Sheet, and cash perspective, ensuring variances to plans are clearly understood and communicated to stakeholders.
• Align with the Cost Analyst team to ensure cohesion in inventory planning and reporting.
• Ensure there is robust and clear reporting on the manufacturing environment and own and manage the item costing approach, including the management of manufacturing related SAP master data.
• Drive continuous review and improvement of the manufacturing recoveries process, including a review of rates used, and direction of Cost Analyst team to support with investigation activities.
• Identify and support inventory-related financial regulation optimisation initiatives.
• Identify opportunities for process and system improvements, working closely with business transformation and ERP optimisation teams to implement efficient solutions.
• Preparation of responses to Financial Regulation and Statutory Audit topics.
• Support capital expenditure request processes related to inventory.

Candidate Profile

• CIMA/ACCA qualified with post qualified experience in financial planning and reporting or similar role in large, complex organisations, and ideally with a relevant degree.
• Previous experience of complex Inventory Management in a manufacturing environment.
• An understanding of Inventory costing methodologies e.g. Standard Costs and Manufacturing cost management e.g. variance management.
• Ability to build and maintain excellent cross functional working relationships, responding to their needs and guiding where appropriate.
• A Strong Communicator with the ability to influence key decisions.
• An ability to navigate detail whist also being able to summarise and communicate a position effectively.
• Highly proficient in Excel.
• Adaptable and forward looking, embracing a fast-paced working environment.
• Attention to detail and proficiency to self-review.
• Experience of SAP would be an advantage.

Tronc Administrator – St Albans

Tronc Administrator, customer facing compliance role, St Albans, £30,000

Abacus Consulting are delighted to be partnering a well established accountancy practice in St Albans recruiting an Administrator for their Tronc team. This is not a mainstream accounting/finance role.  As the Tronc Administrator, your duties will include:

• Dealing with requests and communications from businesses, and build up a sound working relationship with a portfolio of clients
• Reviewing and analysing data submitted by clients
• Filing electronically to our paperless document management system
• Updating databases and records to reflect client’s requests

Great role that will offer comprehensive training and ongoing development. Excellent benefits on offer. Hybrid working after initial onboarding and training. Candidates must enjoy working with numbers and data. Must have advanced Excel skills

Parking is available. Office is within walking distance of city centre/St Albans Thameslink. High quality office space.

Accounts Receivable Clerk – Milton Keynes

Accounts Receivable Clerk – Milton Keynes – £27,000

We are delighted to be partnering with a UK leading facility management business in Milton Keynes. They need an experienced Accounts Receivable clerk to join their established head office team.

As the Accounts Receivable Clerk your duties will include:

• Producing invoices and credit notes
• Actioning termination of contracts
• Sending customer statements
• Processing cheques received.
• Direct Debit administration
• Dealing with invoicing queries in an effective and timely manner

The successful Accounts Receivable Clerk will have:

• Ability to work accurately in a busy, demanding environment, whilst adhering to stringent deadlines.
• Reliable, conscientious, and dedicated.
• Salesforce experience desirable but not essential.
• A flexible team player with the ability to work proactively.

This is a fantastic role for an experienced Accounts receivable clerk, with Hybrid working. Please get in touch to find out more.

Credit Controller – Milton Keynes

Experienced Credit Controller needed to manage established ledger in MK, to £30k

We are delighted to be partnered with a long established business in the foodservice industry who are looking for an experienced Credit Controller to join their dynamic and busy finance team.  This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled professional to play a crucial role in maintaining and improving the financial health of our clients business.

Key Responsibilities of the Credit Controller:

• Manage a portfolio of customer debtor accounts to ensure timely payments.
• Process incoming funds accurately and promptly.
• Proactively chase overdue invoices and manage debt recovery procedures.
• Investigate and resolve account queries in a professional and timely manner.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers to support account management and payment processes.
• Collaborate closely with internal teams to ensure the smooth running of credit control operations.

 What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience in a credit control role.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport with clients.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage a busy workload and meet deadlines.
• Open and enthusiastic approach whilst remaining firm and professional
• Confident user of SAP and Excel.

This role offers great benefits, salary and WFH opportunities. If you would like to know more, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

VAT Manager – St Albans

VAT Manager, established accountancy practice, St Albans (or Central London), hybrid, to £70,000

Providing VAT service to range of SME businesses. Reporting directly to the partners acting as technical expert on VAT and Indirect tax issues in UK and Europe.

Working for an 8 partner firm employing around 90 staff, ranging from apprentices to highly experienced managers.

The business provides the full range of professional services typically provided by an established and progressive accountancy firm, including audit and accounts, management consultancy, payroll and taxation. We aim to be the ‘go to’ firm for small and medium sized enterprises providing a truly excellent professional service that is tailored to meet clients’ needs and requirements. Our clients range from all fields of business, industry, the professions and arts, including large corporates operating nationally and internationally, privately owned businesses of every size, partnerships, sole traders and self-employed individuals.

Role Summary

The VAT Manager leads the delivery of the firm’s VAT, providing support to managers and staff in both London and St Albans, reporting in to the Partners. This will include acting as a technical specialist in relation to VAT and indirect tax matters and taking an active role in enhancing the firm’s offering through identifying and maximising opportunities with existing clients.

It will also involve developing new client relationships through networking and strategic business development.

Experience of European VAT issues and Customs Duty will be essential as the UK continues to negotiate and transitions its departure from the European Union, together with ensuring the firm’s clients are fully advised regarding any UK VAT.

Prior experience within a management position will also be required and this position can provide a route to Directorship

As VAT Manager your duties will include:

• Take responsibility for the management and development of the firm’s VAT services and use technical skills and expertise to contribute to the firm’s business profile in this area. This will include acting as a technical specialist, providing advice and support to the wider business on VAT issues and identifying potential tax planning opportunities for clients.

• Develop the firm’s internal processes and procedures in relation to VAT work, addressing areas of risk and improving consistency of approach in relation to VAT compliance work.

• Provide management support as required, ensuring appropriate work is allocated, work is supervised effectively to ensure quality and efficiency and regular feedback on performance is provided.

• 90% of work will be allocated from existing clients, however we welcome the opportunity for this role to develop their own portfolio and grow the VAT offering, hence the opportunity to progress to Director over time.

Commercial Accountant – Milton Keynes

Commercial Accountant – Milton Keynes – up to £29,500

Our client, a global leader in sales incentives and employee, channel and customer engagement are looking to appoint a Commercial Accountant to their successful Finance team. You will work closely with the Client facing teams to ensure the quality of project finance on a timely basis.

As the Commercial Accountant your duties will include:

• Month end management accounts responsibilities including delivery of month end close, ensuring integrity of postings and timely input of transactions and reconciliation of designated nominal accounts
• Year end accounting and support
• Assist with the preparation of the Statutory reporting, and collation/completion of year end audit schedules
• Full responsibility for the financial management of clients, from understanding and supporting preparation & uploading of budgets and forecasts to review of client performance
• Liaise with project teams to ensure invoicing schedules are up-to-date and raise/check invoices/credit notes, as appropriate

 The successful candidate will have:  

• Part-Qualified or Qualified AAT
• Strong excel spreadsheet skills
• Self-motivated with good problem solving skills
• Able to work within tight deadlines

With incredible benefits, hybrid working and the potential for study support in the future, this is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking to grow their skills in an interesting and thriving business. To find out more, please get in touch!

Management Accountant – Systems Implementation Support

Systems Management Accountant – Milton Keynes – Interim 6-9 months – c£60,000 p.a 

Our client, a well established local organisation in Milton Keynes known for their excellent working conditions and benefits, are seeking a Management Accountant with Systems Implementation experience  to join them on a temporary basis until December 2025.

As the Systems Management Accountant, your duties will include

• Assisting with the integration of the new system and being the key point of contact within the finance team 
• Developing processes
• Resolving system issues
• Project support
• Delivering training

It is essential that you have extensive accounting experience (ideally CIMA or ACCA Qualified) and have previously managed/been actively involved with a system implementation/integration.  SAP would be desirable.

There is the potential for this role to become permanent.