Job title: Accounts Manager – part time

Renumeration:  circa £20 per hour (depending on experience), plus company performance bonus

Hours:  15/20 hours per week, over 3/4 days but can be flexible to suit the right candidate

Are you an experienced accountant looking for a new and varied role, which not only provides the opportunity for personal development but where you can be involved in decision making and actively contribute to the development of the business going forward?  If so, we have an excellent opportunity for an experienced accountant to join our young and dynamic team in the Corporate Finance sector.  Reporting directly to our Managing Director, the successful applicant will join the business as our Accounts Manager, based in our Chichester office. 

Working as part of our Management Team, the Accounts Manager will be responsible for all areas relating to the Company’s accounts and financial reporting and will be responsible for developing and maintaining accounting principles, practices and procedures to ensure accurate and timely financial statements and reporting.

You will be self-motivated, proactive and enjoy a varied role.  This is a ‘sleeves rolled up’ position where the Accounts Manager will need to undertake a multitude of accounting activities including, being responsible for all day-to-day accounting duties, payroll preparation, monthly management accounts reporting, year-end audit preparation and the support of budget and forecast activities.  In addition to this, you will have responsibility for a junior member of the team, currently undertaking their Bookkeeping AAT level 3 course.

To be successful in this role you will need exceptional accountancy and presentation skills, be highly committed to quality and excellence and lead with initiative.  Strong interpersonal and written communication skills are absolutely necessary, as the role will involves extensive collaboration with the team, our suppliers, clients and our external accountancy firm.

Evolution Capital is a market-leading corporate finance boutique, exclusively advising business owners and management teams in the ICT sector on business divestitures, mergers & acquisitions, fund raising as well as organic value improvement programmes. Our team moto is ‘no one of us is as smart as all of us’ and we demonstrate that by working in a highly collaborative, customer centric and quality improvement focused environment.

We have offices in London and on the south coast in Chichester. This role is based from our Chichester office, so it is absolutely essential candidates live within an easy daily commute from the office. Additionally, there may be some travel across the UK.

Role responsibilities include

• Day to day bookkeeping, to include general bookkeeping duties using the Xero platform, processing expenses & disbursements, setting up the payment run, creation and processing of invoices, credit control, monthly budgets, cash flow forecasting.
• Monthly/quarterly duties, to include preparation of payroll, quarterly staff bonus calculations, monthly and quarterly VAT returns and liaising with the external accountancy firm to support year end accounts production.
• Management information reporting, to include creating monthly management accounts, production of monthly/quarterly revenue forecasts and track against actuals, updating management team with financial performance and assist with the development and execution of the Company Business Plan.
• General duties, to include daily management of junior bookkeeper, allocating, overseeing and checking of basic bookkeeping tasks, contributing to the continuing strategic development of the business by being an active member of the Leadership Team, assist in achieving the Company’s Human Resource Plan objectives by contributing to the development of the remuneration plan and planning and supporting the Managing Director with any ad-hoc analysis and tasks.

Skills & experience we seek

• Part/full qualification in ACCA, ACMA or ACA or highly experienced qualified AAT.
• Experience of creating management reporting and of managing company accounts (journals, accruals, balance sheet and P&L reporting), preferably within a SME environment.
• You must be organised, accurate, have attention to detail and be able to work using your own initiative.
• Experience of working on the Xero platform.
• Excellent/advanced IT skills are required, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• A proactive and friendly personality with strong interpersonal communication skills, both written and verbal and comfortable working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to multi-task, work under pressure and meet deadlines required.
• Ability to daily commute to the office in Chichester.