Accounts Assistant Bidwells are looking for an Accounts Assistant to work in our Client Accounting team in our Rural division in Cambridge. It is an exciting time to join our Cambridge office, where we work in an agile way, making the best use of our space and technology to make our colleagues feel empowered to be at their best, to encourage collaboration and to support our values and culture. The Client Accounting team provide bookkeeping, accounts production, payroll and taxation services to the firm's clients, from small farms to large institutions. This role will take responsibility for accounting tasks and managing a portfolio of these clients. The role The list of responsibilities is varied so this will be a great opportunity for the right person to become immersed in the running of an accounts team. You'll get involved with everything, including: accounts preparation; dealing with payroll for clients; preparation of monthly management reports for clients; preparation of monthly bank reconciliations and monitoring client overdraft/retention levels and expiry dates; maintenance of bank balance reports; completing and reconciling VAT returns and assisting with VAT inspections; monitoring the property rental system and processing of transactions; and assisting the accounts manager in management of the client portfolio. Essential requirements You must be or close to being AAT Level 4 qualified and had previous work experience within an office environment in an accounting role It's important to us that you are organised, take pride in your work and have a high attention to detailand the ability to use your own initiative As you will be interacting with internal colleagues and clients on a regular basis, being confident in communicating with a wide range of people and having a professional telephone manner is key Confident and experienced user of Microsoft programs, especially outlook, excel and word and accounting packages. Previous experience of Greentree and Propman would be useful but not essential We will pay you competitively and give you some great benefits. Better still, you'll be treated fairly and be part of the team from day one. If this sounds like you - then we would like to hear from you. If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please click to apply and one of our Resourcing team will be in touch.