About Penney's Accountancy
We are a bookkeeping, payroll and accountancy practice located in the heart of Farnborough, Hampshire.
We are a great fun-loving team who enjoy working together, supporting each other.
It gives us great pleasure to help our clients be a success which also has a positive effect on enabling our business to grow exponentially. We have lots of lovely testimonials (view testimonials) from our client and most of our new business comes from referrals from existing clients.
Chartered Accountant (with Business Development responsibilities)
We are looking for a strong, business-minded Chartered Accountant to join our very busy team in the heart of Farnborough.
This role is full time and permanent.
As well as having at least 10 years’ experience of Chartered Accountancy, the ideal candidate will hold a strong level of business acumen, be self-driven and aspire to create a success of the business.
You will be required to:
Assist with creating new business targets for gaining new clients
Create and manage marketing plans
Create business development strategies
Deputise when director is away
Build excellent client relationships
Create and categorise A, B and C client lists
Work with the team to create checklists to find opportunities for cross-selling or up-selling
Understand and present data showing the root causes for high or low profitability
Run and develop the team, ensuring maximum effectiveness of staff
Produce monthly / annual statistics on
Revenue vs forecast data
Profit vs budget
Enquiries to new business conversion
Average time to convert new clients
Attend and show productivity over quarterly performance reviews with the Director
Attend weekly meetings
We require you to have 7+ years of practical business development level experience, and to be
Disciplined, trustworthy and loyal
Proficient in Microsoft Office: Excel and Word
Able to communicate effectively with all clients
A good manager to team members
A strong leader to help run and develop each staff member
Self-driven
Easy going and flexible
Good at problem-solving
Have attention to detail
We use a wide range of software to run the business some of which is listed below.
Bookkeeping:
Xero (essential)
CIS (essential)
Quickbooks (advantageous)
Freeagent (advantageous)
Clearbooks (advantageous)
Payroll:
Moneysoft (essential)
Sage online (advantageous)
Freeagent (advantageous)
Xero (advantageous)
If you feel you have the right experience and hold these qualities, send us your CV below.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: TBC