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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, and 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 clients 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 in 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
