Trust Accountant
Location: London
Salary:
To provide an accounting and tax service for trust clients.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Maintain ledgers for clients, ensuring that bank statements are posted, preparing accounts for manager and client approval using computerised systems.
- Produce clients’ accounts for audit purposes, taking accounts to balance sheet and profit and loss levels.
- Produce tax computations, based on the accounts, to review standards.
- Carry out client instructions such as arranging telex transfers, promptly and accurately.
- Carry out client instructions and administer such activities as paying in and drawing cheques and arranging telex transfers to ensure company accounts are kept up to date.
- Produce reports and reconciliations of clients' bank balances ensuring that entries have been made properly.
- Any accounting or STEP qualification are preferable
- At least 3 years of trust and estate tax and accounting work.
- Use of MYOB (ex-Solution 6) Trust Accounts and/or Pertax is preferable
- Open to people in general accounting on private clients side
- Good time-keeper, uses initiative, team player