Experienced Accounts Assistant / Bookkeeper
You're already good at this. You're just doing it somewhere that's stopped noticing.
We're looking for an experienced accounts assistant / bookkeeper to manage a portfolio of their own clients, help keep our VAT deadlines on track, and support our offshore team. Here, the deadline is the floor, not the target.
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 3–4 days · 21–28 hrs / week £15–£17 per hour Flexible working
You close the books cleanly. You spot the messy reconciliation before it becomes a problem. You've trained more clients on Xero than you can count, and you quietly fix processes nobody else thought to question.
The work is solid — but the role around it has gone flat. No room to grow. No one really noticing the standard you work to. No path that points anywhere new.
This is that path.
You want to see where your potential can go, and you don't want to limit what's possible in the next chapter of your life.
You feel like you've got so much more to give — and you're excited by what comes next.
Who you'd be joining
We're Gro — and we think like ambitious business owners.
Because we are ones ourselves. You get all the rigour and experience you'd expect from a chartered-certified accountancy practice — but with a modern approach that goes well beyond what traditional accountants do.
We don't stop at compliance. We add real value, build long-term relationships, and genuinely set out to change the lives of the people we work with — the owners, their teams, and the customers they serve.
And that includes our own team. If we're helping clients build better businesses and better lives, we should be doing exactly the same for the people who make Gro what it is.
The role
This is your time to shine.
You'll be responsible for managing a portfolio of your own bookkeeping clients. You'll also check in with two of our offshore team members — helping everyone stay aligned on priorities, and helping them with any questions about liaising and communicating with clients. And you'll be a key part of managing the VAT return deadlines across the business.
But the real job is bigger than clean ledgers. Bookkeeping done properly is the foundation a business stands on — it's how an owner finally gets the clarity, the tools and the real numbers to make confident decisions instead of guessing.
Ideally you're an all-rounder who can also help with management accounts, sole trader accounts, tax returns and more. And it ripples outward. When an owner can see their business clearly, their life changes — which changes life for their team, and for every customer those teams look after. You'd be one of the people making sure that foundation is rock-solid: the right work, done to the right standard, comfortably ahead of every deadline.
- Yours Your own portfolio of bookkeeping clients 2 Offshore team members you'll check in with 28th VAT filed by — a week clear of HMRC
Day to day
Less reconciling and moving on. More owning your clients, your deadlines and the quality of the work.
Manage your own portfolio
Look after a portfolio of your own bookkeeping clients, planning and prioritising your work in Karbon.
Keep VAT deadlines on track
Be a key part of managing the VAT return deadlines across the business — ideally filed by the 28th, giving clients a week to ten days' breathing room.
Check in with the team
Check in with two of our offshore team members to stay aligned on priorities, and help them with client questions and client communication.
Be a true all-rounder
Help with management accounts, sole trader accounts, tax returns and more — not just the bookkeeping.
Talk to clients like a human
Pick up the phone, run a bit of Xero training, keep the relationship warm.
Ask the question we love
How could this be automated, streamlined, made better? Then go make it so.
You'll stay in sync with everyone through our weekly production meeting and the daily 10am huddle — fifteen minutes, no drama, just everyone on the same page.
The stack you'll use
A modern, automated practice — we tool up to do great work, not tick boxes.
- Xero The books Apron Receipts Karbon Practice management TaxCalc Year-end Xenon Connect Quality Syft Client reporting
Payroll experience (BrightPay) is a lovely-to-have for emergency cover — we've a dedicated payroll manager, so it's a bonus, not a requirement.
Our core values
Four things we genuinely live by — not a poster on the wall, but how we hire, how we work, and how we show up for each other and our clients every day.
Bring the energy
Batteries included
We show up with genuine enthusiasm. Being around us should lift you — energising and real, never fake‑positive or flat.
Above the line
Ownership & accountability
No blame, no excuses, no denial. When something goes wrong we look at ourselves first and focus on what we can actually do about it.
Kaizen
Continuous improvement
Always learning, always 1% better. We never stand still — for our clients, our team, or ourselves.
Bring the magic
The extra bit of wow
We go above and beyond. There's always a little extra wow we can add for the people we're lucky enough to serve.
You, if this rings true
At least five years in practice. Either AAT qualified or qualified by experience — we care more about what you can do than what's framed on the wall.
An all-rounder who's as comfortable with management accounts, sole trader accounts and tax returns as with the books — and enjoys bringing order to a workload.
Independent and self‑motivated, but a real communicator — happy supporting a remote team and talking to clients like a human being.
Curious about technology and AI in this industry. We don't think it replaces good people — we think it makes good people brilliant.
Probably not your move if…
You want to keep your head down, do exactly your job description and nothing more.
You treat “above the line” as jargon rather than how you actually work.
You reach for excuses before ownership when something goes wrong.
We look for ownership, not excuses. We look at ourselves first when something goes wrong. And we look for the small chance to bring a bit of magic to a client — the unexpected bit of wow.
What a typical day could look like
7:30: Up, maybe a walk, breakfast.
9:00: Laptop on. Check Slack, glance at your week, clear the inbox.
10:00: The huddle — quick catch-up, including a check-in with our offshore team on priorities and any client questions.
10:15: Coffee, then a proper 60‑minute blast on your priority jobs.
13:00: Gym at lunch if that's your thing, back for a bite.
14:00: Back at your desk — work through your own clients' bookkeeping and keep the VAT returns on track.
15:00: You might pick up the phone and call a client to talk through some bookkeeping questions they've got.
Afternoon: Slack cleared, one more focus block, and done.
Though that's just one version. Prefer to start at 5am or 10am? Completely up to you. As long as you do a great job and put your hours in, the shape of your day is yours.
A practice that builds careers around people
…not people around roles. We scope and shape jobs over time to suit what you're actually good at — and love doing.
A modern, tech-driven practice
Feels more like a marketing company than a suited‑and‑booted firm — but chartered certified, and serious about clients' money.
Generous holiday & pension
Proper time off to switch off, and a pension that's looked after.
Work lunches on us
Regularly — because the best chats happen over food.
Genuine flexibility
Hours and shape that work around your life, not the other way round.
A career that's future‑proof
We tool up accountants to build relationships and add real value — not tick boxes.
A team that lifts each other
Bring the real energy — the version of you that turns up as your best self.
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Contact Details:
Gro Profit First Accountants Ltd. Recruitment Team
