Accounts Assistant in Chichester

Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

As an Assistant Accountant, you’ll support our client facing accounts team, working closely with the Associate Accountant. You’ll assist in preparing small company accounts and corporation tax returns while providing essential bookkeeping and administrative support. This role is ideal for someone currently studying AAT and looking to build their experience within an accountancy practice. This is an onsite role, working 5 days in our Chichester office location.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Bookkeeping – recording and tracking financial transactions
• Payroll processing
• Ensuring all payrolls are completed accurately and on time
• Preparing quarterly VAT returns
• Assisting with small company accounts and corporation tax returns, with support from senior team members
• Preparing financial accounts to trial balance
• Completing checks to ensure accuracy and compliance
• Providing general accounting and administrative support to the team
• Handling client communications and queries
• Managing day‑to‑day administrative tasks

About You

What We’re Looking For:

• Ideally currently studying AAT (part qualified) or AAT qualified - this is a minimum requirement.
• Experience working within an accountancy practice
• The ability to prepare accounting records to trial balance
• Experience preparing financial accounts
• Proven customer‑facing experience
• Strong track record of meeting deadlines
• Excellent working knowledge of Excel
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Confident communicating with colleagues at all levels
• Able to work independently and recognise when to escalate issues
• Willingness to work on‑site in Chichester five days a week for supervision and development
• Interest in developing skills in personal tax returns (full training provided)

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You:

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
• We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.
• This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
• We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
• Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose.
• We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
• Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are.