Accounts Associate

Company Description

At S&W, we help our clients thrive by simplifying the complex, illuminating new paths, and shaping solutions that make a difference. As one of the UK’s top 10 fastest-growing accountancy firms, we have been a trusted partner since 1881—helping businesses and individuals meet challenges and seize opportunities across generations.

Built on expertise and driven by ambition, we provide a comprehensive range of services, including tax and accountancy, advisory and assurance, corporate finance, and restructuring. We are defined by our purpose—to help navigate challenges, unlock potential, and achieve the extraordinary.

What will you be doing ?

We are seeking a talented Associate to join our Business Outsourcing Services team in Beaconsfield. In your role, you will be working with clients and their finance teams or bookkeepers, helping them with their year-end accounts, management accounts, bookkeeping, VAT returns and cloud accounting software support. This means providing services, advice and solutions that really make a difference.You will also have exposure to working with partners gaining invaluable experience with senior members of staff.

Progression within this team is fast, with responsibility from an early stage. Once studying for your chartered qualifications, you will be taking on a more senior role and helping to supervise the new intake of trainees. As your experience grows, you may have opportunities to experience other ad hoc assignments that our clients request our help with such as: one-off software implementation projects, cloud accounting software 'health-checks' or client secondments to assist their finance function. You will also receive internal training from the professional services learning and development team.

As an Associate - Business Outsourcing Services, you responsibilities will include among others

Working as part of a team to provide clients with a range of services including statutory accounts, bookkeeping, management accounts, VAT returns, software implementation and 'health-checks' of their systems

Developing an understanding of our clients and their businesses

Keeping your manager fully informed of any issues and problems, ensuring the work is completed to a level agreed with the manager and recording clearly and concisely the work carried out

Becoming familiar with our internal accounting software as well as other cloud accounting technologies

Providing advice and solutions to clients in response to their accounting queries

Using automation to improve efficiencies for our clients' finance function

Prioritising tasks for your own portfolio of clients, whilst monitoring time against budget

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should:

Have demonstrable experience working in professional practice

Experience working on statutory accounts preparation, VAT returns, management accounts

Be committed to completing the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) qualification (or ACA where study has already commenced)

Experience of the following software is desired:

Xero

Sage

Quickbooks

Excel

As a colleague here at S&W you will have access to benefits that include

Competitive salary

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension contribution

Generous holiday package

Option to purchase additional holiday

Shared parental leave

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Eye care support

We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At S&W we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we’re delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workplace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.