Accounts Senior

Accounts Senior – Exeter – Permanent
💰 Salary: Very Competitive (depending on experience), plus great benefits and development opportunities!
📍 Location: Exeter
🕒 Hours: Hybrid
📅 Start: ASAP

Are you an accounts professional who enjoys producing accurate financial information and supporting a variety of clients? Do you thrive in a role where you can prepare year-end accounts, tax computations, management reports, and deliver bookkeeping services with precision and insight? If so, this opportunity could be an excellent next step.

Carrington Wood is delighted to be supporting a leading professional services firm as they seek to appoint an Accounts Senior. This is a varied and rewarding role, offering exposure to a wide range of clients, with a particular focus on law firm accounting. (There are other roles available working with their clients in other industries too, so do still get in touch even if the legal sector isn't of particular interest)

What You’ll Be Doing:

✔ Preparing year-end statutory accounts and financial information for a diverse client base
✔ Producing management accounts, financial forecasts, and projections
✔ Completing personal, partnership, and company tax computations
✔ Preparing detailed analysis and commentary to accompany law firm accounts, including benchmarking insights
✔ Delivering bookkeeping services, including income/expenditure recording and bank reconciliations
✔ Preparing VAT returns and ensuring compliance across all submissions
✔ Monitoring job progress, staying on top of budgets and deadlines
✔ Identifying technical or client-specific issues and proposing practical solutions
✔ Assisting with audit and compliance-related tasks
✔ Liaising with clients to maintain strong, collaborative relationships
✔ Supporting and supervising junior team members, helping with coaching and workflow management

What We’re Looking For:

💡 AAT / ACCA / ACA qualified, part-qualified, or qualified by experience
💡 Previous accounting experience in a practice environment
💡 Confident using cloud accounting platforms and computer-based accounts/tax software
💡 Strong MS Excel, Word, and Outlook skills
💡 Experience working with law firm accounts and SAR compliance (desirable, but not essential, as training can be provided)
💡 Accurate, organised, and able to manage competing deadlines
💡 Strong communication skills and a proactive approach to client work

Why You’ll Love This Role:

✅ Opportunity to work with a well-established, highly respected professional services firm
✅ Exposure to a specialist area of accounting, with training provided
✅ Supportive, collaborative culture focused on development and wellbeing
✅ Clear progression opportunities within a growing organisation
✅ Hybrid working and excellent flexibility
✅ Very competitive salary and excellent wider benefits package

📅 Apply now for a confidential conversation about this Accounts Senior opportunity in Exeter.

Carrington Wood is a specialist recruitment consultancy supporting organisations across Cornwall, Devon, and the wider South West. We recruit across Finance, Administration, HR, Customer Service, and Business Development on both a temporary and permanent basis.