Position: Account manager for estate management clients
Salary: From £12.80 per hour - £20.00 per hour depending upon experience and qualifications
Pension: Nest workplace pension scheme
Working Hours: 12 hours a week
Holiday: Full time equivalent 20 days + bank holidays
Main place of work: Chelmsford CM6 1QL with scope for remote working
The role will consist of dealing with the accounts for Whirledge & Nott clients. One is a company that owns an Estate and the other is a farming partnership. More specifically:
- Monitoring incoming rents and liaising with the W&N client manager if rents are unpaid
- Receiving, checking, entering and paying purchase invoices
- Invoicing tenants for rent, utilities and services
- Maintaining a crop sale spreadsheet
- Managing pension changes (re-assessment)
- Notifying clients of any tax changes – VAT, employment allowance procedures and pension levels
- Bank reconciliations and all usual accounting procedures
Monthly:
- Usual Sage accounting month end procedures including producing a cash account showing income and expenditure
- Payroll for farm workers. Currently 5 employees, 4 on an ad hoc basis, based upon hours worked including pension provision with NEST
Quarterly:
- Produce reports ahead of quarterly meeting with client identifying the progress of the farms based upon the harvest year
- Attending a quarterly meeting with the W&N client manager to outline the financial position
- A quarterly management fee note
- VAT report for the client to submit to HMRC
Annually:
- Provide figures for the stock taking and liaise with the W&N client manager who prepares the stock take for the client’s accountant
- Completing usual year end procedures and liaising with the client’s accountant.
Ideal candidate:
- Expert user of Excel and Sage 50cloud Accounts and Sage50 Payroll is essential
- Experience in the rural sector
- Confident and experienced their field
- Able to work autonomously, but with input from the clients, the W&N client manager and the clients’ accountants
If you wish to apply, please send your CV together with a formal letter of application by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.