Careers

We are a young, entrepreneurial, ambitious business, recently recognised as being the fastest growing firm in the Accountancy Age UK Top 100.

We have a strong team ethos and value every individual member of the Magma team. We believe that giving people responsibility and the freedom to express themselves results in progression and enhances skills and experience.

We believe Magma is a great place to work and the environment allows people to enjoy their time and achieve their full potential. We actively encourage every team member to contribute ideas towards the development of the business.

Every team member’s contribution to the business is visible. As a result, real opportunities for personal development and career progression exist.

About Us

We are a multi office leading firm of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Tax Advisers, who provide a wide range of professional advisory services to owner managed businesses and private individuals.

We combine a highly professional yet cost effective compliance and reporting service with a strong value adding advisory capability.  Our focus is on building long term relationships with our clients to help their businesses succeed, reduce taxation and create, enhance and protect wealth.

We have ambitions plans for the future to build upon our success and achievements to date.  As part of our expansion plans we are always looking for ambitious individuals to join our team.

Preparation of Limited company, partnership and sole trader accounts and reporting to Business Services line manager across a wide portfolio of clients.

In addition, the candidate should be able to prepare management accounts from processed data and critically review for completeness and accuracy.

We see the provision of management accounts and analysed data as a key aspect of this role, a proven history of providing such reports would be preferable.

The candidate will also be required to assist in managing in the delivery of bookkeeping services accurately and efficiently to ensure all deadlines and client expectations are met.

We offer a full bookkeeping service on a weekly/monthly/quarterly basis including:

• Taking client source documents and posting to an accounting package
• Posting and balancing banks
• Posting payroll journals
• Posting depreciation journals
• Preparing and filing of VAT returns
• Preparing management accounts

Certain clients do core bookkeeping themselves and we review postings and prepare and file VAT returns and prepare management accounts as required.

We actively encourage the development of professional relationships with our client base in order to add value. The candidate should therefore be confident when dealing with clients over the phone or in face to face contact, and should also be able to work within a team environment.

Candidate requirements

 Reliable and organised

Attention to detail

Competent in word and excel

Knowledge of VAT

Knowledge of SAGE

Knowledge of Xero essential

Knowledge of Receipt Bank or similar software preferable

Good communication skills as there will be ongoing client contact

As a training office we have a number of trainees who are available as a resource to assist the bookkeeping team so the candidate will need to be able to assist manage workflow and liaise with clients and team members to meet deadlines and expectations.