Bookkeeper

Senior Bookkeeper | Aylesbury | £28,000 – £35,000 DOE | Full Time | Permanent 

The opportunity This is a Senior Bookkeeper position for someone who wants more than routine processing. You’ll be the person who keeps standards high across a portfolio, ensures files are genuinely accounts-ready, and supports the wider team with quality control and structure.

You’ll join a well-established, cloud-led accountancy practice with a professional, collaborative culture. The expectation is simple: accurate double entry, strong balance sheet control, confident VAT delivery, and clear client communication. In return, you’ll get real ownership, variety across clients, and a role that can grow into a bookkeeping lead position over time.

You’ll take responsibility for a portfolio of clients and act as the go-to for bookkeeping quality and delivery. You’ll also review work completed by juniors and support their development, ensuring consistency across files and deadlines.

Key responsibilities
Owning bookkeeping for a portfolio of clients using cloud accounting software
Ensuring accurate double entry, reconciliations, and clean ledgers to trial balance
Preparing and reviewing VAT returns, including checks, corrections, and query resolution
Maintaining strong balance sheet reconciliations and control accounts (VAT, debtors, creditors, payroll where applicable)
Reviewing junior bookkeeping work, providing feedback, and ensuring files are accounts-ready
Being a key point of contact for clients: records, queries, deadlines, and process improvements
Liaising with HMRC where required and supporting registrations/compliance administration
Identifying recurring issues and improving client bookkeeping processes to reduce errors and rework
Supporting the accounts team with clean handovers and supporting schedulesWhat we’re looking for
Strong practice-based or multi-client bookkeeping experience
Confident producing accurate records through to trial balance and maintaining balance sheet integrity
Solid VAT knowledge and the confidence to sense-check and correct
Strong understanding of double entry and reconciliations
Comfortable reviewing others’ work and raising standards
Professional client communication skills and a calm, organised approach to deadlinesDesirable:

Management accounts exposure
Payroll journals/pensions experience
Experience across multiple cloud platforms and process improvement