ASIAN LANGUAGES: Tax Accountant

Title: ASIAN LANGUAGES: Tax Accountant

Language: ANY: Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Malay, Japanese

Start date: Flexible

Location: Central London (Onsite)

Salary: up to £100,000 per annum + generous bonus scheme and other benefits

Company Details: Well established firm of Accountants with a huge portfolio of clients across Asia. This firm has retained a “family “feel in spite of its size and expertise and provides outsourced services for international clients with regards VAT, payroll, management accounting etc. It’s a lovely company to work for and has low staff-turnover rates. It is experiencing massive growth in the Asian business and is looking for a talented bilingual Accountant to support the expansion of the business and to also proactively build new client relationships

Duties

Accounting duties

• Draft all management letters, finalising of accounts, letters of engagement
• Giving advice to clients and identify new business development opportunities through networking, marketing and referrals
• Monitor the work flow and allocate staff resources to each project
• Deciding on a project time-frame for each project, informing the Audit staff about the client, their expectation and business model
• Monitoring “chargeable time” and progress on a job
• Prepare fee schedules and bills for review and approval
• Explaining any extra charges, write-offs, extra hours
• Liaise internally with the Partner following a review of the audit

Develop new business

• Attend networking events
• Proactively seek new clients, arrange introductory meetings
• Develop existing contacts lists

Build a team: Staff management

• Build up the Asian client portfolio and take on new staff
• Complete staff review forms after the end of each job identifying any new training needs
• Complete six-monthly appraisals and sign off training records

REQUIREMENTS

• Fluency in an Asian language
• An Accountancy qualification (eg ACA, ACCA, CTA etc)
• Minimum 5 years of solid UK work experience as tax accountant
• Ideally able to leverage existing client contacts and introduce business to the firm