Accounts Assistant, DTRB, Tax & Legal
- Recruiter
- Deloitte (UK)
- Location
- Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted
- 09 Mar 2023
- Closes
- 07 Apr 2023
- Ref
- 12130
- Job role
- Accounts assistant, Tax
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice, Legal
Job description
Connect to your Industry
Organisations today are faced with an increasingly complex global talent landscape. The workforce is more agile, diversified and 'on demand', leading organisations to re-evaluate their talent models and how they deploy teams globally.
We are offering a unique opportunity to join our team and work with Deloitte leaders to develop insights, build experience and truly add value to our client base. This successful team provides ample room for career development and progression.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte?It'show we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, whereverwe arein the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,fosterinclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision wemake and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it mattersmost .
Connect to your opportunity
The Pensions Practice, Deloitte Total Rewards and Benefits (DTRB), within the Tax & Legal Service Line is a multi-disciplinary group comprising over 200 professionals - actuaries, employee benefits specialists, investment professionals and administrators, led by five partners.
DTRB is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") and provides investment advice, actuarial services and outsourced pension administration services to trustees and corporate sponsors of pension schemes. We are a national practice with a large team in London, together with teams in Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast.
Deloitte has a clear commercial focus. The Deloitte Pensions team is well established and has ambitious targets for further growth. In light of this we are currently seeking new members of staff to work within our pensions department. The team provide a full range of pension services to a portfolio of defined benefit and defined contribution occupational pension schemes. This is on both the Trustee and Corporate side.
From the outset, you'll enjoy exposure to a broad and varied client base, enabling you to increase your market knowledge across a wide range of industries.
We take your development very seriously. Our appraisal process is structured, transparent and interactive - you'll receive continuous training and on-going supportive feedback to achieve the goals that you set yourself. And with no glass ceilings, you will be able to make a difference here by really influencing and shaping the strategic direction of our practice.
We are currently seeking a Accounts Assistant to join a growing team in the preparation of accounts for pension schemes. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with strong financial skills.
An Accounts Assistant will have responsibility for:
To qualify you will have:
Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that's exactly what you'll find at Deloitte. We're constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what's possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
"Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that's exactly what you'll find at Deloitte. We're constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what's possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own."
"You never have to do it all on your own here. It's great to know that we're all in it together; we're much stronger that way and it's healthier for everyone too."
-Anita, Tax Consulting
Connect to your agile working options
Location: Belfast
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You'll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
You'll be joining oneofour innovative virtual communities.Which means you'll be part of the Belfast team.You'llhave the flexibility to work from home or a client site as required. You'll also haveaccesstoa number oflocal collaboration spaces where you can meet with colleagues when needed to support your role. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.
You'll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spacesand all sorts of social activities for you to join. We're continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and excitingtechnologydevelopments coming soon.
The future of work is evolving fast and we'realreadyleading the way,by enabling flexibilityfor our people,andmaking it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.
Discover more about our locations .
Connect to your return to work opportunity
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level .
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
Deloitte Total Reward and Benefits Limited ("DTRB"), the UK pensions advisory business of Deloitte LLP, is in the process of being acquired by Isio and, subject to FCA approval, is expected to join the Isio group at the end of May. Employees of DTRB, including the incumbent of this role, will remain employed by DTRB following the acquisition, but will be part of the Isio group rather than Deloitte LLP.
Isio launched in March 2020, backed by Exponent, and the business has shown strong organic growth through new client wins and the development of additional services. The acquisition of Premier Pensions Management in January 2022 strengthened Isio's core pensions business while enabling it to launch new propositions including employee benefits advice and wealth management. In joining DTRB, you will be part of one of the largest pension advisory businesses in the UK.
Connect to your Industry
Organisations today are faced with an increasingly complex global talent landscape. The workforce is more agile, diversified and 'on demand', leading organisations to re-evaluate their talent models and how they deploy teams globally.
We are offering a unique opportunity to join our team and work with Deloitte leaders to develop insights, build experience and truly add value to our client base. This successful team provides ample room for career development and progression.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte?It'show we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, whereverwe arein the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,fosterinclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision wemake and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it mattersmost .
Connect to your opportunity
The Pensions Practice, Deloitte Total Rewards and Benefits (DTRB), within the Tax & Legal Service Line is a multi-disciplinary group comprising over 200 professionals - actuaries, employee benefits specialists, investment professionals and administrators, led by five partners.
DTRB is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") and provides investment advice, actuarial services and outsourced pension administration services to trustees and corporate sponsors of pension schemes. We are a national practice with a large team in London, together with teams in Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast.
Deloitte has a clear commercial focus. The Deloitte Pensions team is well established and has ambitious targets for further growth. In light of this we are currently seeking new members of staff to work within our pensions department. The team provide a full range of pension services to a portfolio of defined benefit and defined contribution occupational pension schemes. This is on both the Trustee and Corporate side.
From the outset, you'll enjoy exposure to a broad and varied client base, enabling you to increase your market knowledge across a wide range of industries.
We take your development very seriously. Our appraisal process is structured, transparent and interactive - you'll receive continuous training and on-going supportive feedback to achieve the goals that you set yourself. And with no glass ceilings, you will be able to make a difference here by really influencing and shaping the strategic direction of our practice.
We are currently seeking a Accounts Assistant to join a growing team in the preparation of accounts for pension schemes. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with strong financial skills.
An Accounts Assistant will have responsibility for:
- Record keeping on Sage for multiple bank accounts
- Downloading statements from several banking platforms on a regular basis
- Maintaining lists of unreconciled transactions
- Carrying out monthly bank reconciliation
- Producing regular cash flows and other cash management reporting
- Recording of investment and AVC information
- Assisting with pension payroll process
- Carrying out administrative tasks within the team
- Working to agreed deadlines to deliver a high quality and efficient service to clients
- Support the team in the basic preparation of accounts for a pension scheme
- Preparing working papers and reconciliations to support the financial statements
- Posting journals
- Assisting with planning of annual audits and liaise with the team to establish timetables
- Assisting with audit requests and queries
To qualify you will have:
- A minimum of 5 GCSE's including English and Maths at Grade A* - C, or equivalent
- 3 A levels or equivalent to include maths or maths related subject
- Strong numeracy and analytical skills
- Excellent knowledge of computerised systems e.g. Microsoft Office/Windows applications, especially in Excel
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
- Good attention to detail and accuracy
- Good interpersonal skills to ensure collaboration with administration, actuarial and consultancy team
Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that's exactly what you'll find at Deloitte. We're constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what's possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
"Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that's exactly what you'll find at Deloitte. We're constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what's possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own."
"You never have to do it all on your own here. It's great to know that we're all in it together; we're much stronger that way and it's healthier for everyone too."
-Anita, Tax Consulting
Connect to your agile working options
Location: Belfast
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You'll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
You'll be joining oneofour innovative virtual communities.Which means you'll be part of the Belfast team.You'llhave the flexibility to work from home or a client site as required. You'll also haveaccesstoa number oflocal collaboration spaces where you can meet with colleagues when needed to support your role. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.
You'll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spacesand all sorts of social activities for you to join. We're continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and excitingtechnologydevelopments coming soon.
The future of work is evolving fast and we'realreadyleading the way,by enabling flexibilityfor our people,andmaking it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.
Discover more about our locations .
Connect to your return to work opportunity
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level .
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
Deloitte Total Reward and Benefits Limited ("DTRB"), the UK pensions advisory business of Deloitte LLP, is in the process of being acquired by Isio and, subject to FCA approval, is expected to join the Isio group at the end of May. Employees of DTRB, including the incumbent of this role, will remain employed by DTRB following the acquisition, but will be part of the Isio group rather than Deloitte LLP.
Isio launched in March 2020, backed by Exponent, and the business has shown strong organic growth through new client wins and the development of additional services. The acquisition of Premier Pensions Management in January 2022 strengthened Isio's core pensions business while enabling it to launch new propositions including employee benefits advice and wealth management. In joining DTRB, you will be part of one of the largest pension advisory businesses in the UK.