Chartered Accountants & Business Tax Advisors
Humphrey & Co
The firm has built a strong reputation for successfully advising and supporting individuals and businesses with their financial affairs for almost a century.
Our clients benefit from our depth of experience and expertise with an established reputation in many fields.
We are based in Eastbourne and in Brighton & Hove. However, a client’s location is never a problem as we travel to meet clients at their homes or businesses.
Career Opportunities
Be More Than Just An Accountant with Humphrey & Co!
Our firm is growing. We are always on the lookout for talented people for both our Eastbourne and Brighton & Hove offices.
If you can offer a great skill set, are motivated to continuously improve and have a personable style for building client relations, we would like to hear from you.
For the right candidates we offer excellent training and exciting career opportunities. We aim to reward our team well with competitive pay and benefit packages.
Accounting Technician - Eastbourne
Description
As an Accounting Technician, you will work as part of the Accounts team assisting on client accounting and tax compliance tasks. We are looking for a candidate that is AAT qualified (or equivalent).
Responsibilities
- The role will involve all areas of practice work for a range of personal tax and business clients
- Preparing sole trader accounts, personal tax returns, company accounts and corporation tax returns
- VAT advice and compliance services
- Assisting clients with Xero bookkeeping queries
- Reviewing client and HMRC correspondence and drafting responses or communicating directly with the client
- Maintaining a high technical and professional standard. This would be facilitated through ongoing training and access to CPD programmes within the firm
- Communicate with the team on any issues or findings
- Maintain a professional working relationship with both clients and colleagues
- Undertake wider practice activities, as required
Skills required
- AAT qualified or equivalent
- Experience of accounts preparation in an accountancy practice
- Experience with Xero and other bookkeeping software
- Excellent attention to detail
- The ability to manage own workload and prioritise to meet deadlines
- Problem solver with investigative nature
- IT Literate able to use MS Excel and Word
Learning and development is an integral part of Humphrey & Co. We aim to provide the best support to our people to ensure that their development and knowledge is at the best level possible through professional qualifications, in-house training and self-development.
Hours: Part time or full time
Based: Eastbourne office
Salary: Dependent on experience and qualification
Closing date: TBC
Please send your CV and covering letter to jobs@humph.co.uk
Accounts and Audit Senior
Description
As an Accounts and Audit Senior at our Eastbourne office, you will work as part of the Accounts and Audit team assisting on client accounting, tax compliance tasks and auditing tasks. The job role is likely to be 75% audit and 25% accounts work. The candidate must be ACA or ACCA qualified or AAT qualified with appropriate experience The candidate must have a minimum of 3 years practice experience.
Responsibilities
As an Accounts and Audit Senior your main responsibilities will include:
- Assist managers on accounts preparation, tax and auditing
- You will attend in-house technical training as required to assist in your role
- Maintain a professional working relationship with both clients and colleagues
Skills required
As an Accounts and Audit Senior your skills, qualifications and knowledge will include:
- ACA qualified or AAT qualified with appropriate experience
- The ability to manage own workload and prioritise to meet deadlines
- Experience in preparing FRS 105, FRS 102 1a and FRS 102 accounts
- Experience in assisting with the planning of audits if not a whole audit file
- Specialisms in Charity audits and/or Solicitor Accounts Rules would be a bonus
- Awareness of changes in current accounts and audit legislation
- Problem solver with investigative nature
- A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Ability to work independently and with others
- Good IT skills (although training provided)
Learning and Development is an integral part of Humphrey & Co. We aim to provide the best support to our people to ensure that their development and knowledge is at the best level possible through in-house training and self-development.
Hours: Full time (38.75 hours per week)
Based: Eastbourne
Salary: Dependent on experience and qualification
Closing date: TBC
Please send your CV and covering letter to jobs@humph.co.uk
Accounts and Audit Manager
Description
As an Accounts and Audit Manager at our Eastbourne office, you will work as part of the Accounts and Audit team assisting on client accounting, tax compliance tasks and auditing tasks. The job role is likely to be 70% audit and 30% accounts work. The candidate must be ACA or ACCA qualified or AAT qualified with appropriate experience. The candidate must have a minimum of 3 years practice experience, including 2 in an audit role.
Responsibilities
As an Accounts and Audit Manager your main responsibilities will include:
- Liaising with partners on client management, practice development, and business strategy
- Leading and managing engagements ensuring timely and efficient completion
- Completing file reviews on a range of audit clients, utilising your existing technical knowledge and experience whilst developing your skills still further and ensuring quality standards are met
- Being instrumental in implementing compliance with regulatory standards and internal firm quality policies
- Developing the team and be a role model
- Supervising and mentoring junior staff, assisting with the structuring of their training
Skills required
- ACA/ACCA qualified or AAT qualified with appropriate experience
- A minimum of two years recent practical audit experience
- Strong technical knowledge in UK GAAP, FRS 102, LLP SORP and ISAs
- Good IT skills, knowledge of CCH would be great, but not essential
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Experience at managing teams including setting workflow and reviewing work of others
- Specialisms in Charity audits and/or Solicitor Accounts Rules would be a bonus
- Awareness of changes in current accounts and audit legislation
- Problem solver with an investigative nature, including an acute attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and with others
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills
Learning and Development is an integral part of Humphrey & Co. We aim to provide the best support to our people to ensure that their development and knowledge is at the best level possible through professional qualifications, in-house training and self-development.
Hours: Full time (38.75 hours per week)
Based: Eastbourne
Salary: Dependent on experience and qualification
Closing date: TBC
Please send your CV and covering letter to jobs@humph.co.uk
Tax Assistant / Manager
We are looking to fulfil a new role within our growing tax department. Ideally we would be looking for a candidate with tax experience that is ATT or CTA qualified, but for the right person we would consider someone with accounting experience and a keen interest in specialising in tax work.
Responsibilities / duties
- Supporting the Tax Partner with technical research and preparing tax advice direct to clients in all areas of taxation
- Supporting the Tax Partner in dealing with internal technical tax queries for Partners and Managers, encompassing all areas of taxation
- Working with the Tax Partner to develop tax planning ideas and provide proactive advice, including technical updates to both partners/staff and clients
- Assisting with the preparation of Self Assessment Tax Returns for a portfolio of clients
- Assisting the Tax Partner with the preparation of US Federal Tax Returns
Requirements
- Experience in working in mixed UK taxation (private client and corporate clients) is preferred, but candidates with a private client bias who are willing to develop corporate tax experience will be considered
- Tax advisory experience is desirable but not essential as training can be provided in this area
- It is experience that is important, so although CTA qualified candidates will be preferred, candidates with other tax or accounting qualification as well as those qualified by experience will be considered
- Must be willing (and able) to undertake detailed technical research, work to deadlines and get involved in wide ranging issues
- Experience in US tax is desirable but not essential
What’s on offer?
- The opportunity to progress your career in taxation at this supportive and friendly firm
- The opportunity to get involved with varied and interesting tax advisory work
- The rare opportunity to develop broad UK tax expertise and gain US tax experience (full training and support will be provided for the latter)
Learning and Development is an integral part of Humphrey & Co. We aim to provide the best support to our people to ensure that their development and knowledge is at the best level possible through professional qualifications, in-house training and self-development.
Hours: Full time (38.75 hours per week)
Based: Eastbourne office
Salary: Dependent on experience and qualification
Closing date: TBC
Please send your CV and covering letter to jobs@humph.co.uk
Accounting Technician/Chartered Accountant
Description
As an Accounting Technician, you will work as part of the Accounts team assisting on client accounting and tax compliance tasks. We are looking for a candidate that is AAT or ACA/ACCA qualified.
Responsibilities
- The role will involve all areas of practice work for a range of personal tax and business clients
- Assisting in the management of a portfolio of clients to deliver a high quality service
- Preparing and reviewing sole trader accounts, personal tax returns, company accounts and corporation tax returns
- VAT advice and compliance services
- Maintaining a high technical and professional standard. This would be facilitated through ongoing training and access to CPD programmes within the firm
- Coach, train and develop junior staff to improve and further their knowledge
- Opportunity to develop skills in key areas such as Xero and other Cloud based systems
- Undertake wider practice activities, as required
- Communicate with the team on any issues or findings
- Maintain a professional working relationship with both clients and colleagues
Skills required
- AAT qualified or ACA/ACCA qualified
- Experience of accounts preparation in an accountancy practice
- Excellent attention to detail
- The ability to manage own workload and prioritise to meet deadlines
- Problem solver with investigative nature
- IT Literate able to use MS Excel and Word
Learning and Development is an integral part of Humphrey & Co. We aim to provide the best support to our people to ensure that their development and knowledge is at the best level possible through professional qualifications, in-house training and self-development.
Hours: Full time (38.75 hours per week)
Based: Eastbourne & Hove positions available
Salary: Dependent on experience and qualification
Closing date: TBC
Please send your CV and covering letter to jobs@humph.co.uk
Our Charity Partnership
After many years of supporting and sponsoring various local organisations, we decided in 2014 that we would prefer to concentrate our efforts by predominantly supporting one local charity each year.
In this way, we felt as a firm that we could:
Proudly sponsor a local charity and support the work that they do for our local community
Promote a partnership with the charity, working together to achieve specific aims or goals
Our Charity of the year 2024 is St Wilfrid's Hospice
St Wilfrid’s Hospice provides high-quality care and support for people across Eastbourne, Seaford, Hailsham, Uckfield, Heathfield (and all points between) with life-limiting illnesses. Support is offered at the hospice, in patients’ own home and in care homes. Over 70% of the funds to provide these services comes from voluntary donations.
Humphrey & Co also participates in numerous local charity events and fundraisers. We actively encourage members of staff to independently volunteer and be involved in the work of other charities in the local area.
Our nominated charity for 2023 was
The Brain Tumour Charity
The Brain Tumour Charity is the world’s leading brain tumour charity and the largest dedicated funder of research into brain tumours globally. Committed to saving and improving lives, they are moving further, faster to help every single person affected by a brain tumour. They are set on finding new treatments, offering the highest level of support and driving urgent change.
Our nominated charity for 2022 was
The Pedal People
The Pedal People is a small independent Brighton charity running weekly, year-round cycle rides providing uplifting (and often the only) outdoor activity for disabled people, elders and people living with health challenges or special educational needs. The cycle rides enable meaningful community interaction plus wind-in-hair wellbeing benefits. They offer highly adaptable side-by-side tandems, recumbents and Trishaws (riders sit upfront pedalled by cycle pilot) plus guided and co-piloted options, enabling families, carers and friends to cycle together.
Our nominated charities for 2020 & 2021 were
The Eastbourne Foodbank & Hangleton and West Blatchington Foodbank
Foodbanks are here to support those in the local community who do not have sufficient funds to buy their own food and essential toiletries, whilst also offering advice and support groups to those in need.
Our nominated charity for 2019 was
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)
JDRF funds research into the cure, treatment and prevention of type 1 diabetes. It is their aim to help develop new treatments to keep people with type 1 as healthy as possible until they find the cure. Ultimately, they want to prevent people from getting the condition at all.
Our nominated charity for 2018 was
Embrace East Sussex
Embrace was formed in 2014 to support special needs and disabled children and their families with their ethos being 'Because no child should feel alone'. Embrace run a number of services and projects, providing vital social and respite support as well as advocacy support for its beneficiaries.
Our nominated charity for 2017 was
You Raise Me Up
A local charity based in Eastbourne founded by Fraser and Jane Brooks in June 2011 following the sudden loss of their daughter Megan. The charity’s sole purpose is to raise funds to support families that have suffered the loss of an adult child between the age of 16 and 25 and to be able to provide compassion, support and to simply be able to say “we totally understand” rather than “we cannot imagine what you are going through”.
Our nominated charity for 2016 was
RISE
Our nominated charity for 2015 was
Sussex Cancer Fund
Since 1981 The Sussex Cancer Fund has been giving invaluable assistance to The Sussex Cancer Centre at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. This is in the form of additional equipment and building improvements for the treatment and comfort of cancer patients attending the department. The Centre treats thousands of Sussex people each year.
Our nominated charity for 2014 was
Children’s Respite Trust in East Hoathly
This charity is largely run by volunteers and supports children with disabilities and their families by helping them get a break throughout Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Vital to all of their work is fundraising to help the limited number of families they can reach with the money they raise.
Networking
As a firm we feel it’s important to engage in business networking to develop new relationships with local contacts, sharing ideas and discussing topical issues.
We also realise how invaluable networking is for our staff for building their confidence and expanding their portfolio of contacts.
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