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. 

Job Vacancies

Trust & Estate Assistant (within the Trust & Estate Support Services team)

Role

Reporting to the partner and client manager assisting with all aspects of trust and estate administration and tax compliance to include:

  • Drafting trust and estate accounts to include cash analysis and investment schedules
  • Assisting the client manager with everyday trust and estate administration including responsibility for maintaining trust and estate clients’ reporting via the Trust Registration Service
  • Drafting trust and estate tax returns
  • Preparing inheritance tax computations for trust 10 year and exit charges
  • Drafting personal tax returns
  • Liaising with clients and HM Revenue & Customs

Skills required

  • Previous experience of working within trusts and estates and dealing with self-assessment tax returns
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Professional qualification, such as STEP Diploma or Certificate, AAT or ATT
  • Experience of accounts preparation in an accountancy practice would be beneficial
  • Able to work using own initiative and keep to deadlines
  • Current working knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel
  • Willingness to develop technical knowledge by way of in-house training, external courses and STEP Diploma

Hours: Full time (38.75 hours per week)

Based: Eastbourne office

Salary: dependent on experience and qualification

Closing date: TBC

Please send you CV and covering letter to info@humph.co.uk

Accounting Technician

Description

As an Accounting Technician, you will work as part of the Accounts team assisting on client accounting and tax compliance tasks.

About Us

Humphrey & Co work with all types of businesses from sole traders to large corporations. The firm currently has 12 partners and 80 staff all of whom have a variety of accounting qualifications.

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

• 2-3 years post AAT 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: Two positions available one at the Eastbourne office and one at the Hove office

Salary: Dependent on experience and qualification

Closing date: TBC

Please send you CV and covering letter to info@humph.co.uk

Client Manager

Description

As a Client Manager at our Hove office, you will work as part of the Accounts team on client accounting and tax compliance tasks. The candidate must be ACA or ACCA qualified or at minimum be within 12 months of being ACA or ACCA qualified.  Tax qualifications (ATT or CTA) are not essential but advantageous. The candidate must have a minimum of 4 years practice experience.

About Us

Humphrey & Co work with all types of businesses from sole traders to large corporations. The firm currently has 12 partners and 80 staff all of whom have a variety of accounting qualifications.

Responsibilities

  • Reporting to associate/partner
  • Supervising work for junior staff members (AATs/AAT trainees)
  • Reviewing work carried out by junior staff/outsourcers
  • Finalising accounts, tax returns, letters and fees for final review by associate/partner
  • Reviewing client and HMRC correspondence and drafting responses or communicating directly with the client
  • Dealing with ad hoc client queries/advice (tax, Xero, etc.)
  • Liaising with outsourcers
  • Assisting with training
  • Assisting with ad hoc advisory matters, such as, business purchases and sales, financial forecasts, incorporation, financial due diligence, etc.
  • Competent use of accountancy and taxation software – Xero, CCH, Excel, Word
  • Networking and promoting the firm (discretionary)
  • Maintain a professional working relationship with both clients and colleagues

Skills required

  • Qualified ACA or ACCA
  • Confidentiality
  • 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 professional qualifications, in-house training and self-development.

Hours: Full time (38.75 hours per week)

Based: Hove office

Salary: Dependent on experience and qualification

Closing date: 30 April 2021

Please send you CV and covering letter to info@humph.co.uk

Client Manager/Senior Manager

Description

As a Client/Senior Manager at our Eastbourne office, you will work as part of the Accounts team on client accounting and tax compliance tasks. The candidate must be ACA or ACCA qualified or at minimum be within 12 months of being ACA or ACCA qualified.  Tax qualifications (ATT or CTA) are not essential but advantageous. The candidate must have a minimum of 4 years practice experience.

About Us

Humphrey & Co work with all types of businesses from sole traders to large corporations. The firm currently has 12 partners and 80 staff all of whom have a variety of accounting qualifications.

Responsibilities

  • Reporting to associate/partner
  • Supervising work for junior staff members (AATs/AAT trainees)
  • Reviewing work carried out by junior staff/outsourcers
  • Finalising accounts, tax returns, letters and fees for final review by associate/partner
  • Reviewing client and HMRC correspondence and drafting responses or communicating directly with the client
  • Dealing with ad hoc client queries/advice (tax, Xero, etc.)
  • Liaising with outsourcers
  • Assisting with training
  • Assisting with ad hoc advisory matters, such as, business purchases and sales, financial forecasts, incorporation, financial due diligence, etc.
  • Competent use of accountancy and taxation software – Xero, CCH, Excel, Word
  • Networking and promoting the firm (discretionary)
  • Maintain a professional working relationship with both clients and colleagues

Skills required

  • Qualified ACA or ACCA
  • Confidentiality
  • 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 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: 30 April 2021

Please send you CV and covering letter to info@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

The firm is pleased to announce that for 2020 & 2021 we will be supporting not one but two charities.

The Eastbourne Foodbank and Hangleton and West Blatchington Foodbank are local to our offices in Eastbourne and Hove.

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.

We will be supporting both charities by collecting supplies to donate throughout the year and also donating the money raised through various fundraising activities.

For more information visit: www.eastbourne.foodbank.org.uk and www.hangletonfoodbank.org

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. 

Past Charities

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

RISE (Refuge, Information, Support and Education) - freedom from domestic abuse. A National Award winning charity providing sanctuary and support in Sussex since 1994.
This is a Brighton-based charity offering practical solutions, shelter and support to those in Sussex affected by domestic abuse. They work alongside survivors giving practical support to help them rebuild their lives.

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.

We also attend numerous networking events in East Sussex including, but not limited to, breakfast and lunch clubs, the local Curry Clubs and networking on the golf course.

Ladies Lunch Club Eastbourne

We currently host and sponsor the Ladies Lunch Club held at The Grand Hotel in Eastbourne. These events provide the ideal platform for members to share their knowledge and experience with other like-minded businesswomen from the local area.

 

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