Reporting Accountant
- Recruiter
- Michael Page
- Location
- London, South West London
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Posted
- 18 Apr 2017
- Closes
- 18 May 2017
- Ref
- 13811870/001
- Contact
- Tom Orchard
- Job role
- Financial accountant
- Sector
- Legal
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
This is a critical role that will have a lot of responsibility in the function. The role offers great potential to a candidate wishing to have wider exposure to the broad range of areas in a finance function and to have experience in providing all aspects of financial support in a leading Law Firm. Previous Law Firm experience in necessary
Client Details
Our client is a leading Law Firm located in South West London, they have offices nation wide and have an impressive portfolio of clients.
Description
The successful candidate will work closely with the Financial Controller to ensure the accuracy of our financial records and that reporting is timely, accurate and best suited to meet the needs of the business. The successful candidate will be encouraged and expected to deliver continuous improvement and to support other team members and the wider firm with their technical accounting and systems knowledge.
The main responsibilities of the role will be:
- Maintenance of the financial records of the firm (the role will have responsibility for the trial balance) and the production of management reports
- Management of month end and year end processes
- Lead the annual budgeting process, using Excel to model time, revenue and cost in each business unit
- Calculate and enter all accruals, prepayments, provisions, rent, depreciation, amortisation and other, similar journals.
- Calculate and invoice rent to sub-tenants
- Check payroll and make journal entry
- Liaise regularly with the budget holders to support their understanding of their budgets and track progress
- Preparation of trial balance for audit purposes and day to day liaison with the external auditors
- Maintenance and preparation of regulatory returns including VAT, data for submission to industry surveys and National Statistics
- Management of financial controls within the department, including reviewing and testing of regular housekeeping activities, checks to ensure system balancing and reconciling key balances
- Providing and explaining regular and ad hoc information across the firm for internal and external use
- Support key business activities such as forecasting and the production of key performance statistics as well as supporting ad hoc projects and initiatives
- Being alert to opportunities for improving financial controls and efficiency in processes
- Ensuring our key processes and policies are documented in our Finance Manual
Profile
The ideal candidate will ideally have the following -
- Strong technical accounting skills
- Advanced Excel skills
- Will have experience of working within a legal firm in a finance function
- Experience of management reporting and an interest in understanding business needs with a view to maximising effectiveness and efficiency in this area
- Experience of Elite Enterprise (or a similar financial system) with demonstrable skills in understanding the system, its structure and capabilities including reporting
- Organised and able to work independently. Able to manage their deliverables to a timetable while keeping others informed of issues and progress. Have an eye for detail and be able to quickly critically assess information
- Good verbal and written skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels
- Experience of working directly with fee earners and the proven ability to build effective relationships with senior stakeholders in a law firm
- Proactive in their approach
- A thorough understanding of the full range of standard accounting practices within a progressive firm in the legal sector, to include knowledge of regulatory requirements in respect of VAT guidelines, Solicitors' Accounts Rules and Money Laundering Regulations
- Professional, personable and approachable but firm
Job Offer
The role of Reporting Accountant comes with a competitive package
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