Assistant Management Accountant

Our client is a leading top-tier European intellectual property firm, dedicated to protecting and enforcing our clients’ IP rights. For over 130 years they have been applying world-class expertise to take ideas, products, and services further. Their team of over 250 people, including over 40 partners, over 75 qualified attorneys and solicitors, is based in London, Munich and Southampton.

They are now looking for Assistant Management Accountant to join their Southampton office.

Responsibilities

• Assisting the Management Accountant with preparation of schedules to form part of the monthly management accounts

• Daily ledger data integrity and control checks

• Accruals for e-billing clients and assistance with other client specific billing tasks and reports (both monthly reports and ad-hoc reports as required)

• Maintaining the fixed asset register

• Preparation and distribution of monthly KPI information for fee earning staff

• Monitoring of Work in Progress (WIP) and reporting to Management Committee

• Monitoring of disbursement write offs and reporting to Finance Partner

• Exporting payments from our ledger and uploading to our on-line banking system

• Sale or purchase of currencies as required using our bank’s treasury system

• Monthly revaluation of currency accounts

• Ad-hoc support to the Management Accountant and Head of Finance as required

Candidate Profile

• Studying towards a accountancy qualification
• Experience of working in a professional services organisation (preferable)
• Experience of working within a Partnership (preferable)
• A good working knowledge of Excel

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted, you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful, and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.