Senior Management Accountant

This client is an international law firm with offices across three continents and they are growing. They operate in a few practice areas including Finance, Shipping, Real Estate and Energy.

They have offices close to Liverpool Street, therefore convenient for commuters. The firm offers and extensive benefits package that includes 25 days holiday entitlement, staff restaurant, subsidised gym membership and good pension.

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Management Accountant to join the Financial Control team. The role will lead the production of the Management accounts and annual budget whilst bringing a change mindset to develop the current processes. The role will require good analytical skills, attention to detail and good communication skills and will mix process with projects and business partnering.

Responsibilities

• Production of the consolidated Management accounts including income statements and KPI data.
• Maintaining, updating and recommending changes to the general ledger.
• Being responsible for key account reconciliations including accruals, prepayments, and fixed assets for a range of offices.
• Being a key contact to Business Functions Directors and Office Managers for costs and Practice Group Leaders and Office Heads for revenue.
• Produce a continually updated profit forecast.
• Produce monthly and ad hoc variance analysis and commentary.
• Challenge movements from budget.
• Understand any projects and future including both cost and cash flow impacts.
• Development of monthly departmental packs including both cost and headcount reports for Business Functions Directors and performance reports for Department Heads.
• Assisting in the development of a range of cost allocations including global, regional and local office recharges.
• Assisting with the annual budgeting process including meeting with Business Functions Directors, Practice Group Leaders, Office Managers and Office Heads.
• Agreeing salary costs and headcount with HR departments continually reconciling salary headcounts against revenue headcounts.
• Developing the budgeting process, recommending, and implementing changes to timelines, processes, templates, and systems.
• Production of the annual cost rates.
• Production of the budget phasing and system loads.
• Assisting with the production of the presentation slides to be presented to the Managing Partner.
• Assisting with the annual PWC and quarterly Deloitte benchmarking survey submissions.
• Assisting with queries resulting from the annual statutory auditors particularly relating to accruals, prepayments and fixed assets.
• Being a key contact to the International Finance teams.
• Assisting with the training, development, and delegation of work to the junior members of the team.
• Dealing with ad hoc queries.
• Reviewing and approving client and office payments in partnership with cashier colleagues.

Candidate Profile

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA.
• Excellent Excel skills.
• Experience of dealing with partners and senior management.
• Experience of working through change.
• Experience in a law firm or professional services environment.
• Knowledge of Power BI and Aderant Expert would be preferable.

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