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Our client is a prestigious and well-established law firm, able to trace its roots back to the 1800s. Over time the firm has grown its clients and won several awards. With a view to building upon previous successes the firm is looking for ambitious and passionate candidates to apply.
They are looking to recruit an Finance Assistant to join their Legal Finance team.
The Finance Assistant is an integral member of the team delivering accurate and high-quality financial analysis, reporting and advice to the wider business. They provide support primarily to the Management Accountant and Senior Finance Manager but also to the wider Finance team including the CFO.
Responsibilities
- Maintain financial records to assist the Management Accountant in the preparation of the monthly management accounts.
- Help to manage the firm’s monthly balance sheet position through the Practice Management System (Aderant) including maintenance of appropriate controls and undertaking reconciliations to supporting ledgers.
- Assist Business Services Directors and other Managers on various accounting queries including Client/Sector billing analysis for Business Development and analysis of other expenditure and budget activity.
- Assist fee earners with various queries in relation to obtaining and understanding relevant personal statistics from the firm’s financial information systems, including conducting inductions for new joiners.
- Maintain and update accurate fee earner records in the financial systems (Aderant), including rates and personal targets, liaising with HR to verify relevant data and explaining adjustments to fee earners where necessary.
- Responsible for completing monthly, quarterly and annual legal industry benchmark surveys and Office for National Statistics submissions.
- Support the Management Accountant and Senior Finance Manager with ad-hoc requests for financial analysis including quarterly finance presentation slides, client performance and profitability, pricing for pitches and appraisal and promotion assessment data.
- Contribute to the smooth running of the overall Finance department which includes providing cover for colleagues as necessary, looking for opportunities to improve processes and proactively engage with change projects to deliver improvements to the wider business
Candidate Profile
- Part - qualified accountant (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) preferred or looking to study towards CIMA or ACCA
- Experience of working in professional services, particularly legal industry preferred but not essential.
- Excellent organisational skills and able to effectively manage workloads particularly in times of conflicting deadlines and busy periods.
- Ability to work without supervision, proactive and prepared to use initiative.
- Confident, with excellent communication skills and a sensitive approach to confidential information where necessary.
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 permanent vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.
