Management Accountant

Management Accountant

Job Purpose

To be the principal day to day accountant in a growing legal practice. This will involve developing a weekly/monthly suite of financial reports, implementing new billing systems and processes, and preparing monthly Management Accounts (including budgets and forecasts). The role reports to the Finance Director. To be successful for the role you will need to be fully CIMA or ACCA qualified.

Job Overview

• Work closely with the Associate Director/Principal Lawyer to support the growth of the business by developing a weekly/monthly suite of financial reports that will help the management team to effectively run the business.
• Produce the primary statements and monthly management accounts for review by the Finance Director.
• Support the budgeting and quarterly forecasting process, providing data reflecting business activity, and identify and highlight areas of risk and opportunities.
• Implement robust processes, systems, and routines to enable strong financial control.
• Ownership of P&L and Balance Sheet including calculation and posting of related accruals/prepayments, cost analysis, and understanding of variances vs budget/forecast.
• Ensuring compliance with SRA requirements.
• Produce regulatory returns, including FCA returns, ONS returns, and VAT returns for review by the Finance Director.
• Oversight of the billing and collections process.
• Utilise the new Clio system to develop reporting on billable hours, WIP, orders outstanding and other areas as required.

What you Bring to the Team

• Fully qualified CIMA / ACCA or equivalent.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload to produce high quality work within deadlines.
• Possess strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work on own initiative and deliver high quality analysis and insight.
• A sound knowledge of financial reporting policies and procedures.
• Ability to organise, manipulate and present large volumes of data using Excel spreadsheets.
• Possess strong communication skills and ability to develop strong business partnering relationships with the management team.

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