Finance Senior Associate

Career Legal; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Legal seeks an experienced Finance Senior Associate to lead client accounting for multiple international entities. You will act as a mini-FD across several client engagements, preparing monthly management accounts, budgets, and financial analyses.

The role requires a qualified accountant with at least 3 years post-qualification experience and comfort with multi-currency environments. You will collaborate with Partners on billing, controls, and cash movements while helping onboard new

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with at least 3 year’s post qualified experience.
• Experience of working in an international and multi-currency environment preferred.
• Understanding of LLP accounting and a mix of financial control, reporting and operational finance experience.
• Excellent communication skills, gravitas and professionalism.
• Flexible team player, capable of delivering excellent work in a fast-paced, multi-client environment.

Responsibilities

• Building client relationships and trust to operate as mini-FD to several of our clients
• Preparing monthly management accounts and annual budgets
• Preparing reports and ad-hoc analysis to support decision making
• Engaging Partners on billing, credit control and drawings
• Preparation of draft annual financial accounts
• Build and maintain balance sheet monthly reconciliation processes
• Maintaining financial controls for client UK and overseas entities
• Maintaining Partner current accounts and tax reserves
• Helping select and set up new practice management systems and finance processes as new clients on-board
• Approving payments and transfers from bank accounts
• Handling accounting, tax, VAT and other finance queries

Skills

Excellent communication

Gravitas

Professionalism

Team player

Education

Chartered Accountant (CA)

Job description

Our client are multi-disciplinary business consultants to the legal sector. They help law firms and new entrants to the legal market to define and achieve their objectives. Their Partners and Associates cover the full spectrum of business services – including senior management and executive officer roles, Human Resources, IT,

Finance,RiskManagement&Compliance,InformationResources,BusinessDevelopmentandMarketing.Wehavebeenbehindsomeofthemostinnovativeandsuccessfullawfirmlaunchesinrecentyearsandhavebuiltlongtermrelationshipswithanimpressiveanddiverseclientbaseculture.

TheyarenowlookingforanexperiencedFinanceSeniorAssociate.

Responsibilities

• Building client relationships and trust to operate as mini-FD to several of our clients
• Preparing monthly management accounts and annual budgets
• Preparing reports and ad-hoc analysis to support decision making
• Engaging Partners on billing, credit control and drawings
• Preparation of draft annual financial accounts
• Build and maintain balance sheet monthly reconciliation processes
• Maintaining financial controls for client UK and overseas entities
• Maintaining Partner current accounts and tax reserves
• Helping select and set up new practice management systems and finance processes as new clients on-board
• Approving payments and transfers from bank accounts
• Handling accounting, tax, VAT and other finance queries

CandidateProfile

• Qualified Accountant with at least 3 year’s post qualified experience.
• Experience of working in an international and multi-currency environment preferred
• UnderstandingofLLPaccountingandamixoffinancialcontrol,reportingandoperationalfinanceexperience
• Excellent communication skills, gravitas and professionalism
• Flexibleteamplayer,capableofdeliveringexcellentworkinafastpaced,multi-clientenvironment

ImportantNotice

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