Accounts Manager

Career Legal; Manchester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in the UK is seeking an Accounts Manager for their Manchester office. The role involves overseeing financial transactions, ensuring compliance with legal standards, and managing a cashiering team. Candidates should have relevant accounting qualifications and considerable experience in a similar law firm environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3-5 years in a similar role within a law firm.
• In-depth knowledge of Solicitors Accounts Rules.
• Strong understanding of financial principles.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all transactions and cashiering duties are processed accurately.
• Assist Finance Director with compliance to standards.
• Develop and oversee cashiering team.

Skills

Client account management

Reconciliations

Time management

Communication

Organizational skills

Process improvement

Education

ACCA

CIMA

ILFM

Tools

Elite 3e

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Our client is a specialist law firm headquartered in London with offices across the United Kingdom. They provide a full range of human rights services including personal injury, employment and discrimination and clinical negligence.

They are now looking to hire a Accounts Manager on a permanent basis in their Manchester office.

Responsibilities

• To ensure that all day-to-day transactions and cashiering duties, across all client and office accounts, are processed accurately and within appropriate deadlines.
• To assist the Finance Director in ensuring that the firm's policies and procedures comply with all appropriate standards, including SAR and AML regulations, as set out by the Law Society.
• To ensure that the firm's accounting procedures are adhered to and that fee earners are kept informed of relevant matters and receive information in a timely fashion.
• To ensure that ongoing training and support is provided to all members of the firm on the firm's accounting procedures and Solicitors Accounts Rules (SAR).
• To ensure that contact with clients or other external parties meet the firm's standards of client care.
• The development and oversight of a cashiering team, including staff recruitment, reviewing staff levels, cashier training, development, and appraisal.
• The implementation of existing and development of new processes, focusing on efficiency, identifying and applying process improvements where required.
• Involvement in firmwide projects to review and improve processes which include a Finance function.
• Legal cashiering and compliance to include recording client and office transactions accurately and adherence to the Firms SLA.
• To ensure awareness of the Firm's financial policies, procedures, and controls to all new starters.
• The on-going provision of advice and training to fee earners and teams on procedure and best practice.
• To ensure that a Senior member of accounts is represented at other departmental meetings.
• Oversight of daily bank reconciliations.
• Oversight of month end procedures.
• Assistance with financial management reporting as required.
• Support the preparatory work for the annual audit of accounts.

Candidate Profile

• Relevant accounting or Legal Finance qualifications. ACCA, CIMA or ILFM.
• An in-depth knowledge of the Solicitors Accounts Rules to ensure compliance with the regulations.
• Strong understanding of financial principles.
• Proven experience in client account management, reconciliations and month-end closing.
• Minimum experience of 3-5 years of work in a similar role within a law firm.
• Excellent organisational and time management/efficiency skills.
• Clear and concise written and oral communication.
• Experience of managing a team effectively.
• A track record of identifying, communicating and delivering process improvements.
• Elite 3e experience would be beneficial.
• 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing

• Industries

  Law Practice and Legal Services

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