Business Services Accountant

ASHURST BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Health benefits

Gym membership

Discounted health plans

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Ashurst Perkins Coie in Glasgow is seeking a Business Services Accountant to join the Global Financial Management team. This full-time, permanent role focuses on driving financial service delivery, partnering with business services, and delivering accounting outputs in a hybrid Glasgow-based setup.

The successful candidate will have experience in financial and management accounting, a professional accounting qualification, and strong business partnering abilities within a global context.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial and management accounting, including month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Professional accounting qualification (e.g., ICAS, ACCA, ICAEW or equivalent) or part qualified/qualified by experience.

Responsibilities

• Profit and loss review for service groups.
• Provide finance business partnering support and advice to a range of stakeholders across Business Services.
• Assist with month-end close in line with the monthly timetable.
• Maintain the Fixed Asset Register and post additions, disposals, depreciation, etc.
• Review and post accruals and prepayments for service groups

Skills

Financial accounting

Management accounting

Month-end close

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial analysis

Education

Accounting qualification

Job description

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

• Flexible work options
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs

The Opportunity:

The Business Services Accountant is a key role in the global Financial Management team, based in Glasgow. Reporting into the Senior Global Finance Manager, the purpose of the role is driving financial service delivery, partnering with business services, and taking responsibility for a range of financial and management accounting outputs. This is a full time, permanent opportunity, with a flexible hybrid working arrangement.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Profit and loss review for service groups.
• Provide finance business partnering support and advice to a range of stakeholders across Business Services.
• Assist with month-end close in line with the monthly timetable.
• Maintain the Fixed Asset Register and post additions, disposals, depreciation, etc.
• Review and post accruals and prepayments for service groups

This is a full-time role on a Permanent basis, based in our Glasgow office with hybrid working.

More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site Careers | Ashurst Perkins Coie

About you:

The successful candidate will:

• Experience in financial and management accounting, including month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Professional accounting qualification (e.g., ICAS, ACCA, ICAEW or equivalent) or part qualified/qualified by experience.
• Comprehensive understanding of financial service delivery and business partnering within a global context.
• In-depth knowledge of financial and management accounting responsibilities.
• Experience providing technical expertise and advice in financial management.

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