Finance Manager

Career Legal; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Legal is recruiting a Finance Manager to own payroll, indirect taxes, financial reporting and treasury management across multiple offices. The role includes participation in firm-wide projects and ensuring compliance with UK Solicitor's Accounts Rules.

The candidate should bring accounting qualifications, experience in a multi-currency environment, and strong Excel and analytical skills to support decision making for the Management Team.

Qualifications

• Experience working in an international multi-currency environment.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills; able to interpret financial data for leadership.
• Excellent Excel skills and understanding of accounting software principles.
• Experience with law-firm finance processes and UK Solicitor's Accounts Rules.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly payroll for UK and France; liaise with outsourced payroll providers.
• Supervise payroll across offices; post payroll journals and reconcile balances.
• Administer retirement schemes (UK/US) and report payroll data for profitability.
• Prepare indirect tax returns for UK, Spain, Singapore and France.
• Manage treasury and cashflow forecasting; support budgeting and forecasting.

Skills

Analytical skills

Excel proficiency

Communication skills

Multi-currency experience

Education

Accountant qualification (AAT/ACCA/CA)

Tools

Aderant

Job description

Our client is a firm dedicated to international arbitration-commercial, investment-treaty, and inter-State. Their lawyers bring extensive experience in all types and forms of international arbitration, having represented corporate and sovereign clients in many of the most significant arbitral cases of the past decades. This collective expertise will be brought to bear with substantial, direct, and continuous partner involvement in each matter handled by the firm.

They are looking to recruit a Finance Manager. The Finance Manager will prepare and have overall ownership of the firm's payroll, indirect taxes, financial reporting (month end) and treasury management processes. In addition, the Finance Manager may provide ownership and/or support on a variety of projects that are firm-wide in scope.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of monthly payroll for the UK and France including liaising with outsourced payroll providers.
• Supervision of monthly payroll for other offices.
• Prepare all monthly payroll and benefits journals for posting.
• Maintain payroll and benefits balance sheet reconciliations.
• Administration of retirement schemes (US and UK) - monthly UK and US administrative tasks.
• Reporting of payroll data for the firms' profitability tracking.
• Prepare UK, Spanish, Singapore and French indirect tax returns (e.g. GST, VAT)
• Ensure transactions are processed in accordance with UK Solicitor's Accounts Rules.
• Ensure appropriate treasury management across the firm's bank accounts.
• Support the preparation of accounts for UK, US, Spanish, Singapore and French tax purposes.
• Respond to accounting, tax, indirect tax, Solicitor's Accounts Rules and other finance queries.
• Prepare monthly schedules, primarily for accruals, prepayments, fixed assets, payroll & benefits.
• Maintain balance sheet monthly reconciliation processes.
• Treasury management and maintain cashflow forecasts for the firm.
• Support the annual budget and quarterly forecasting processes for the firm.
• Support Business Services heads in analysing budget vs actual performance.
• Support firmwide cost control.
• Prepare ad-hoc analysis to support decision making for the Management Team.

Candidate Profile

• A qualification as an Accountant (full or part).
• Experience of working in an international and multi-currency environment.
• Experience of operating law firm finance processes in accordance with UK Solicitor's Accounts Rules.
• An understanding of LLP accounting and economics.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong understanding and experience of Practice Management Systems (ideally Aderant).
• Reliable, adaptable and flexible attitude, ensuring that deadlines are met.
• High level of attention to detail, sound judgment, and logical decision making with a hands 1 on approach.
• Excellent Excel skills and a good understanding of accounting software principles.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient at analysing financial and operational data and preparing analysis for executive consumption

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. Thank you.