Senior Global Partnership Accountant

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

The ideal candidate will bring extensive partnership accounting experience, robust reconciliation skills, and the ability to collaborate with Partners and Finance teams across the UK and US. This is a hybrid role requiring three days per week in the London office.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years' accounting experience within a professional services organisation, partnership structure, or accountancy practice.
• Significant partnership accounting experience gained within a law firm or similar partnership-based environment.
• Part-qualified or fully qualified accountant desirable, but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Calculating and processing partner payments.
• Preparation of partner accounting journals.
• Preparing individual partner statements, leaver calculations, and cashflow illustrations for both US and EMEA partners.
• Monthly reconciliation of individual partner accounts, benefits and insurances to Elite 3E.
• Assisting with global partner budgets and supporting budget to actual analysis.
• Monthly review of the global partner capital reconciliations and interest calculations.
• Maintaining the global partner listing and profit allocation schedules, ensuring partner remuneration changes are updated daily.
• Conducting partner induction and departure meetings to explain financial arrangements and obligations.

Skills

Partnership accounting

Advanced Excel

Financial analysis

Reconciliations

Communication

Education

Part-qualified or fully qualified accountant

Tools

Elite 3E

Job description

The ideal candidate will bring extensive partnership accounting experience, robust reconciliation skills, and the ability to collaborate with Partners and Finance teams across the UK and US. This is a hybrid role requiring three days per week in the London office.