Job Description

Legal Finance & Accounting REF: LF926442 financial-accountant-965997

City of London * Permanent

• Competitive

Job Details

Career Legal https://www.careerlegal.co.uk

Our client is a London-based Law firm where people are committed to achieving the goals of listed and private companies, institutions, and individuals. Our experience encompasses corporate, commercial litigation and arbitration, employment and pensions, finance, marine and international trade and real estate.

They are now looking to hire a Financial Accountant to join the accounts team on a permanent basis. The accounts team is made up of several sections: management accounts; purchase ledger; partnership accounting; credit control; cashiering and billing.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of the firm\xe2\x80\x99s consolidated financial accounts for the Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) & the Limited company accounts.
• Planning the year-end financial process and liaison with the external auditors
• Liaising with the firm\xe2\x80\x99s international offices
• Working with the firm\xe2\x80\x99s partnership accountants regarding the allocation of the firm\xe2\x80\x99s distributable profits to each of the individual partners.
• Provision of detailed P&L and fixed asset schedules to the firm\xe2\x80\x99s external tax advisors, to enable them to prepare the LLP & company tax computations.
• Reconciliation of the draft tax computation to the P&L and initial review of the tax computation adjustments.
• Regular review of the balance sheet control accounts and bank reconciliations.
• Preparation of the firm\xe2\x80\x99s VAT returns.
• Keeping up to date with relevant changes in financial reporting, VAT legislation and Making Tax
• Annual review & maintenance of the firm\xe2\x80\x99s inter-office Transfer Pricing documentation and recharges
• Assist with the authorisation of bank payments, supplier invoices & staff expenses.
• Ad hoc information & projects for senior management.

Candidate Profile

• Qualified ACA accountant
• Strong excel skills
• A flexible, professional, and proactive attitude
• Able to use own initiative and challenge work practices
• Strong communication and inter-personal skills and excellent team player
• Be flexible to do any additional hours when necessary to meet task deadlines

Important Notice

It is Career Legal\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.

Permanent

2023-09-21

2023-11-08

Career Legal