This international city law firm is looking to hire a Finance Manager to work with Finance Director on a permanent basis.
£80,000 - £95,000
4 days in the office, 1 remote
City of London
This newly created role will see the incoming Finance Manager, build a brand-new team for the London office, enhancing existing processes and working on a broad range of finance related projects. These functions should include, but are not limited to budgeting, financial statement preparation, general accounting and accounts payable, billing and collections, and financial analysis.
Finance Manager responsibilities include:
- Managing the day–to–day financial accounting operations and finance assistants of the London office
- Responsible for all London general ledger/balance sheet accounts. Liaising with head office to ensure all reconciliations are complete and reconciling items are researched and resolved
- Support the London budgeting and forecasting processes
- Monthly completion of the London financial results
- Research and reconcile all variances against expense budgets
- Support local treasury function and cash flow management
- Preparation of annual partnership tax return
- Preparation of London VAT returns
- Day-to-day management of client money procedures, controls and the annual SRA audit
- Responsible for compliance and consistency with established local and/or firmwide procedures, internal controls and policies (assist in development and modification of methodologies as required, automating and streamlining process where applicable)
- Implement best practices, and ensure proper documentation and training is provided
- Support the implementation/roll-out of financial software and applications in the London office
- Support the relationship with outside tax accountants and Firmwide Director of taxation, provision of timely financial information for UK tax return preparation
- Ad-hoc reporting for London Business Services
Finance Manager requirements:
- Accounting qualification preferred
- Minimum several years of related legal finance experience, including all aspects of accounting and financial functions
- Experience of handling SRA audits and strong VAT / compliance knowledge
- Knowledge of partnership tax returns would also be of advantage
- Line management experience
- Working knowledge of Elite 3e, Chrome River and advanced Excel preferred