Summary
- Closing Date: 2nd September 2024
- Location: Cardiff Office
- Salary: Competitive, depending on experience
- Job type: Permanent, full time
Job Description
Working as part of our Management Services Team you will be responsible for the day -to-day management and operation of the finance function. Controlling and posting finance data and producing reports from the accounts system.
The main responsibilities include:
- Posting supplier invoices, reconciling supplier statements and arranging payments.
- Posting fee invoices, credit notes, bill and disbursement writes offs.
- Monitoring and arranging payments to clients and other parties.
- Various reconciliations referring to office and client bank accounts and posting between them.
- Managing credit control and unbilled disbursements.
- Carrying out routine finance tasks including month end and financial year end reports.
- Supervising the Finance Assistant and providing appropriate training.
- Assisting the Finance Director when required.
- Assisting with the provision and collation of information for auditors.
- Undertaking special finance projects from time to time.
- Generating performance reports of individual departments and fee-earners.
- Handling accounts queries from staff.
- Ensuring compliance with the firm's policies, procedures and SRA rules.
Applicant Criteria
The successful candidate will be organised with meticulous attention to detail and a positive work ethic. You will have previous experience of working in a finance role, ideally but not necessarily within the legal profession. A working knowledge of SRA accounts rules is preferred but not essential.
Required skills and experience:
- Meticulous, tidy and able to comply with finance system deadlines.
- Excellent written, oral and interpersonal skills, liaising with colleagues, clients and other professional parties.
- Strong IT skills with a sound knowledge of legal accounts software and experience working with excel spreadsheets.
- Self-motivated, proactive with the ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Team working attributes, with a constant departmental improvement attitude.
- Identifier of unusual results, risk events and associated reporting obligations.
Salary and Benefits
As a Finance Manager you will receive:
- A competitive salary (dependant on experience) reviewed annually.
- 25 days annual leave (increasing to 28 days), plus bank holidays.
- Private medical insurance (after qualifying period).
- Free eye test and flu jab
- Employee Assistance Programme providing advice and guidance on medical, financial and legal issues. Plus, free counselling and wellbeing support services.