Assistant Financial Accountant - London, United Kingdom - Reed Accountancy

Reed Accountancy

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Assistant Financial Accountant

Location:
London

Salary:
£30,000-£40,000

Study support offered

Our client is an independent law firm, which now employs over 600 lawyers offering a wide range of legal services to companies and individuals.

The firm has grown rapidly in the past decade, with more than 25% revenue growth in the past five years alone.

They are looking for 2 driven individuals to join their Finance team, reporting into the Head of Finance.

Key Responsibilities

To provide a high quality accounting service to the Firm; to be responsive to the changing needs and priorities of the department and to provide ad hoc support to departmental colleagues as and when required. The individual will be working closely withthe Financial Accounting Manager and Assistant Financial Accountant.
Preparation and posting of monthly accruals and prepayments;
Maintenance of fixed asset register;
Calculation and posting of fx revaluations for non GBP balances;
Preparation of monthly P&Ls and maintenance of monthly P&L reconciliations;
Preparation of monthly balance sheet and reconciliations and responsibility for managing asset leasing schedule;
Preparation and submission of quarterly VAT/GST returns for group subsidiaries;
Assistance in the preparation of Annual LLP Accounts and subsidiaries for audit review, liaising with auditors to provide additional analysis as required;
Completion of surveys (NSO, industry surveys, etc);
Responding to adhoc information requests and performing adhoc data analysis;
Input and recommendations to enhance current processes/systems/reporting methods;
Adhoc project work.

Qualifications and skills

Part qualified accountant, management accounting background preferred but not essential
Legal experience preferred but not essential
Willingness to "roll the sleeves" and to get the job done
Experience of using Aderant, or other similar practice management system
Excel/spreadsheet working to intermediate levels
Ability to write and run SQL queries preferred but not essential
Excellent interpersonal skills
Ability to 'run with the program'