Project Accountant

Our Client is a full service commercial law firm based in London’s legal district. They have more than 60 partners and over 300 employees. The Finance department is made up of a central management team, Cashiers, Billing and Credit Control teams.

They are looking for a Project Accountant, the role is a 12-month fixed term contract (FTC) to provide support on several finance transformation projects and some backfill for elements of the management accounts, reporting, budgeting and reforecasting functions where existing team members are also supporting those projects. The Project Accountant will be involved in various long term financial reporting projects and will also have responsibility for the completion of recurring weekly / monthly tasks.

Responsibilities

• Leading on a project to implement a new set of dashboards to support data provision to department heads, partners and fee earners.
• Leading on the migration to a new reporting platform, including report review and development where required, ensuring the reports are built as defined and are bringing through the correct data.
• Supporting on the implementation of new budgeting, reforecasting and cash flow management software.
• Production and review of monthly management accounts reports.
• Involvement in managing the firm’s budgeting and reforecast processes.
• Leading on the firm’s annual review of charge out rates.
• Involvement in profitability reporting.
• Various aspects of statutory reporting including production of the financial statements.
• Involvement in audit planning, fieldwork requirements and sign off of financial statements.
• Assisting on aspects of partnership tax.
• Dealing with ad-hoc internal financial reporting queries as and when they arise.
• Approving banking transactions as and when required.
• Providing cover for team members during holiday or other absences.
• The Project Accountant will also be involved in other ad-hoc projects as and when they arise.

Candidate Profile

• Be a qualified accountant through ACCA/CIMA or equivalent.
• Have strong IT skills and excellent working knowledge of MS Excel, data extraction and analysis techniques, leading Practice Management / Accounting package (e.g. Elite/SAP) and Microsoft applications (particularly development of financial models in Excel including Lookup, Pivot and Chart functions).

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