Finance Assistant

The role

This is an excellent opportunity for a proven Finance Assistant to join our growing Finance team. You will be primarily taking over the responsibility of calculating monthly commission payable to consultants and staff following adequate training and handover by our Payroll team.  Other duties include providing day-to-day support to both the Senior Management Accountant and Senior Financial Accountant on a variety of tasks including, but not limited to, Balance Sheet reconciliations including fixed assets, analysing costs and performing VAT compliance tasks.  You will be reporting to the Senior Financial Accountant.

Our Finance team experience very high volumes, meaning you will gain exposure to a variety of different tasks on a daily basis.

Role responsibility

As a Finance Assistant you will have responsibility for tasks across the key areas of Consultants, VAT, Financial Accounts Support and Stakeholder reporting. These will include;

• Calculating monthly commission for Consultants and Employees.  Responding to ad hoc queries on the calculations performed on a timely basis.
• Collating working hours/days paid reports for Business Services Managers and Partners.
• Liaising with the catering team regarding Consultants' catering costs. Producing a summary and Instructing the Billing team to prepare sundry invoices accordingly.  Checking these and sending on to consultants.
• Assisting the Senior Management Accountant (SMA) with reviewing Sales invoices to check if VAT chargeable, based on country and matter description.
• Assisting the SMA with ad hoc VAT projects, reviewing VAT rates on hospitality and expenses claimed through our expense system Chrome River.
• Updating and reconciling the Sundry invoices ledger to the billing team's register of sundry invoices.
• Running detailed month-end sub-ledger reports and checking totals to control accounts.
• Checking a selection of Balance Sheet accounts on a monthly basis to ensure that they agree to underlying reconciliations e.g. loan/lease creditors.
• Assisting the SFA with updating the Fixed Asset Register on a monthly basis.
• Assisting with updating the daily cash flow report.
• Assisting the SFA with getting supporting records for the auditors' substantive testing for the annual audit.
• Checking that the annual certificates of interest paid by the Partners agree to their drawings records.
• Assisting the SFA with survey submissions to the Office for National Statistics.
• Assisting the SFA to analyse income and expenditure ledgers for BDO's tax team.
• Performing ad hoc interest calculations for our Residential Development team.

About you

Ideally you will be able to demonstrate;

• AAT studies or equivalent qualification
• Experience in a similar role in the legal sector and/or broader professional services industry.
• An ability to manage both internal and external stakeholder relationships effectively, working well as a team.
• Excellent communication skills.
• A cooperative approach to working in a team.
• Organisation skills with the ability to manage your own workload well in order to meet all deadlines required.
• Flexibility in your approach to tasks.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• The confidence and ability to take responsibility and lead on tasks where appropriate.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual holiday
• Permanent Health Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Interest free Season Ticket Loan
• Private Healthcare
• Pension Scheme
• Staff Introductory Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

About us

We are a London based, full-service law firm, specialising in providing straightforward advice to entrepreneurial businesses and individuals on domestic and international matters.

We have grown substantially in recent years, including two mergers and an office move. We’ve also matured in terms of our approach to providing advice to our clients, seeking to simplify and improve the experience of working with a modern, independent law firm.

We’re proud of our journey. Without losing sight of where we’ve come from, we are focused on where we’re going. We are evolving and growing every day. And just like our clients, we are ambitious and moving forward. Many of our clients are entrepreneurial, ambitious enterprises who are often privately or family owned, or private equity backed. We are one of the only London based law firms with a large private wealth offering alongside significant business law capability.

The firm also advises major corporates on particular specialist legal matters who find our straightforward approach a compelling alternative to larger, less personal firms.