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Financial Accountant

A leading top 10 law firm are recruiting a Financial Accountant to join their global team in London on a permanent basis.

As the Financial Accountant you will be responsible for preparing financial accounts, production of supporting documentation for the annual audits, maintaining accurate ledgers and reconciliations to support the worldwide balances and accounts for the firm and, overseeing the production of monthly and quarterly client reporting.

Your role will also include:

*Assisting in preparing annual consolidated partnership accounts and LLP accounts
*Liaising with auditors and ensuring that financial reporting deadlines are met
*Preparing a detailed analysis from the financial accounts for tax computation purposes where necessary
*Reconciliation of individual partner's current, capital and tax accounts and ensuring all recharges for insurances and loan capital interest are recorded accurately
*Prepare monthly drawings and quarterly distributions
*Assist in clean-up of ledger balances within accounting system
*Preparation of finance models for new office proposals and new partner recruitment
*Produce the WIP by matter partner report at year end for statutory accounts purposes
*Produce UKMEA group balance sheets for the management accounts pack on a monthly basis
*Work on ad hoc projects as required

For the Financial Accountant role, they are looking for you to be ACA/ACCA qualified, have knowledge of Elite and have previous experience in dealing with partners and senior management. Excellent Excel skills, and customer facing skills are a prerequisite alongside, a methodical work approach and the ability to interact positively with your team.

If you are interested, please apply!