Assistant Group Accountant

Role: Assistant Group Accountant
Salary: Up to £53,000
Location: London (hybrid working, minimum 60% office attendance)
Contract: Permanent

Are you a part qualified ACCA professional looking to broaden your experience beyond day to day transactional work? A well established international law firm is seeking an Assistant Group Accountant to join its London Finance team. This is a genuinely developmental role, giving you exposure to general ledger oversight, financial reporting and FP&A across a busy international office network, with real scope to grow your technical skills alongside your studies.

The Role
Working closely with the Group Finance Manager, the Assistant Group Accountant will help oversee the general ledger and reporting submissions of the firm's international offices, ensuring consistency of accounting practice across the group. Key responsibilities include:

• Working closely with International Office Finance Managers and FP&A colleagues to ensure consistent application of accounting policies and practices across the firm.
• Overseeing monthly management accounts submissions from all offices.
• Reviewing office P&Ls and balance sheet composition and reconciliation schedules, following up directly with offices where questions arise.
• Assisting with monthly bank reconciliation reviews.
• Ensuring consistency of posting treatment in the general ledger to enable meaningful firm wide comparison by P&L and balance sheet categorisation.
• Taking on monthly management accounting duties for a small number of international offices, including postings to the general ledger and preparation of month end accounts, with the opportunity to cover other offices as needed.
• Developing a deep understanding of the firm's Practice Management System as the core data source for management reporting.
• Assisting with the review of budgeted overheads during the annual budget process, coordinating amendments with International Office Finance Managers, and ensuring recharges from London to international offices are correctly reflected in the budget model.
• Gaining hands on experience of the firm's budgeting and fixed asset register tool, including direct entry of budget information where required.
• Working with internal audit to help address control weaknesses identified through fieldwork, and supporting the coordination of information for the firm's external auditors.
• Proactively identifying opportunities to improve financial processes and policies, and proposing practical solutions.
• Providing general ledger ad hoc reporting and analysis at the request of senior finance personnel.

The Candidate
We are looking for a motivated, part qualified ACCA candidate with:

• A degree along with A Levels or AAT (or equivalent), and part qualified ACCA status with a genuine desire to complete studies in the near future.
• Around two years of experience working in finance within the legal sector, professional services, or audit.
• A strong focus on general ledger management and housekeeping.
• Experience with a legal Practice Management System, ideally 3E, would be an advantage.
• Advanced Excel and data management skills, with the ability to locate, evaluate and relay data as meaningful, value added information.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence to proactively keep a wide range of stakeholders updated.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise conflicting demands.
• A high level of attention to detail and a genuinely questioning mindset.
• The ability to take ownership of your own work and learn quickly from experience.

Interested to be considered or to find out more? Please apply now or contact Becky Bradley at Balance Recruitment to discuss further. Don't worry if you don't have your CV together yet, we can help with that.
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