Financial Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Full accountability for quality of all services rendered by finance within the office including matter management, credit control, financial reporting,and payroll, tax filing, banking, treasury and cash management.
- Improvement of internal control and compliance within the office by developing and enforcing policies and procedures to ensure a good financial hygiene, to safeguard the assets of the firm, and to manage any financial and/or operational risks.
- Improve business efficiency within the function and the practice. Lead the team to set best practice across each practice.
- Driving the financial performance through proactively providing and analyzing management information, identifying any issues in the business, developing options and implementing solutions to improve performance.
- Be the key financial advisor to the partners and management of the office, develop partners' understanding of financial issues and encourage them to take financial responsibility. Inform and improve their financial decision making.
- Provision and interpretation of financial management information, variance and profitability analyses to interested parties in your office and propose changes when necessary.
- Lead annual budget process by giving guidance and support to advisors on the budget of each practice group. Help the practice groups to understand the financial key drivers and how it relates to business assumptions.
- Support the strategic decisions and initiatives of the office and practice groups from finance perspective, which includes financial modelling and analysis, financial risk assessment, change related financial policies and procedures, monitor the process and measure the achievement.
- Proactively identify any business improvement opportunities from finance perspective, give the advice and proposal to the senior management, and drive the changes when appropriate.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified Accountant
- Experience managing a sizeable finance team
- Strong leadership
- Experience of working directly with senior management in a commercial organization.
- Professional firm (law, accounting, consulting) experience is beneficial
Reference no: 109615