Job Description

To provide a high quality accounting service to the Firm; to be responsive to the changing needs and priorities of the department and to provide ad hoc support to departmental colleagues as and when required. The individual will be working closely with the Financial Accountants, Assistant Accountant and the Accounts Payable team.

• Preparation of monthly P&L’s - Departmental Contribution Statements / Overhead Statements / Firm Profit & Loss statements / P&L reconciliations;
• Critical variance analysis of performance against budget and prior year of firms costs;
• Liaising with Business Operations managers to improve their understanding of financial performance along with preparation of monthly departmental reports;
• Responsible for IT and Central Business Services departments, ensuring accurate reporting of costs and identifying variances to budget;
• Preparation of monthly balance sheet and reconciliations and responsibility for managing asset leasing schedule;
• Preparation of cost and overhead budgets;
• Full responsibility for the accounting of MDR Discover LLP, including reconciliations, monthly management accounts, quarterly VAT returns and annual accounts preparation;
• Review of weekly supplier/employee expenses payment runs ensuring appropriate authorisation and coding of invoices and expense claims;
• Assistance in the preparation of Annual LLP Accounts for audit review, liaising with auditors to provide additional analysis as required;
• Responding to ad-hoc information requests and performing ad-hoc data analysis;
• Input and recommendations to enhance current processes/systems/reporting methods;
• Ad-hoc project work.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Qualified accountant with strong financial and management accounting background Legal experience preferred but not essential Significant experience of using Aderant, or other similar practice management system Excel/spreadsheet working to highest levels Ability to write and run SQL queries preferred but not essential Excellent interpersonal skills Ability to 'run with the program'