Finance Administrator
Full Time
Job Description
- Assisting the Group Finance Manager in working closely with International Office Finance Managers and team colleagues to ensure consistent application of accounting policies and practices across the firm and adherence to firm guidelines.
- Responsible for overseeing monthly management accounts submissions by all offices.
- Reviewing office p&ls and office balance sheet composition and reconciliation schedules, following up with offices where questions arise.
- Assisting the Group Finance Manager in respect of monthly bank reconciliation reviews.
- Ensuring consistency of posting treatment in the General Ledger throughout the firm to enable meaningful firm-wide comparison by p&l and balance sheet categorizations.
- Ensuring costs to be recharged from London to international offices are correctly included in the budget model and communicated accordingly.
- Working with internal audit where their fieldwork identifies areas of weakness that could be addressed via improved controls and practices at an operational level, and helping to implement such improvements where it is appropriate for these be driven by the Team.
- Assisting with the co-ordination and delivery of information requested by the firm's external auditors during their fieldwork.
- Assisting the Group Finance Manager to proactively establish where improvements to financial processes and policies are required through review, investigation and proposal of practical solutions.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Studying towards the ACCA accounting qualification.
- Experience working in the legal sector, professional services, or audit thereof.
- Strong focus on General Ledger management and housekeeping required.
- Advanced Excel and data management skills.
- Desire to develop technical skills with ability to locate, evaluate and relay relevant data as meaningful value-added information to wide variety of recipients.
Reference no: 97548