• Manage email enquiries, ensuring timely and accurate responses
• Support on the yearly audit, ensuring full compliance with the SRA Accounts Rules throughout the year.
• Manage daily cashflow, including cash balance monitoring, currency trades, and preparation of internal reporting
• Maintain the bills list and carry out associated compliance checks
• Prepare monthly VAT reports (recoverable and payable) for the UK and Germany, and prepare VAT returns for management review and submission
• Prepare and submit statutory and regulatory statistics returns, ensuring accuracy and timely filing
• Support the annual budget process, including data gathering, departmental liaison, and preparation of supporting schedules
• Conduct financial analysis, including actual vs budget variance reporting, balance sheet reviews, and profit and loss accuracy checks
• Record and report client receipts
• Review and post journals
• Manage expense and invoice approvals via Emburse
• Process and manage vendor uploads
• Perform monthly bank reconciliations and monitor daily bank balances

Support team members where needed, including oversight of day-to-day transactional processing such as payment runs, card and expense processing, invoice entry, and intercompany billing

Skills and Competencies

• Minimum of five years’ legal accounts experience
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Experience with Aderant and Chrome River
• Strong organizational, analytical and problem solving skills
• In depth knowledge of the Solicitors Accounts Rules
• Advanced knowledge of Excel and Microsoft programs

Experience delegating to and supporting junior members of staff desirable