Job Description

Our client is a specialist law firm headquartered in London with offices across the United Kingdom. They provide a full range of human rights services including personal injury, employment and discrimination and clinical negligence.
They are now looking to hire a Finance Manager on a permanent basis in their Manchester office.
Responsibilities

• To ensure that all day-to-day transactions and cashiering duties, across all client and office accounts, are processed accurately and within appropriate deadlines.
• To assist the Finance Director in ensuring that the firm's policies and procedures comply with all appropriate standards, including SAR and AML regulations, as set out by the Law Society.

• To ensure that the firm's accounting procedures are adhered to and that fee earners are kept informed of relevant matters and receive information in a timely fashion.
• To ensure that ongoing training and support is provided to all members of the firm on the firm's accounting procedures and Solicitors Accounts Rules (SAR).
• To ensure that contact with clients or other external parties meet the firm's standards of client care.
• The development and oversight of a cashiering team, including staff recruitment, reviewing staff levels, cashier training, development, and appraisal.
• The implementation of existing and development of new processes, focusing on efficiency, identifying and applying process improvements where required.
• Involvement in firmwide projects to review and improve processes which include a Finance function.
• Legal cashiering and compliance to include recording client and office transactions accurately and adherence to the Firms SLA.
• To ensure awareness of the Firm's financial policies, procedures, and controls to all new starters.
• The on-going provision of advice and training to fee earners and teams on procedure and best practice.
• To ensure that a Senior member of accounts is represented at other departmental meetings.
• Oversight of daily bank reconciliations.
• Oversight of month end procedures.
• Assistance with financial management reporting as required.
• Support the preparatory work for the annual audit of accounts.

Candidate Profile

• Relevant accounting or Legal Finance qualifications. ACCA, CIMA or ILFM.
• An in-depth knowledge of the Solicitors Accounts Rules to ensure compliance with the regulations.
• Strong understanding of financial principles.
• Proven experience in client account management, reconciliations and month-end closing.
• Minimum experience of 3-5 years of work in a similar role within a law firm.
• Excellent organisational and time management/efficiency skills.
• Clear and concise written and oral communication.
• Experience of managing a team effectively.
• A track record of identifying, communicating and delivering process improvements.
• Elite 3e experience would be beneficial.

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