Management Accountant

The Opportunity:

The Management Accountant will play a key role in the Group Accounting & Reporting function, with responsibility for delivering high-quality monthly reporting, robust balance sheet governance and insightful financial support to senior stakeholders. The role includes global ownership of critical provisioning and debtor processes and close partnership with local finance teams across the Middle East and Casablanca.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

Month end Accounting & Reporting

• Manage the Secondment / Location adjustment process end to end, ensuring accurate calculation, timely processing and robust controls over all related journals and recoveries.
• Prepare, review and resolve monthly balance sheet reconciliations, maintaining audit ready documentation and ensuring the integrity of control accounts across entities.
• Lead the monthly review of management accounts for the Middle East and Casablanca offices, providing analytical insight, variance commentary and proactive support to local teams.
• Take ownership of the global bad debt process, encompassing provisioning methodology, monthly calculations, challenge to assumptions, stakeholder alignment and policy adherence.
• Take ownership of the global hard disbursement provision process, including methodology, data integrity, monthly calculations, reconciliations, reporting and continuous improvement.
• Respond promptly and effectively to ad hoc financial queries from internal stakeholders, providing accurate information and analysis as required.

Annual Budget

• Provide support where necessary to specific annual budget queries.
• Adherence to a global timetable

Year end audit and statutory reporting responsibilities

• Manage the global hard disbursement provisions process and postings.
• Assist senior management with the year-end debtor certification process including review and analysis of certification process outcome.
• Liaise with the external auditors to ensure timey response to audit queries

This is a full-time, permanent role based in our Glasgow office with hybrid working.

More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site

About you:

The successful candidate will have:

• Accounting qualification (ICAS, ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA etc) or working towards a accounting qualification with relevant accounting experience.
• Experience of preparing and reviewing management accounts and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Good understanding of FRS 102 and statutory reporting.
• Highly numerate with a good understanding of financial and management information systems
• Advanced Excel and analytical skills, ability to manipulate and make sense of large volumes of data.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively, orally or in writing with all levels of stakeholders and staff.

What makes Ashurst a great place to work?

We offer you all the things you should expect from an international law firm, some of which include:

• competitive remuneration with the flexibility to reward high performance;
• flexible working;
• corporate health plans;
• a global professional development offering for all employees; and
• an industry-leading programme that celebrates diversity and inclusion.

We are committed to delivering positive impacts to our communities through our Social Impact programme.

We aim to recruit, retain and promote the best people from the widest possible talent pools. We are committed to offering a safe and welcoming environment for all employees to ensure they are supported to work at their best.

Beyond this, what sets Ashurst apart from others is our global strength, our drive to innovate and collaborate, and our commitment to excellence. It is these values that make Ashurst a unique place to work.