Assistant Accountant

1 week ago

Basingstoke, United Kingdom Career Legal Full time

Our client is a leading UK and international law firm which provides high quality legal advice tailored to both businesses and individuals. They have several offices across the UK in the London, Basingstoke, Birmingham, Cambridge, Guildford, Oxford and Readingwhile their overseas network stretches from Asia to Europe.

With 130 partners and over 880 people in total, their main areas of practice are dispute resolution, corporate and commercial, real estate, private client, and family.

They are now looking for a Assistant Accountant to be part of Finance team responsible for bookkeeping and financial reporting activities covering accounting, reporting and tax compliances for four of their international offices.

**Responsibilities**
- Act as key point of contact for the overseas finance staff.
- Take responsibility to request, scrutinise and post the overseas cashbooks into the finance system.
- Reconciliation of the overseas bill books, highlighting and resolving any differences.
- Ownership of the overseas fixed asset registers - recording of additions and disposals, calculating and posting the monthly depreciation adjustments.
- Maintain and update the prepayments and accruals schedules.
- Responsibility for setting up and recording transactions in both UK and overseas bank accounts, reconciliations thereof.
- Review, process and follow up approval of invoices and expenses, using SAP Concur. Ensure invoices and employee expenses are properly approved, coded, and paid in a timely manner.
- Preparation of schedules and collation of information to assist with regular VAT/GST and other submissions.
- Assist with intercompany invoicing, recharges, journal posting and reconciliation processes.
- Assist in the preparation of monthly management accounts.
- Assistance with the annual statutory audit.
- Active participation in team and departmental meetings.
- Undertake any specific training when required to do so and overall to have a responsibility towards self-development.
- Adhere to a strict internal control environment, ensuring firm policies, processes and procedures are followed.
- Assisting within the department or any other duties as reasonably required for both overseas and UK offices.
- AAT or ACCA studier who is enthusiastic and ambitious to learn and grow within the role.
- A clear ability to manage and prioritise a complex and changing workload, with the ability to work under pressure within tight deadlines, whilst maintaining a high attention to detail at all times.
- A strong team player who can work within a team and also individually.
- Numerate with robust double entry skills.
- Experience of bookkeeping, including prepayments, accruals, fixed assets and bank reconciliations.
- IT literate with good excel skills including VLOOKUP, pivot tables.
- Good communications skills, both written and verbal.
- A background in law and experience of Elite are desirable but not essential for this role.
- Experience working with multiple currencies is advantageous.

**Important Notice**

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this **permanent**vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.

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