Senior Assistant Accountant - 15 months FTC - #1795309

Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition.

With 1200+ lawyers, 300+ partners, 28 offices and 17 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Finance team, with the addition of a Senior Assistant Accountant - 15 months FTC.

The opportunity for you

The Senior Assistant Accountant performs a variety of tasks to support sound financial discipline and control to deliver routine and periodic financial reporting. They will report directly to the Finance Manager based in Liverpool and work alongside three other colleagues in the Financial Accounting team. They will provide information and support to budget holders across the firm as well as analyse financial data to support operational budget controls and projects led by the Finance team. This is a dynamic opportunity to contribute to strategic financial initiatives and mentor others within a collaborative and forward-thinking finance team.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the preparation and review of period-end management accounts, including complex accruals, prepayments and other journal entries
• Preparation of monthly budget cost variance analysis through routine liaison with budget holders
• Provide financial insights and support to budget holders and project leads, including handling ad hoc financial queries and leading quarterly spend reviews to ensure effective budget management and informed decision-making
• Oversee VAT return preparation
• Cashflow forecast preparation
• Maintaining Balance Sheet controls including performing monthly reconciliations
• Prepare and maintain interest on capital schedules, ensuring accuracy in calculations
• Coordinate and help prepare the annual budgeting and reforecasting processes
• Completing quarterly and annual ONS surveys
• Act as a key liaison during annual audits, ensuring timely and accurate documentation
• Mentor and support junior accounting staff, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Ensure adherence to internal controls and compliance with financial regulations
• Providing cover for team members as necessary
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• Proven experience in a similar accounting or finance role, ideally within a professional services environment.
• Strong understanding of financial controls, reporting standards, and compliance.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial systems.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present financial information clearly to non-financial stakeholders.
• A proactive, adaptable, and collaborative team player.
• Actively pursuing or qualified with a recognized accounting body (AAT, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
  
  

Benefits

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer;

• Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week)
• Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata).
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child).
  
  

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available.

Our culture

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation. We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team. We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

The way we work

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.

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