The Financial Accounting Manager is a key member of the finance team involved in all aspects of the statutory accounting and reporting requirements. They will work closely with the Head of Financial Accounting and Head of Partnership Finance to provide high quality accounting services to the Firm.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Preparation of the Group and subsidiary financial statements in accordance with IFRS. This includes producing and coordinating the notes to financial statements and identifying and managing any changes to the accounting policies.
• Managing the UK and overseas subsidiary statutory accounts process.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards.
• Revising and improving group accounting policies to reflect business changes and amendments in accounting standards.
• Liaising with the firm's auditors and external advisors on all aspects of reporting and ensuring all relevant information is provided within agreed timeframes.
• Provide technical accounting advice as required in accordance with IFRS.
• Identifying any accounting or technical issues in accordance with IFRS and leading on the resolution of those issues.
• Ensuring compliance with HMRC and Companies House tax and statutory reporting requirements.
• Keeping statutory information up to date.
• Developing and implementing tools and processes to ensure accurate processing of global costs for statutory reporting.
• Review and oversee month end close entries (accruals, prepayments, depreciation, FX revaluations, ECL provision, accrued/deferred income, leases, recharges) made by the team and ensuring month end deliverables are produced within reporting timeframes and in line with accounting policies.
• Review of monthly P&L and Balance Sheet and corresponding reconciliations including all intercompany accounts between the LLP and subsidiary entities;
• Responsible for preparation, reconciliation and submission of monthly reporting data into monthly MI reporting platform (Anaplan).
• Review of quarterly VAT returns for the LLP and subsidiary entities.
• Assist in developing a robust control framework.
• Input and recommendations to enhance current processes/systems/reporting methods.
• Responding to ad-hoc information requests and performing ad-hoc analysis/project.

Skills/Experience

• A relevant recognised qualification such as ACA/ACCA/CIMA is required.
• Strong financial and statutory accounts background.
• Practice background preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Legal experience preferred but not essential.
• Experience of using Aderant, or other similar practice management system preferred but not essential.
• Excel/spreadsheet working to highest levels.
• Ability to write and run SQL queries preferred but not essential.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to manage a team.
• Strong attention to detail.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About The Mishcon de Reya Group

The Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent international professional service business with law at its heart, employing over 1450 people with close to 670 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services. We have grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone.

Based in London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Singapore, with an association with Karas So LLP in Hong Kong, the firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. The work we undertake is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning six core practice areas: Corporate; Dispute Resolution; Employment; Innovation; Private; and Real Estate.

As of 1 January 2023, Mishcon de Reya and Taylor Vinters merged. The merger delivers on both firms' strategies to support the innovation economy and accelerate our growing share of the technology, media and life-sciences legal and consultancy services market in the UK and in key international innovation hubs globally.

In times of such far-reaching and profound change we want to be the law firm that enables our clients - and our own people - to shape the world's possibilities. We are here to help our clients benefit from new economies, new geographic centres of wealth, the new global movement of people and capital, and the impact of new technologies and new knowledge.

Our purpose remains rooted in our founding values. We take pride in the diverse range of people who make up the firm and are proactive in driving change and continuous improvement across the spectrum of equality, diversity and inclusion. Mishcon Academy , our in-house place of learning, development and new thinking for our people, clients and contacts and our innovative impact strategy, including a commitment to be a net zero carbon business , also play a central strategic role in the direction of the firm. In 2020 we launched Mishcon Purpose , a first-of-its-kind sustainability practice providing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) advice and purpose-driven insight to clients.

The Mishcon de Reya Group comprises standalone businesses MDR Brand Management , MDR Cyber , MDR Discover , MDR One , MDR Mayfair (in London, Singapore and Dubai) and MDRx . Complementary to Mishcon de Reya's core areas of work, each is led by best in class professionals recruited from a variety of non-legal industries and sectors.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.

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