Assistant Partnership Accountant

A top UK law firm are looking for an Assistant Partnership Accountant to join their finance team and sit within the Partnership & Tax team.

Some of your responsibilities as the Assistant Partnership Accountant will include -

• Calculation and or review of partners monthly drawings.
• Ad-hoc partner payments.
• Review of partner "Joiner / Leaver" checklist and partners database
• Posting ad-hoc and year-end journals to Elite 3E practice management system.
• Supervising the maintenance and updating various interlinking spreadsheets relating to partners' records and remuneration.
• Analysing partner data with available systems and producing ad hoc reports to senior management.
• Creating new spreadsheets for reporting and efficiencies.
• Deal with partners, management team and international branch accountant on queries.
• Development of new spreadsheets for partner finance function.
• Reconciliation and analysis of individual partners' current, capital and tax suspense accounts.
• Preparing year-end partner financial statements.
• Various year-end partners tax calculations.
• Review and sign-off of worldwide reconciliation and payment schedule submission from international branches.
• Manage the partner drawings process and reconciliations in London
• Assist with International Drawings Process - including regular reconciliations and queries.
• Assist with management of international branch accountants on processes, policies and accounting for partner transactions, including assisting with GL enquiries and reporting from Elite 3E.
• Running monthly reports on partners' performance data for circulation and to use for calculating payments due to partners.
• Payment of partners' pension releases and other ad hoc payments to partners.
• Maintain, setup and review of worldwide partner information on Elite 3E.
• Run reports and check consultants' keys payment terms against reports and provide reports to management for approval, including setting up bespoke calculations for different terms.
• Reconciliation of partners' capital.
• Assist in the preparation of undrawn profit distributions payment schedules.
• Assist in the preparation of FSP bonus payment schedules.
• Post, administer and reconcile partners' tax payments.
• Maintain and update partners' remuneration spreadsheets.
• Assist with process of partner capital subscriptions.
• Prepare annual analysis of partners tax suspense accounts.
• Assisting with the preparation of various worldwide year-end partner calculations.
• Assisting with reconciliation of annual partners current account.
• Assist with calculation of partner tax reserves and reconciliation of reserves versus actual at year-end.

To be successful in this Assistant Partnership Accountant position you must have -

• Experience in partner remuneration, distribution of drawings, and tax ideal
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Excel and Word. Advanced Excel ideal, ie. Macros, nested IF statements, Pivot Tables, complex formulae
• VBA skills advantageous
• Experience in using different legal software, ie Elite 3E, Aderant
• Understanding double entry accounting
• Able to read and analyse General Ledger Transactions
• Understanding accounting terminology
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills - both verbal and written
• Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise conflicting demands
• Fast learner who is able to adapt
• Strong team player who understands team goals and expectations

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