Recruiter

Ryder Reid Legal Ltd

Salary

Competitive

Location

London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Our client, a Global and award winning law firm, are looking to recruit a Finance Director to oversee the entire Finance function across the EMEA region. As the EMEA Finance Director, you will manage the financial function from a strategic standpoint and also oversee all operational initiatives.



This role is a number one position in London covering the London/EMEA region and will report directly to the Global Chief Finance Officer as well as work closely with the Firm's Regional Chief Operating Officer. The role is an exciting position and will offer someone the opportunity to really shape the Finance function across EMEA. The Firm have recently undergone a restructure so there will be a focus on integrating the team as well as embedding new processes/systems and ensuring that the Firm are compliant from a Finance perspective in each of their jurisdictions.


This will suit someone who has excellent leadership skills but is also used to working as part of a global management team. The role will have responsibility for all (strategic and non-strategic) financial functions and initiatives in the region and through the Firm's shared services centres, including:

· Pricing & Inventory management

· Budgeting & financial projections

· Tax planning

· Financial modelling, analysis & reporting

Provide support to the firm's global Finance Department areas
Actively promote the coordination between finance and the firms other functions to work towards meeting the firm initiatives across the EMEA region,
Ensure the firm's compliance with the Solicitors' Accounts Rules,
Suggest and implement improvements to financial systems and processes and liaising with auditors and other advisors.


Ideally, The EMEA Finance Director will be educated to degree level and ACA/ACCA qualified with sound commercial awareness and up to date knowledge of SARs and VAT. In addition our client requires the successful Finance Director candidate to have previous law firm background and an adaptable, flexible and solution driven approach. The salary is extremely competitive with a generous bonus and benefits package. The firm is highly sought after by legal candidates and with a low staff turnover, they are renowned for their professional and friendly working environment. The role offers a fantastic career opportunity to work for a progressive and dynamic law firm.


Ryder Reid will respond to all successful applications within 5 working days. If you have not been contacted within this period your application has been unsuccessful. Due to the volume of CVs that we receive, it is not possible to reply to every individual application. If you do not receive a reply for this particular vacancy please do not let this deter you from applying for future roles.

Recruiter

Kinsella Ziegler

Salary

Competitive

Location

London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Our client is an award-winning, international design agency. The company has grown remarkably in the recent past and looks after a collection of impressive big-name clients.

It is seeking a Junior Lawyer/Commercial Contracts Manager, ideally with IP experience, to be responsible for managing existing client contracts and reviewing, drafting and negotiating all new contracts. You will also assist the Group Finance Director in developing and enhancing the company’s ability to identify contractual, commercial and legal risk and to use best practice to eliminate or manage these risks.

The culture is collegiate, creative and supportive; and the environment is fast-paced and exciting! The ideal candidate will be a lightning- quick thinker with bags of initiative, a commercial mind and the confidence and charm to liaise with the talented internal creative teams, external counsel and clients alike.

For further information, please send your CV by email to our consultants, Siobhan Kinsella and Georgina du Pon, in the strictest confidence.

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Recruiter

Hudson

Salary

Competitive

Location

London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a real success story. Our client is a family-run design agency based in Central London who, due to exponential growth, has a newly created opportunity for a commercial contracts manger to join their team and support the transaction of key commercial contracts with their clients.

Reporting to the Finance Director you will provide legal support on important design projects and will work across the business from account directors to the creative team and your role will include:

* Understanding the issues that the business faces, analyzing and interpreting legal contractual risks to the wider business
* Drafting negotiating and finalizing client contracts for design projects including NDAs and intellectual property rights matters.
* Drafting and negotiating non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements with clients and suppliers.
* Liaising with external law firm to co-ordinate the delivery of the contract
* Providing internal advice to the business on marketing limitations
* Meeting clients and travel with decision makers and key influences when applications.
* Undertaking due diligence when needed
* Debt management action when required.
* Undertaking duties on an ad hoc basis to support the Group Finance Director.

This role would suit a contracts manager who has had significant in-house experience. Experience of working within a creative / design agency environment would be advantageous. You should have excellent contracts management skills ideally coupled with solid intellectual property rights experience. You will be a discreet individual who is outgoing and flexible and should enjoy the demands of this fast-paced role within a vibrant industry.

Our client is looking for a candidate who is willing to forge a meaningful career with them, and they will offer excellent work, a friendly working environment and a good package for the right candidate.

Should you feel you have what it takes and would like to find out more, please contact Sarita or Catherine at Hudson with your CV, quoting reference UK685618. Alternatively, please feel free to call on [contact details removed] .

Please note you will receive an automated response advising you that we have received your CV.

Hudson is a leading provider of permanent recruitment, contract professionals and talent management solutions worldwide.

Recruiter

Career Legal (Accounts)

Salary

From £40,000 to £45,000 per year

Location

London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Our client is ranked as one of the UK’s leading law firms with nearly 100 partners. They work in a number of practice areas including: Real Estate, Media, Leisure & Finance. They work with a well-established national and international client base.

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Revenue Controller to join their Accounts Department, to work with partners and fee earners in providing efficient working capital management for the firm.

Responsibilities include:

Report and review WIP and disbursements on a monthly basis to identify specific actions to be taken.

Attendance at monthly departmental meetings to report on WIP and disbursements and make recommendations on action to be taken where necessary.

WIP, disbursement and portfolio management through regular meetings with fee earners and partners.

Undertake firm-wide WIP write off exercises and firm-wide disbursements reviews at least twice a year.

Annual year-end WIP revaluation exercise for the year end Statutory Accounts.

Liaise with Finance, and in particular Billing, as necessary, e.g. write offs and transfers between matters.

Provide information to the Finance Director as and when needed.

Candidate Profile

You will be an experienced Revenue Controller from a law firm.

In-depth knowledge of the Solicitors’ Accounts Rules and VAT is essential.

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

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

Recruiter

Career Legal (Accounts)

Salary

From £30,000 to £35,000 per year + Pro rata

Location

London

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

My Client is one of the largest barristers’ chambers in the City of London and has been established for over thirty years. They work across all areas of law, with a strong passion for civil liberties and human rights.

They are looking to hire an experienced Credit Controller for a 6-month fixed-term contract, to focus on reducing the Chamber’s aged debt. An understanding of the complex industry that Chambers’ operate in is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Managing problem aged debt owed to Chambers and the ability to hit the ground running.

Reporting to the Finance Director on a weekly basis on the progress of the reduction of aged debt.

Small Claims Court applications for unpaid debts. Managing the legalities of larger debt recovery.

Providing valuable input to the fee-chasing cycle and procedures with amendments and advice as required.

Understanding of how to read and analyse Chambers aged debt reports.

A willingness to offer personal visits to clients when chasing fees.

A willingness to learn about the specific fee-chasing functions of each Barrister Department - crime, civil, housing, immigration, family.

The ability to work unmanaged and with self-motivation as well as closely with the rest of the finance team.

Able to respond in a timely manner to Barristers’ individual aged debt issues and queries.

Candidate Profile

You will be an experienced Credit Controller from the professional services, ie. law, accountancy, ‘Big 4’.

Experience of Chambers will be an advantage. Able to commit to a 6-month contract.

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this fixed term contract vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.

Recruiter

McKinlay Law Partnership

Salary

From £23,000 to £23,000 per year

Location

London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Legal cashier £23k. Leading law firm based in Holborn are looking for someone with a year's experience in an accounts department looking to train further. It is essential you have a year's experience in a London law firm. The role will include a wide variety of finance duties including general administration in accounts as well as actual accounts work. Excellent training and a very friendly firm. Legal cashier.


If you’re interested in seeing more of McKinlay Law’s current vacancies for positions in legal finance/accounts, please click on our logo at the top left hand corner of this advert.

The McKinlay Law Partnership has been a leading recruiter for legal finance/accounts roles since 1994. If you have experience within legal accounts in any of the following roles, we are very keen to see a CV from you: Finance Director, Finance Manager, Management Accountant, Accounts Assistant, Legal Cashier, Costs Draftsman, Credit Control or Billing.

It is McKinlay Law’s policy to respond to all successful applications normally within a working day. If you haven’t received a call from us within this period your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Regrettably, due to the volume of CVs that we receive, it is not possible to respond to every application.

Recruiter

Ambition

Salary

Competitive

Location

The City

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

A thriving top 100 law firm with a growing reputation and headcount is looking to recruit a Legal Cashier Supervisor into its London office to manage its legal cashier team. This role reports directly into the Finance Director.

The main responsibility of the role is ensuring the performance of the team adheres to the cashiering team's agreed service levels, performing daily/weekly/monthly bank reconciliations on the firm's client, office, deposit and deputyship accounts and the administration and reconciliation of petty cash. It also involves monitoring that Chaps, Bacs and cheque requests are administered in a timely and accurate manner, the client and office bank accounts are correctly managed on a daily basis and ensuring all receipts/payments have been correctly processed. This is a hands-on role and the successful applicant would be expected to cover the full spectrum of cashiering, billing and purchase ledger duties when required. The managerial aspect of the position requires someone to supervise the work-flow within the team, distributing and prioritising workload for the team members and providing help and support where necessary.

Applicants should have extensive legal accounts experience and be able to demonstrate previous managerial roles where they have lead teams of at least four individuals. It requires someone with a practical approach who is happy to get involved in the transactional work as and when required and be happy to lead from the front when the workload requires it. Previous experience of using either Aderant or Elite Enterprise is essential as are strong Excel skills. Given the nature of the work a strong working knowledge of the Solicitor Accounts Rules are also a pre-requisite and may be tested as part of the interview.

Recruiter

GR Law (TL)

Salary

From £28,000 to £30,000 per year

Location

The City

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Legal Cashier (office) - Up to £30k

This top 30 Uk law firm, based close to Holborn are looking for an office cashier to within a busy finance team, on both office and client accounts.

The role will involve daily review of European funds, account reconciliation, posting multi-currency transactions for European offices and processing purchase ledger.

Up to date experience working in a UK law firm, in a cashier role which focuses on office accounts is essential for this role which requires working knowledge of SRA, VAT and AML regulations.

The role requires candidates with strong IT skills particularly in MS Excel and Elite 3e software and all candidates must be familiar with partner liaison.

If you have the required experience and are looking for your next step in legal accounts, apply now or contact John Bruce quoting reference 81706 for further information.

This is only one of the accounts roles we are currently recruiting on, many of which aren't advertised. We recruit at all levels from accounts assistant/junior level to Finance Directors, and across all specialism's from generalist accounts to cashiering, credit control, revenue control, management accounts etc. So if you are currently looking for a new opportunity or you know someone who is, please do not hesitate to contact me for an informal discussion on potential roles and opportunities in the market currently.

Recruiter

GR Law (TL)

Salary

From £30,000 to £35,000 per year

Location

The City

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Legal Billing Coordinator (6 month contract) - Up to £35k

This mid sized international firm, based close to Holborn, have a need for a legal biller to join a very stable team to provide an efficient billing service to the firm.

Working alongside a busy finance team and reporting into the revenue controller, you will provide assistance with outgoing bills, WIP reports, write offs, transfers and incoming expert fees allocating them to relevant cases, as well as monitoring monies on both office and client account.
Candidates must have a thorough understanding of the legal billing process and worked within a recognised law firm. Full understanding of SAR, AML and VAT rules and regulations are essential. Whilst experience working on Elite 3e software would be advantageous.

This role will suit a strong team player who can work on their own initiative and is prepared to be hands-on in this role. To be considered please contact John Bruce quoting ref 81501.

This is only one of the accounts roles we are currently recruiting on, many of which aren't advertised. We recruit at all levels from accounts assistant/junior level to Finance Directors, and across all specialism's from generalist accounts to cashiering, credit control, revenue control, management accounts etc. So if you are currently looking for a new opportunity or you know someone who is, please do not hesitate to contact me for an informal discussion on potential roles and opportunities in the market currently.