Legal Finance Manager (Law Firm)
- Manage the entire accounting function for a commercial law firm.
- Provide strategic business input and ensure compliance with regulations.
- Foster a positive team culture and work-life balance.
Legal Finance Manager/Bookkeeper (LAW FIRM)
**KEY full-spectrum hands-on role ** Fulfilling Career+ LIFE friendly. Fabulous boss. Refreshing warm friendly culture. Delightful team. $85,000-$100,000. Sydney.
YOUR NEW EMPLOYER
Our client is an outstanding commercial law firm with an impressive 90+ years of success.
The firm attracts talented industry-leading professionals who desire blue-chip clients, stimulating work, a collaborative positive team culture, learning/growth, stability and healthy work/life balance….long-term.
YOUR NEW ROLE
In this KEY important role (as the only internal accountant),reporting to the Managing Partner/Director, you will relish the challenge+ diversity of taking 100% ownership of the firm’s entire accounting function-from the basic day-to-day to high-end strategic business input.
In particular, you will be responsible for:
- accounts payable, accounts receivable, financial+ management reporting, reconciliations,trust accounting/controlled monies, budgets/forecasts, cash flows, PAYG, overseeing payroll (outsourced), variance analysis, superannuation, BAS and GST;
- ensuring corporate governance/regulatory compliance (including Law Society trust account audits) and renewing/managing insurances (workers compensation, Law Society professional indemnity, fire/theft/property);
- providing value-add commercial/strategic business input as required.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
- Advance your career with this flourishing law firm with an enviable reputation spanning 90+ successful years;
- Autonomy+Control with 100% full ownership of your role-make your personal MARK;
- Variety;
- Fully use/stretch your accounting expertise;
- Down-to-earth, mature+ inclusive family-like culture;
- Supportive+ friendly boss who takes great care of staff;
- Healthy Life/Work balance.
WHO YOU ARE
We are interested in hearing from you if you:
- are degree/diploma qualified in accounting/bookkeeping [or similar]+ are preferably (but not essential) CA/CPA qualified [or studying/partly qualified- but not essential];
- have minimum 4-10+years broad hands-on accounting experience as an accountant or bookkeeper;
- have worked in a law/accounting firm with experience in trust accounts (essential);
- have high accuracy/attention to detail with high commercial acumen [all essential];
- Have used AFFINITY legal accounting software (desirable);
- are efficient, deadline driven +have proven ability to thrive in a busy multi-tasking environment.
Reference: Maria Yun (**********)
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