Haseltine Lake Kempner
Finance Director/Financial Controller/Head of Finance – Maternity cover
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About the Role
This role is all about looking after the firm’s finances and its finance team whilst our FD is on maternity leave. Reporting to the CEO the main responsibilities are:
- Delivering useful insight to the executive and partner groups
- Managing and motivating the finance team (10 people)
- Forward-looking analysis, reports, systems, structures
- Stewardship – having their arms around the numbers, pro-actively ensuring the security of the firm’s assets, managing its liabilities, and ensuring that its records are accurate and complete.
This is a wide-ranging role involving significant liaison with the firm’s partner group, fee-earning teams, and Management Team.
Experience and Qualifications
The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant (CIMA/ACA/ACCA) with prior experience in a senior role in a medium-large company
- Experience in managing and motivating a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience in monthly accounts, journals, budgeting, credit control.
- The ideal candidate will have experience in:
- LLP accounts
- International operations
- Experience in project management
- Experience of Business Central
Key Skills
- Articulate, confident, self-starter, with excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
- Credible, able to inspire confidence in others, responsive to challenge, collegiate, and able to build relationships whilst providing constructive challenge.
- Detail-oriented, can understand, and communicate economic drivers, and has an intuitive grasp of what outputs should look like.
- Able to rapidly understand a business, establish credibility and operate effectively with limited induction.
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Responsibilities and Aspects of the Role
- Maintain robust financial control
- Take overall responsibility for the ledgers overseeing the Management Accountant, Finance Supervisor, Purchase Ledger Supervisor, Credit Control Manager, and their respective teams.
- Primary liaison with the third-party implementation partner for the Finance & Billing system, completing agreed projects already in progress and supporting with ongoing development and projects.
- Deliver accurate reporting and forecasting.
- Managing cash flow and funding
- Lead the preparation of annual statutory accounts.
- Support CEO and Board.
- Liaison with external auditors, tax advisors, and banks, for both the UK and Germany.
- Take overall responsibility for ensuring the accuracy of Members’ profit share calculations, current, and capital accounts.
- Maintain momentum on agreed strategic and operational initiatives while safeguarding financial performance and compliance.
- Work proactively with the Credit Control Manager, Partners, and clients to ensure that cash is collected appropriately and in good time.
- There will be an element of travel to the firm’s other offices.
- Support wider business with ongoing strategies.
- Ensure a smooth handover both into and out of the role.
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Synopsis
We are a leading European Intellectual Property law firm providing IP services to clients throughout the world. We are passionate about protecting, defending, enforcing, and commercialising our clients’ IP so that their innovation can thrive and be rewarded.
We are looking for a qualified accountant with the ability to keep the Finance team running smoothly whilst our FD is on maternity leave. We need someone who is collegiate and commercial in their approach, able to lead and develop people, and who shares our passion for excellence in everything we do.
We have offices in Bristol, London, Leeds, Glasgow, and Munich. Although based in Bristol, the successful candidate will need to travel to other European offices. You will need to be a confident self-starter with an ability to think through issues from both a technical and commercial perspective, gain buy-in to solutions, and then work collaboratively to deliver.
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