DLA Piper Hiring for Management Accountant, Finance Job at Sheffield, England Full Time

Our Growth. Your Future.

DLA Piper is a global law firm, an organically growing organisation, with great ambitions, defined strategy and wonderful culture. We’ve created a culture that encourages and values individual choice and opportunity, combined with inclusion and teamwork. Bring your ambition, initiative and entrepreneurial mindset to a global business that’s redefining the expectations of a law firm.

Our established central finance team is currently looking to expand and bring on board a Management Accountant who will join the team for a period of 12 months. The role will mostly support the Management Accounts, however will also have exposure to the Accounting team and help them support the entire firm. The ideal individual should be enthusiastic about financial management reporting and accounts, have adequate financial qualification/accreditation and experience which would provide transferable skillset to the role.

Join us at an exciting time, be a part of a well-established team which will support your growth and ambition. Apply!

MAIN DUTIES AND RESONSIBILITIES

• Preparation of UK/global month end provisions and posting of month end journals (including liaison with the Global Service Centre in Poland)
• Preparation of various monthly management reports including global director reports, headcount reports, OMP, property and workplace reports and other monthly reports
• Investigation of UK/global monthly variances for your area of responsibly
• Reconciliation of balance sheet/inter-company accounts, investigation into variances and resolution as required
• Assisting the management accountants in producing audit schedules and statutory accounts
• Liaising with the external auditors for your area of responsibility in the annual audit process, ensuring that statutory reporting requirements are met
• Preparation of information/reporting for statutory/regulatory purposes e.g. VAT, IPT, Intrastats, National statistics, financial statements
• Be a point of contact in central finance for your area of responsibility including responding to queries and information requests

ABOUT YOU

• Advanced excel skills
• Self-motivated, logical and organised approach to work
• Keen eye for detail
• Agile & proactive
• Qualified / Newly qualified accountant

Desirable Skills:

• Proven track record in data manipulation, with experience in creation of reports.
• Experience of working with BI software such as SAP Business Intelligence solutions
• A working understanding of databases

ABOUT US

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

OUR VALUES

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we care about others, value diversity and act thoughtfully
• Be Collaborative – we give, we share and we join in
• Be Bold – we stand tall and challenge ourselves to think big
• Be Exceptional – we exceed standards and expectations

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

We support anyone with a disability or long term health condition to ensure they have the opportunity to perform at their best. If you have not done so already, please let us know if you require any support so we can make the right adjustments and considerations should they be required.

AGILE WORKING

We know that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That’s why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

PRE-ENGAGEMENT SCREENING

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers.