Management Accountant

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Slater and Gordon is an independent Legal Services firm in the UK. It is one of the UK’s largest providers of consumer legal services, with a number of offices across England, Scotland and Wales.

The company’s mission is to make it easy for people in the UK to access quality legal services at a fair price and the firm prides itself on delivering highly professional, affordable and fiercely independent legal services.

Following a turbulent few years the company was acquired in 2017 by new owners led by Anchorage Capital.  It is going through an exciting period of transformation and change. A new executive leadership team has been appointed including of a number of highly experienced individuals including David Whitmore, CEO and Alison Wilford CFO. In May 2018 Slater and Gordon announced plans to invest £30m in technology and digitising legal services in a move to strengthen its position as the UK’s number one provider of consumer law expertise and increase people’s access to justice.

 

Role responsibilities

• Supporting in the provision of timely and accurate monthly reporting with insight, KPIs and variance analysis against budget and forecast
• Supporting in the creation of Budget and Forecast data and models
• Supporting in the provision of insight and analytics to support commercial decision making
• Project Accounting including Forecasting, Spend Tracking (including quantitative and qualitative metrics)
• Support in creation of business cases for proposed new strategies and projects
• Support in the creation of new processes and reports
• Improving governance and control around financial reviews and decision making relating to spend
• Supporting Shared Service areas on detailed analysis
• Ad hoc exercises where analysis of large datasets and a commercial mindset is required
• Supporting in the implementation of IFRS16 and the ongoing tracking of associated lease accounting

 

Experience and competencies required for the role

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified with experience in shared services desirable
• Strong analytical and data manipulation skills
• Experience in a fast-paced and changing environment
• Experience in reporting and tracking performance across a number of metrics
• Experience with IFRS16 desirable