Partnerships Accountant

at  Montagu Evans

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATION:

Full accounting qualification (preferably ACA or ACCA)
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Experience of working in a partnership or professional services environment
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Advanced Excel skills preferred including pivot tables and advanced formulae (SUMIF, VLOOKUP)
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Excellent analytical skills
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Strong attention to detail
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Strong communication skills– both written and verbal
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Experience of working with senior partners or managers
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- Experience of dealing with external auditors would be helpful but not essential

COMPANY, TEAM & ROLE OVERVIEW:

Montagu Evans is an independent, market leading property consultancy. Headquartered in London with offices in Scotland and Manchester. Our work encompasses planning and development, property management, specialist valuations and transactions across the United Kingdom.
We’re a group of people that are excellent individually and exceptional together. We’re people that care about people, not just bricks and mortar. We care about our legacy, we create spaces that people use to live, work, communicate and connect.
We’re a partnership and the people who run the business are empowered to create their own teams to exceed our client’s requests. This highly flexible and collaborative approach, tailoring the talent to the complexity of the work, has enabled us to develop an exceptional business that has spanned nearly a century.
We encourage an honest and straight forward approach to our work and relationships. We embrace individuality, whilst relying on working together and never accepting the status quo.
We give everyone the opportunity to be the best version of themselves. We trust and support each other. We recognise that our people are the heart of our success and only by identifying, supporting and promoting them will we be able to provide continued outstanding client service.
Together we are Montagu Evans.
Montagu Evans is committed to maintaining an inclusive work environment. One that embraces all and everyone.
Read more here https://www.montagu-evans.co.uk/about/diversity/
The purpose of the finance team is to be at the heart of helping the business improve. Over the last few years, the firm has invested in the function, adding skills to allow finance to work more closely with the business, supporting strategic decision making whilst protecting the partners (who are the owners of the business) from risk through the implementation of a stronger control environment.
The Finance team are an integral part of the firm and the Central Management Team. The team is responsible for managing the firm’s finance function in all areas: from credit control, to accounts payable, expenses, management accounting, billing, payroll, cash flow, budgeting and forecasting, as well as business partnering with the firm’s fee earning departments.
We work with all areas of the firm and, in conjunction with other teams within the Central Management Team function, support and advise the firm’s partners, departments and fee earners. Finance also provides financial information on a regular basis to the executive committee and to the salary and remuneration committees.
The team currently consists of: a Finance Director, Financial Controller, 2 Business Partners, Credit Manager, Deputy Credit Manager, Credit Controller, Senior Management Accountant, Assistant Management Accountant, Partnership Financial Accountant, AP manager and Expenses Administrator.

MAIN DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Reporting to the Financial Controller, the Partnership Financial Accountant plays a key role in the firm in ensuring the smooth and efficient administration of all matters relating to Partners Accounting. We are looking for an individual who has experience in managing similar processes and is comfortable dealing directly with Partners and the firms external advisors (e.g. Banks and Tax advisors).
The role is an excellent opportunity for an individual who is a self-starter and passionate about collaborating with others, whilst taking ownership to identify and deliver process improvements. The successful individual will be front and centre in terms of dealing directly with the owners of the business so needs a can-do attitude and a capability to deliver accurate and reliable work.
The individual will also need to have strong interpersonal and communication skills given the stakeholders with whom they will be interacting with on a daily basis.