Russell-Cooke is a top 100 UK law firm based in Putney and winner of Law Firm of the Year 2025. We have around 250 lawyers working for a mix of commercial, not-for-profit and private clients and are seeking a highly capable qualified accountant to join our finance team on a 12-month fixed term basis to provide illness cover.
The role will support the 3 financial controllers with operational, reporting and managerial duties. The successful candidate will be joining a well-established and highly regarded Accounts team, with a headcount of 15, known across the firm for its professionalism, reliability, and collaborative approach. Many team members have been with the firm for a number of years, contributing to a stable and supportive working environment.
The firm itself is recognised for its positive culture and commitment to work-life balance, having recently won the Work Life Balance Award at the 2025 Legal Cheek Awards. We pride ourselves on fostering a workplace that values autonomy, trust, and wellbeing—benefiting both our people and our clients.

The ideal candidate:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• MS Excel to a high level
• Highly IT literate and able to learn new systems quickly
• Confident communicator, able to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels

Adaptable, proactive and able to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

The purpose of this role it to provide additional resilience and capacity for the firm’s accounts team, by delivering a varied output. The established members of the team are friendly and highly supportive, and whilst this role would suit a self-starter who would prefer not to be micro-managed, the successful candidate will be well supported by peers who are experts in their fields.
Although this is a 12-month contract, we are also happy to invest in the successful candidate and with training on systems (such as SQL scripting) and/or project management.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Change & Project Delivery
• Lead or support finance-related change projects, including system implementation, upgrades, migrations, and integrations.
• Conduct risk assessments and testing for system changes.
• Provide stakeholder communications, training and documentation for new processes and systems.
• Reporting & Data Integrity
• Produce ad hoc financial reports and support the development of reporting tools.
• Ensure accuracy and consistency of financial data across systems.
• Collaborate with finance teams to improve data flows and reporting capabilities.
• Maintain and enhance financial systems.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement.
• Ensure systems are compliant with regulatory and internal control requirements.
• Act as liaison between Accounts, IT, other internal users, and external vendors.
• Month end processes
• VAT returns and queries
• Authorisation of payments
• Partnership administration
• Internal auditing
• Ad hoc requests for assistance with client matters