Description

Financial Accountant

We are a tech-enabled consultancy known for our market leading advice in pensions, investment and insurance, and we strive to help create a financially better future for our society. Our love of data, technology and posing solutions to the difficult questions of today, has taken us into newer areas. We now have a reputation for excellence in energy transition, health analytics and sport analytics.

We are looking for a practice trained Financial Accountant to join our Finance team. This is a new role due to the continued growth of LCP. Our growth in number of locations, businesses, products and size by both organic and acquisition has meant increasing complexity of our business structure and reporting requirements. You will be working alongside a high performing Finance team with several qualified accountants, as well as subject matter experts and trainees. You will be organised, producing work to a high standard, able to work independently and articulate explanations to management and teams members.

What will you be doing?

• Evolving and developing our year end consolidation process for our increasingly complex corporate structure
• Evolving monthly/quarterly consolidation of management accounts for use at ExCo and Board
• Partnership accounting - dependent on experience, input and review of drawings, current account statements, profit distribution and tax retention and POA regime
• Corporate member reporting development
• Investment accounting, including amortization of goodwill and impairment/re-valuation calculation
• Tax compliance: dependent on experience there are a number of potential areas for involvement:
  • Partnership tax analysis and return
  • VAT compliance
  • PSA rules and analysis
  • International tax liabilities
• Development of international tax reporting framework
• International year end tax returns
• Involvement in take on of acquisitions
• Develop strong relationships with Partners/Billing Managers, other stakeholders around the business and the Finance Team
• Support the write off process by reviewing balances, preparing recommendations and participating in meetings with billing managers as required
• Other activities within the team as required

What skills, qualities and experience are we looking for?

• You would have likely qualified in practice and had experience auditing LLPs
• Strong attention to detail
• Logical structure to how you present your work
• Ability to produce concise easy to follow process notes
• Wide understanding and experience producing Financial Accounts in a complex LLP / corporate structure
• Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA etc)
• Experience in Professional Services and ideally LLP specifically
• Specialisation in Financial Accounts preparation
• Able to produce work that is well laid out and with a methodology that is easy to follow, thus allowing our "do, check review" process

What's in it for you?

Take a look at our Glassdoor and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you:

• Hybrid working (varies by role and department)
• professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women's networks

For your family:

• Life assurance, income protection, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health:

• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
• Eye care vouchers
• Digital GP services

For your wealth:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• High street discounts

For others:

• Volunteering opportunities

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - accessibilityaware@lcp.uk.com to discuss how we can support you with your application.

Recruitment agencies

LCP operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for recruitment agencies which is reviewed annually. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies who are not part of our current PSL. LCP only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place, and the agency has been instructed by a member of our recruitment team to supply CVs via the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for a legitimate, open vacancy. If this process is not adhered to, LCP reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and have discussions with them without paying any agency fees. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to any employee or Partner at LCP.