We are recruiting for an Accounting Team Leader to join our Finance team in Bristol.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to add real value to the firm. By implementing a controls frameworks and standardised processes, you will play a key part in delivering accurate financial data to aid the firm’s profitability strategy and drive change.
You will work within the commercial reporting team to deliver and maintain current month end accounting and ad-hoc reporting.
Your Role
As an Accounting Team Leader, your remit includes:
- Lead, coach and develop the accounting team to deliver high quality accounting processes.
- Oversee the month end close process, troubleshooting issues to ensure a timely completion to a high standard.
- Review monthly management accounts and ensure the general ledger is accurate.
- Developing a new controls framework to minimise risk.
- Lead the production of statutory reporting.
- Manage all financial audits.
- Coordination with other finance teams to drive process improvement.
- Be an accounting knowledge leader.
Your Skills and Experience
- Be a qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA), or equivalent.
- Have strong experience in an accounting role.
- Proven experience managing a team of varying abilities.
- Demonstrate experience of leading finance change and creating a culture of continuous improvement.
- Be able to think laterally to solve problems within an evolving finance team
- Strong communication skills.
- Comfortable working under own initiative, whilst prioritising tasks to work to deadlines.
- Possess a natural affinity for technology, process thinking, and process improvement.
- Preferably have knowledge of the Microsoft Power apps, and a strong desire to learn.
Your Team
Our Finance and Procurement team are key to strategic decision making, providing key management information, data and analysis to ensure our business runs smoothly and that we comply with all our statutory and regulatory obligations. To do this effectively, these teams take responsibility for billing, payments, credit control, purchasing, client accounting, commercial business partnering, reporting, sourcing, buying and more.
About TLT
Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.
We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. This marks the third year in a row the firm has taken away this accolade in industry awards - having previously been named Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022.
Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.
Our Benefits
We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.
At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people. We’re happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role.
TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLT.com
