Management Accountant

About us

Legal 500 was founded by John Pritchard in 1987 as the original clients’ guide to law firms, the first of its kind. It is now a data-driven, AI-optimised research platform which benchmarks, informs and connects providers and users of legal services in over 100 countries worldwide.

Our research and data are trusted and relied upon by corporate clients globally as an essential part of the process, both of instructing law firms with new mandates, and when reviewing existing mandates or panels.

We exist to empower both buyers and sellers in the international legal marketplace to make better decisions and have improved outcomes for their organisations. This is achieved by leveraging a trusted, comprehensive research process with a unique, vast, proprietary and constantly updated set of client-supplied data, unrivalled in the market.

On the supply side of the legal market, every year Legal 500’s team of over 150 researchers, technologists, data analysts, journalists and content specialists collate and review 60,000+ data-submissions from law firms and conduct interviews with thousands of leading law firm partners. On the demand side, Legal 500 analyses confidential data from 300,000+ commercial law firm clients to benchmark law firms and lawyers by practice area; industry; jurisdiction; as well as by proprietary client satisfaction metrics, NPS®, and other qualitative and quantitative criteria.

Legal 500 is the only source of this depth of global research and data on law firms, lawyers and their clients.

Job Purpose

We're expecting our new Management Account to provide accurate and timely financial reporting, analysis, and insight to support decision-making (and also supports some elements of the control framework). Fundamentally the role is a value-add role that contributes to driving Legal 500's commercial performance.

Job Responsibilities

• Publish, review, understand financial information to budget holders or other decision makers
• Post accounting journals such as accruals, prepayments and re-allocation journals as part of month end
• Key role in the budget and forecast process.
• Profitability and financial performance reporting for internal customers.
• Variance analysis
• Support the monthly board pack preparation.
• Work on analysis and reporting of non-financial information (business metrics, KPIs etc)
• Project work, ad-ahoc analysis.
• Support audit and financial controls/processes

What we're looking for

• Analytical mindset and approach
• Strong communication skills with the ability to business partner
• Experience preparing end-to-end management accounts
• Excellent Excel data analysis and manipulation skills (Vlookups, Sumifs, pivots, charts)
• Demonstrable comprehension of Accounting principles (qualifications desirable)

Other information

3 days per week in our office, 2 days remote

Office is based on Fleet Street, Central London