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My client is a leading US Top 50 and Global 50 law firm, with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia. They advise multinational companies on public/private enterprises and help emerging companies grow, from critical regulatory and compliance matters to deals, transactions and high-stakes litigation. They are recruiting for a Senior Finance Manager for their City of London office. Are you an experienced finance leader ready to step into a genuinely international role? This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the world's leading global law firms as their Senior Finance Manager, overseeing the firm's non-US accounting and compliance operations across multiple jurisdictions. In this role, you will play a critical part in shaping the firm's financial integrity, leading a team of six skilled accountants based across 3 jurisdictions. You'll work directly with senior stakeholders including the Director of Accounting, US Finance leadership and Office Chairs across Europe and Asia ensuring robust financial reporting, strong controls, and streamlined compliance in a highly dynamic global environment. Responsibilities Lead and develop a global team of six accountants across the US, UK, and Paris, providing coaching, oversight, and structured opportunities for growth. Project manages the team and external consultants to ensure timely compliance with local statutory accounts filings, VAT, income tax, and audit obligations. Supervise the preparation of Financial Statements ensuring compliance with the relevant financial reporting standards (e.g. UK GAAP, tax cash basis). Ensure excellence and standardisation of processes across jurisdictions and teams. Review financial statement audit support for accuracy and completeness. Review VAT filings in local jurisdictions and drive improved processes and controls. Manage relationships with external auditors and accounting services firms, ensuring responsive communication, efficient work, and high-quality deliverables. Partner with the UK Finance Director, Partners and Office Chairs on monthly office reporting and ad hoc requests. Maintain strong monthly close processes, including expense coding review, balance sheet reconciliations, reconciliations between different accounting books and currencies. Ensure compliance with SARs and Money Laundering Regulations and manage annual SARs audit, liaising with the auditors and the office's Compliance partner as needed. Develop and mentor team members, foster technical excellence, strong management capability, and opportunities for stretch assignments. Collaborate with the Director of Accounting to identify and implement processes and control improvements across finance operations. Monitor and interpret regulatory changes (e.g., VAT, e-invoicing, GAAP, SARs), ensuring timely adoption and compliance. Oversee additional statutory reporting obligations, including Surveys, PSA returns, and collaborator payments. Provide training and onboarding support for new team members. Candidate Profile Deep knowledge of a GAAP accounting framework (e.g. UK GAAP, IFRS, US GAAP). Excellent knowledge of UK VAT return preparation and filing processes. Awareness of income tax and payroll tax considerations across multiple jurisdictions. Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to deliver high-quality output independently. Strong interpersonal and team-building skills; ability to collaborate effectively with staff at all levels. Self-starter: ability to back into solutions, finding the solution and passing that knowledge to the team. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex information clearly and diplomatically. High level of customer service in a fast-paced environment. Ability to manage high volumes of work while maintaining accuracy and strong attention to detail. Proficiency in MS Office. Strong knowledge of Excel preferred. Preferable: knowledge of the Solicitors Accounts Rules. Chartered Accountant qualification (e.g. ACA) or similar technical accountancy certification. 10+ years' experience working in accountancy, with at least two years managing accountants. Experience in both audit/accountancy practice and in-house accounting, preferably within a professional service environment. Preferable: experience with LLP accounting (ideally Law Firms). Nice to have experience with accounting software 'Aderant' and Accounts Payable software 'Chrome River'. Important Notice It is Career Legal's policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful, and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you. Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within a thriving business support team for a Secretary (Patents). Key Responsibilities As part of a friendly and hard-working secretarial team, you will provide high-quality support to busy fee-earners. Your duties will include: Preparing and issuing invoices Drafting correspondence and preparing documents Communicating with clients, agents and external contacts Updating internal systems and databases, including Inprotech Providing tailored support to meet specific client requirements, including using client portals/document management systems Managing records and general administrative tasks About You At least 12 months' secretarial experience within an Intellectual Property (IP) environment Strong written and verbal communication skills Positive, proactive attitude with the ability to pick up new systems and processes quickly Highly organised, able to prioritise multiple deadlines, and comfortable working on your own initiative Experience with invoicing and/or Inprotech is an advantage What's on Offer A competitive salary Flexible and hybrid working arrangements An attractive benefits package A supportive, collaborative working environment and a welcoming, established team This role offers an excellent opportunity to be part of a high-performing IP support function within a growing business support team.

This corporate law firm is one of the best firms in London. They attract clients that includes some of the worlds most successful businesses and well-known high net worth individuals. They currently have around 400 fee earning staff. They are now looking to hire Revenue Manager. The Senior Revenue Manager is responsible for overseeing all revenue management and credit control activities. They will be an integral member of the finance management team and will act as a business partner to the firm's Partners and fee earners with the principle objective of optimising revenue and speed of cash collection. Responsibilities Identify and develop solutions for service enhancements aimed at reducing lockup days, and establish clear targets against which progress towards this objective can be measured; Have experience in understanding of rate structures and alternative billing arrangements; Play a leading role within the wider finance management team, contributing to strategy development, driving operational decision-making, and influencing key discussions across the function; and Meet regularly with the Managing Partner to provide insights and analysis on working capital management. Provide strong leadership and have full responsibility for development and performance of the Finance Revenue team and ensure targets for lockup day reductions are devolved to the team; Prepare monthly billing and collections forecasts and ensure the firm meets these targets; Responsible for all activities related to WIP management, client billing and collections and agree controls and metrics to balance workload across the team and to demonstrate process effectiveness; Ensure the Finance Revenue team are meeting and participating in wider finance department objectives, initiatives and upholding best practice. Maintain good relationships with Partners, especially practice area heads and ensure each practice area is well supported by a dedicated member from the Finance Revenue team. Agree enhanced internal processes to support any complex billing needs for our top clients; and Develop relationships with client Partners (internally) and clients' finance professionals (externally) to ensure speedier processing of bills and collection of money from our Top 30 clients. Candidate Profile Significant experience in management and operational role; Promotes best practice and procedures; Analytical with good attention to detail and prioritisation skills; Assists others with problem solving by breaking them down and sharing business insights; and Ensures that the technical advice is given with a commercial approach. Highly developed leadership and management skills, with the ability to create a sense of togetherness and encourages the contribution of ideas to improve the policies, processes and the working environment; Adapts management style to the needs of the team; Assesses demands and organises resources in order to meet the needs of the business; and Collaborative and solution orientated, with a can-do attitude. Important Notice It is Career Legal's policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you. Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanent vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.