This 12 month fixed term contract offers an exciting opportunity for a qualified finance professional to take a senior lead role within the Global Financial Reporting team, supporting the delivery of high quality financial reporting for the EMEA region. Working closely with the Head of Finance EMEA and colleagues across Finance, the role will oversee regional management accounts, coordinate EMEA audit deliverables, strengthen reporting processes and provide review, supervision and coaching to Assistant Management Accountants to support both delivery and development. The role will also provide insightful analysis to support commercial decision-making across a complex international business.

Team

Kennedys Finance supports the firm globally through the delivery of timely, accurate financial and management information, commercial insight, reporting solutions and operational support that underpin decision-making across the business. The team plays a key role in enabling sustainable growth, improving performance and maintaining the high standard of service provided to the firm's internal and external clients.

Our Finance function includes Financial Reporting, Tax, Treasury, Business Intelligence, Business Partnering and Analytics, Procurement, Finance Systems and Financial Operations, working in partnership with practice and business services leaders across the firm's international network.

Global Financial Reporting Team

The Global Financial Reporting team manages the firm's global financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting requirements. Internally, we provide the firm with relevant and insightful analysis on profitability and other metrics and timely budget and forecast tracking to support business decisions. Externally, we ensure the firm meets its reporting, audit and compliance requirements.

• Trusted business partner to the fee earning and business support side of the business, providing regular and timely information and analysis to leadership helping drive business strategy and enable informed decisions
• Cost control supported by regular tracking, analysis and partnering
• Intercompany management enables the global business to operate across jurisdictions
• Compliance with local financial and statutory regulations minimises legal, financial and reputational risk
• Accurate budgeting and forecasting provides the business with a roadmap it can be confident in

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the delivery of monthly financial reporting for the EMEA region, ensuring management accounts are accurate, timely and supported by robust review and analysis.
• Oversee and review the preparation of regional profit and loss accounts, balance sheets and intercompany reporting by Assistant Management Accountants and other members of the team, providing clear supervision, guidance and constructive challenge where required.
• Coordinate the delivery of EMEA office audits, liaising with local audit teams and internal stakeholders to ensure audit leads, information requests and deliverables are completed accurately and on time.
• Act as a key finance contact for the Head of Finance EMEA, supporting business partnering activity through clear reporting, insight and commentary on regional performance.
• Support the preparation of EMEA reporting packs and analysis for regional leadership, helping to explain key movements, risks, opportunities and trends.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen processes, controls and consistency in regional management reporting, working collaboratively with colleagues across Finance

Required experience

• Qualified accountant, or equivalent, with a recognised professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
• Strong experience in financial reporting, management accounting or audit coordination, ideally gained in a complex, multi-entity or international environment.
• Confident understanding of profit and loss reporting, balance sheet management, reconciliations, journals, accruals, prepayments, intercompany accounting and audit deliverables.
• Experience reviewing and supervising work prepared by finance colleagues, with the ability to provide constructive challenge, coaching and support to ensure high quality outputs and help develop technical understanding.
• Comfortable working with senior stakeholders, local finance teams and audit contacts, translating financial information into clear, practical insight for business decision-making.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment.
• Previous experience working in the legal industry or a similar professional services environment would be desirable.
• Experience using Elite 3E, or a similar legal finance system, would be desirable.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 3,000 people in 45 offices across 18 countries around the world we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive, distinctive and ambitious. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.