Management Accountant - Gepp Solicitors, Chelmsford - Chelmsford
(2025-09)
Specialist in providing Legal and Financial Services
- Preparing an annual income and expenses budget in consultation with the MP and COO
- Preparing a monthly financial performance report with variances against budget and previous year
- Preparing ad hoc reports on aspects of the business to support business decisions
- Preparing regular updated cashflow forecasts
- Preparing monthly and annual management accounts
- Assisting the firm's external accountants with the preparation of statutory accounts
- Assisting with Companies House filings
- Processing client and office account receipts and payments, in accordance with the Solicitors Accounts Rules
- Handling supplier invoices and payments
- Bank account reconciliations and three-way check
- Accurate and timely closure at each month end
- VAT returns
- Handling Equity Partner drawings
- Managing the firm's payroll in conjunction with HR personnel
- Work on the Solicitors Accounts Rules audit
- Monitoring cashflow regularly and alerting the firm's management to issues and concerns
- Credit control responsibilities, including liaison with clients over unpaid debts
- Handling expense claims, credit card purchases and petty cash
- Other miscellaneous accounting tasks and processes as required
Management Accountant - Birkett Long LLP, Chelmsford - Chelmsford
(2013-11 - 2025-06)
Specialist in providing Legal and Financial Services
- Provide timely management information to Finance Director on month end departmental reports covering WIP, Bad debts, Fee and Chargeable hours report and Debtors Analysis
- Assist in providing financial services such as accounts preparation, budgeting and business planning to the firm including cash flow
- Prepare Monthly Management Accounts, Accruals and Prepayments schedule
- Generate Month end and quarterly reporting covering firm's KPI's and Gross profit and Net Profitability
- Draft Expenditure and Fee Budget and Statutory Accounts for the firm incorporating IFRS 102 requirements
- Assist in Payroll and responsible for filing payroll records
- Monitor and control the recordation of fixed assets, assign tag numbers, record acquisitions and disposals in the accounting system, and periodically balance the fixed asset ledger with general ledger
- Calculate depreciation for all fixed assets, review and update detailed schedule of fixed asset and accumulated depreciation
- Prepare audit schedule related to fixed asset and assist the auditors in their inquiries
- Recommend management with any updates to accounting policies
- Track company expenditure for fixed assets in comparison to the capital budget and conduct periodic review of intangible assets
- Responsible for physical inventory count of fixed assets and investigate the potential obsolescence of fixed assets
- Responsible for filing Insurance applications
- Assisted FD in box accounting on acquisition of the company
Accounts Assistant - Edutec Accountants, Walthamstow, London - Walthamstow, London
(2011-01 - 2013-09)
Chartered Accountants and AAT training providers
- Prepare statutory accounts for Small Businesses, Charities, Non-profit organisations
- Management of Purchase and Sales Ledgers, Credit Control Report
- Filing of VAT returns and responsible for timely submission of accurate returns and payments
- Deal with accounting and basic tax requirements for a range of sole traders, Partnership firms and small limited companies
- Reconciliation of bank accounts of the firm
- Drafting year end companies house accounts for clients using Sage line 50
- Process payslips for clients using Sage Payroll
- Assist in AAT computer-based assessments
Accounts Trainee - Luckva Accountancy, East Ham, London - East Ham, London
(2010-01 - 2010-12)
Chartered Accountants
- Maintaining cash book and posting journals on nominal ledger
- Assist in filing VAT returns for wide range of businesses
- Filing stationary and managing petty cash
- Assist in preparing form 60, P45 and P35 for clients
