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About the Role

Fox Williams offers a unique opportunity to advance your career in a personable, progressive, and entrepreneurial environment. We are recognized for our strong culture, investment in our people, high-profile matters, quality of work, and solving complex client issues.

Responsibilities

• Administer partner drawings throughout the year
• Manage annual and interim drawing adjustments
• Process top-up payments and profit distributions
• Maintain pension and tax information used in calculations
• Provide remuneration modelling and analysis
• Support partner scoring and remuneration reviews
• Prepare decision-support information and reports
• Liaise with external tax advisers
• Manage partner tax return and payment processes
• Forecast future payments on account and tax liabilities
• Administer partner capital and loan arrangements
• Monitor capital adequacy requirements
• Produce annual current account reporting and resolve queries
• Maintain accurate partner accounting records
• Work with Cashiering to ensure accurate payment processing
• Ensure transactions are reconciled and appropriately recorded
• Act as the primary contact for partner financial enquiries
• Support mortgage, loan, and financial reference requests
• Provide guidance on taxation, capital, drawings, and partnership processes

Requirements

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent professional qualification
• Experience in partnership accounting, professional services, or legal finance
• Strong understanding of UK partnership and personal taxation
• Previous experience in the legal sector or professional services firm is advantageous
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills
• Strong communication skills, particularly when explaining finance terms with non-finance staff
• An ability to express oneself both orally and in writing in a clear and constructive way
• A willingness to ask questions, listen to others’ views and accept advice
• A willingness to contribute ideas and seek improvements
• Self-motivation and an ability to organise own work with supervision
• Ability to work well under pressure and cope effectively in demanding circumstances
• Good time management, adopting a flexible approach to work and a willingness to work overtime when the needs of clients or the firm so dictate
• Persistence and commitment to completing tasks and objectives
• Paying attention to detail and quality of work
• A commitment to improving working practices and supporting the firm’s plans and policies
• An ability to build and maintain working relationships with others and is seen as ‘approachable’
• An ability to work effectively as a part of a team
• Sound judgement and good decision making when dealing with problems, including looking for solutions to new problems
• Knowing when to seek guidance or further input from others before taking action

Skills

• Advanced Excel
• Financial modelling
• Partnership accounting
• Professional services accounting
• Legal finance
• UK partnership taxation
• Personal taxation
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Problem-solving

Education Level

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent professional qualification

About the Company

• Fox Williams offers a personable, progressive, and entrepreneurial environment.
• Our people and culture are important to us and central to everything we do.
• We continually strive to create and maintain a friendly and supportive environment for our staff.
• We are recognised for our strong culture and investing in our people.
• We are equally well known for our high-profile matters, quality of our work and solving our clients’ most complex legal issues.

Equal Opportunity

• Fox Williams is committed to creating a more diverse workforce which better reflects the demographics of society and the broad range of clients for whom we work.
• We collaborate with our recruitment agents to seek a broad talent pool for all our roles.
• We are passionate about working in an inclusive environment and successful candidates will be required to uphold this.