Accountant, Shanghai (7-months)
Accountant, Shanghai (7-months)
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22-08-2025
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Job Description
Purpose
- Looking after daily finance operation of Shanghai Zhao Sheng Law Firm and its joint operation with Linklaters set up in SFTZ;
- To work with finance advisor closely to support day to day business management of the two firms (Zhao Sheng and Linklaters Shanghai).
Key Dimensions
- Shanghai Zhao Sheng Law firm and Linklaters Shanghai representative office: total annual income of approx. CNY200M (CY20); and currently approx. 80 fee earners and business staff.
- Work very closely and directly with partners lawyers secretaries and other business functions of these two offices on all financial related aspects.
- Co-ordinate with two shared service centres based in Warsaw and Singapore on AP and billing processing respectively.
Key responsibilities and challenges
Financial Operation Management
- To manage finance daily operation of Zhao Sheng law firm including general ledger accounts payable banking related matters staff reimbursement payroll etc.
- Answering queries from internal and external stakeholders for finance related queries.
- Monitoring and ensuring the internal control procedures are followed by people in the office and helping to establish the good financial behaviour.
Statutory Financial Reporting
- Work closely with finance advisor to regularly review the accounting books of the law firm to ensure the accuracy of the accounting records and ensure all accounting treatments are compliant to firm policies and local statutory requirements;
- Prepare monthly quarterly and annual tax filing for the firm;
- Support local statutory reporting and annual audit process;
- Prepare other reports and statistics required by Bureau of Justice Tax office and other government offices.
Revenue Control
- Support on Matter Management processes throughout the matter cycle which includes but not limited to: -
- Assist in pricing and pitches;
- Have regular meeting with designated partners and matter managers to go through WIP and debtor status highlight any possible issues;
- Support the partner and matter managers to manage certain matters by providing regular fee update and monitoring resource allocation;
- Supervise the billing process answer peoples billing related queries (which will also cover tax ebilling etc.) support the coordination between the billing shared service centre and the local office to ensure the bill is issued smoothly and being consistent to firm policies SRA rules and client fee deals;Follow up with the fee earn
- ers and the client after the bill is issued until the receipt;
- Perform profitability and other analysis on the matter
Characteristics Skills & Experience required:
Location: Shanghai
Character
- Solid accounting knowledge;
- Being responsible easy-going willing to learn;
- Attend to details and being able to work independently;
- Customer orientated attitude essential.
- Being enthusiastic with good communication skill
- Team player and committed to provide quality performance
- Mature and confident personality (desirable)
- Culturally sensitive and experience in dealing with overseas offices (desirable)
Education / Qualification
- Degree in Accounting or related major.
Languages
- Fluent in both oral and written English
Practical experience
- Minimum 2 years experience in finance roles.
- Experience in Professional service industry (desirable)
Technology / Office skills
- Solid Excel and other office skills
- SAP Knowledge (desirable)
- Yonyou or other local accounting software (desirable)
Technical Skills:
This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. As such the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.
Employment Type
Full Time
Key Skills
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