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The role: This role represents an opportunity to be part of the Simmons & Simmons Financial Markets (FM) team. The practice is the biggest and continues to grow significantly. Working as a collaborative member of the FM M&BD team, the FM M&BD Manager works closely with fee earners across the practice and with other members of the M&BD team to advise on and drive the execution of marketing and business development initiatives across the Financial Markets International Practice Groups (FM IPG). Operating as an integral part of M&BD, the successful candidate will have a strong voice in the future planning of the practice group. This role demands both strategic thinking and hands-on delivery - the ability to juggle both is key. This is the perfect opportunity for a skilled and experienced M&BD specialist who wants to be both immersed in the FM practice and active as a valued part of a strong and genuinely international firm. Only solutions-orientated...

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Financial Acccountant to join our Bristol office on a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave. The role is responsible for the support of management accounting; financial compliance and financial control services, including budgeting, reporting, VAT compliance, balance sheet reconciliations and analysis for UK, Luxembourg and Ireland. The role also involves providing analysis and advice to support the Global Business Services Directors. This includes month-end analysis and review, support through the budget process as well as ad-hoc queries and general financial analysis. What will you do: Management Accounting Responsible for the timely preparation of the monthly management accounts for all groups within the UK; Luxembourg and Ireland. The role is responsible for the review of all monthly entries and includes producing detailed transactional and summary reports to send to budget holders. The role is also...

The role: We have an exciting opportunity for a Financial Acccountant to join our Bristol office on a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave. The successful candidate will be responsible for the provision of management accounting; financial compliance and financial control services, including budgeting, reporting, VAT compliance, balance sheet reconciliations and analysis for UK, Luxembourg and Ireland. They role also involves providing commercial analysis and advice to support the Global Business Services Directors. This includes month-end analysis and review, support through the budget process as well as ad-hoc queries and general financial analysis. What will you do: Management Accounting Responsible for the timely preparation of the monthly management accounts for all groups within the UK; Luxembourg and Ireland. The roles are responsible for the review of all monthly entries and includes producing detailed transactional and summary reports to send...

We have two roles in our IT Support team, we are recruiting these initially as 12 month fixed term contracts as they are covering other team members who are on secondments to another IT Team. We expect these roles would go permanent in the next year. The role: The successful candidate will provide IT support to users of Simmons & Simmons IT systems. Working to scheduled but varying shift patterns, the role involves recording, diagnosing, monitoring and resolving problems by using a call management system which provides a high-level audit trail for every call made or taken. The strategy for the IT Support Desks is to adopt a first-time resolution approach from call placement to call resolution. This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding team. What will you do: The support of Simmons and Simmons IT applications and hardware. Provide first line application support (productivity tools and business applications) including: incident & problem...

We are looking for a Team Administrator to join our Bristol office on a 12 month fixed term contract to work within our practice groups. The successful candidate will provide effective and high quality administrative support through delegation from the Secretarial Co-ordinator and Secretaries that appropriately meets the requirements of the team. What will you do: Administrative tasks Day-to-day administrative tasks such as photocopying, scanning and demonstrating the ability to delegate to appropriate department/s when necessary, e.g. for organising large volume printing, photocopying, document production. Assisting with event management including tasks such as RSVP management for events, responding to fee-earner queries about attending delegates using InterAction reporting function. Assisting with updating information on the SharePoint intranet or in managing and maintaining specific pages. Assisting the broader team with routine and ad-hoc...

We have an opening for a Conflicts Analyst to join our Risk Management department in Bristol [though London based candidates wil also be conisdered]. The successful candidate will provide and manage the business acceptance of all new clients and matters which involves providing a conflict checking service to the whole firm, screening new business for sanctions, compliance with anti-money laundering requirements, and communicating with the partnership. To ensure that new client documentation meets compliance requirements. What will you do: Risk management: conflict checking Shared responsibility for providing the conflict checking service to the firm world-wide. Handle conflict checks requests to an agreed standard using Microsoft Dynamics AX, and other databases as required. Assist in maintenance of conflicts database. Maintain related documentation. Use IT skills to search external commercial databases. Ensure that conflict check matters are...

What will you do: Taking ownership for the successful delivery of projects; giving leadership and direction to the team and effectively communicating with stakeholders. Managing assigned projects from inception through to completion; following the portfolio office project management lifecycle and gate review process. Working alongside key stakeholders to develop requirements and agree objectives, benefits, scope, deliverables, milestones and budgets. Building project teams made up of subject matter experts from across the department and the wider firm. Working closely with the portfolio office you will ensure roles and responsibilities are clear and understood and that each work package has a lead. Lead project meetings and communications, ensuring all project team members are aligned, understand the goals of the project and are completing tasks to the agreed project milestones. Ensuring all technical pre-requisites for a project are understood and...

This role is a 12 month fixed term contract covering maternity leave. The role: The role is responsible for delivering an efficient and effective bill processing service, ensuring a high-quality service in day to day work. The role requires accuracy, strict compliance with VAT legislation and adherence to the firm's policies and procedures, in relation to billing, credit notes, time write-offs, transfers, and the maintenance of the firm's financial data. What will you do: Building strong relationships to influence and improve the firm's lock-up cycle: • Delivering draft billing reports to Matter Partners (MPs) and following up on a timely basis to ensure that regular billing patterns are established, and where possible monthly billing cycles, taking care that any special client billing requirements are observed. • Accepting responsibility and taking ownership of minor operational issues, finding practical solutions and escalating problems where appropriate....