Partnership Accountant

About WithersA law firm focused on people, performance, and collaboration.

For the past 130 years, we have supported some of the world’s most remarkable people and organizations at defining moments in their lives. 40% of our business comes from Europe, 40% from the US and 20% from Asia and we are one profit sharing partnership globally.

We are united in our commitment to integrity, quality and collaboration. We have a culture of high performance and deliver excellent service consistently across the firm. We provide tailored solutions built on trust and partner with our clients to achieve their goals.

Many of our clients are shaping the future and creating solutions to tackle some of the world’s most difficult problems. It makes for a fascinating and challenging practice.

Our role is to get to know each individual client, find out where they want to be, and help them to get there – whether they are building a business, buying a home or protecting and defending their interests.

To meet their unique needs we are exceptionally collaborative, working together across teams and time zones. And we are agile – focusing on strategy rather than rigid ideas and traditional hierarchy.

Join us to be part of a team that is always looking to the future. Where initiative, big ideas and bold moves are always encouraged. Where you can truly be yourself.

What are we looking for?

We are looking to appoint a Partnership Accountant to take day-to-day ownership of the firm’s partner accounting processes in a newly created role within the Partnership and Tax team. Reporting to the Group Finance Manager, this role will provide dedicated, specialist support for a critical area of financial operations, helping to strengthen the accuracy, timeliness and transparency of partner-related financial information.

The Partnership Accountant will play an important role in maintaining accurate partner records, preparing reconciliations, posting partner-related journals, supporting profit distribution processes and producing clear partner reporting. The role will also support performance-based commission calculations and related payments, together with partner lifecycle events such as joiners, leavers and retirements.

The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with strong technical accounting skills, excellent attention to detail and experience working in a partnership, professional services or similarly complex environment. They will be comfortable handling sensitive financial information, building robust workbooks and reconciliations, and communicating clearly with Finance colleagues, partners and senior stakeholders. Areas of focus and responsibilities

Take ownership of the day-to-day partner accounting process, ensuring partner-related financial records are accurate, complete and appropriately supported.

Partner payments

Prepare the global annual partner compensation model and individual partner statements, including profit allocations, drawings, reserves, capital movements and other partner-related balances.

Provide instructions to our outsourced payroll provider to support monthly draw payments.

Prepare quarterly profit distribution schedules and associated payment instructions.

Prepare annual budget cash flows for partner drawings, profit distributions and partner capital movements in conjunction with the wider tax team.

Prepare partner leaving statements and support the financial aspects of partner joiners, leavers, retirements and other lifecycle events.

Accounting Records and Reconciliation Develop and maintain a robust reconciliation process to manage partner capital, current account, drawings, profit distribution and related balance sheet accounts on a regular basis (together with the bottom half of the balance sheet…