Hybrid
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Commercial Finance Analyst to join an Internationally renowned law Firm.
A world leading and future facing law Firm, is looking fora highly motivated and results driven Commercial Finance Analyst to join a dynamic team of pricing and commercial finance professionals.
This role is dedicated to supporting the entire client relationship team and overseeing the smooth financial management of the firm's biggest and most prestigious client.
Reporting directly into the Client Commercial Finance Manager, you will also have a dotted line into the Client Relationship Partners.
The ideal candidate will have a background in legal or professional services, although other sectors will be considered. Proven, strong financial and analytical skills with an eye for detail,tenacity,self-motivation,exceptional stakeholder relationship skills, and a continuous improvement mindset.
Keyresponsibilities:
- Day-to-dayoversight of all aspects of the client global retainer, including negotiations
- Attending client core-team meetings, taking ownership to record and follow up on action points.
- Reporting on key budget areas,undertaking budget variance analysis,proactively identifying issues, reconciling work in progress reports, client reporting, and other ad hoc reporting and analysis.
- Aggregating, handling, analysing, and providing insights onlarge datasets.
- Collating quarterly billing info from each of the global offices
- Preparing comms for key budget holders, key stakeholders, and the client on budget areas.
- Tracking areas of work, performing regular analysis on profitability, variances, and overall hygiene factors.
- Providing oversight and ownership of all job submissions through the dedicated portal.
- Be the point of contact for portal development engaging with the applications team to fix bugs or make improvements, and function as the face of user support.
Who we are looking for
- Demonstrated interest in analytical roles, would welcome those studying for a professional accountancy qualification.
- Analytical experience from a commercial or professional services environment
- Excellent numeracy and problem-solving skills.
- Excel data modelling and data manipulation skills.
- An eye for presenting finance information to non-finance professionals.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with experience communicating to senior stakeholders.
- Self-motivated and able to work within a team and on own initiative.