A highly impressive law firm are looing for a Finance analyst to join their progressive and collaborative commercial team, where you would be working closely with a practice group to provide commercial insight and looking at performance improvement.
Some of your duties in this Finance Analyst role include -
- Compiling and assessing financial data to support complex business requests including, but not limited to, partner and fee earner appraisals, profitability and trend reporting
- Assisting in the preparation of high-quality financial presentations to the business (practice, sector and key client specific) and providing analysis and recommendations as and when required
- Managing the production of routine deliverables required by the Finance Business Partner team, such as the monthly reporting packs, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
- Providing assistance to the Finance Business Partners with the annual budget process and quarterly reforecast exercises
- Providing direct Business Partnering support to regional leads or alternative fee earning teams
- Working with the Finance Leadership Team and outsourced partners to ensure systems and models remain accurate
- Proactively look for ways to improve the efficiency of data generation
- Liaising with the Finance Reporting Team to ensure consistent and accurate information is provided
- Working with the Finance and HR teams (both locally and remotely) to ensure integrity and accuracy of data used by the Finance Business Partner team, e.g., headcount, fee earner cost rates
- Annual planning and budgeting
- Quarterly reforecasting
- Developing longer term 3-5 year plans with the relevant Partners and Senior Finance Business Partner
- Longer term strategic reviews of offices and teams to support profitable growth
- Enabling the practice group and regions to achieve their objectives, make decisions and plan appropriately through the effective understanding and application of financial analysis.
- Monitoring performance against long-term strategic and short-term operational plans to achieve agreed financial targets
To be successful in this Financial Analyst role you must have -
- Experience of a similar analytical role, ideally in a law firm or other professional services firm
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- The ability to remain calm and focussed under pressure
- Attention to detail as well as an ability to see the bigger picture which considers any cross-business implications
- A collaborative team-player who is transparent and has a collaborative, supportive approach
- Advanced MS Office suite user (particularly Excel)
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