Job Description

You will be a true partner, building close relationships with senior management in order to gain a strong fundamental understanding of operations, analyzing and modelling to identify opportunities, working with management to build plans to capitalize on these, and being a key part of delivery within a cross functional team.

• Supports team leaders in presenting profit improvement plans and analysis to the Operations Board were required
• Builds financial literacy of fee earners through effective coaching where required
• Combines financial analysis with a strong knowledge of the business to create clarity on financial performance which drives profitability improving action
• Challenges and engages senior stakeholders to deliver performance against budget and performance improvement plans
• Plays an active part in assigned fee-earning group’s management meetings
• Ad hoc reporting and analysis
• Takes a lead on the creation of pricing proposals, including adopting novel solutions to meet client needs while delivering improved profitability for the firm
• Facilitates finance improvement projects where there is an impact in assigned fee-earning group
• Works with the Commercial Reporting team to drive improvements to standardized analysis which reduce requirements for ad hoc analysis
• Support finance process, reporting, and analysis improvement projects
• Provides direct feedback from the fee-earning groups on finance operations enabling improvement

In return we will invest in you. We want you to be successful. You will receive a bespoke, on-going training programme to ensure you develop your commercial and technical skills to allow you to deliver the varied workload to a high standard. As a member of our Support team you will be a vital part of our continued success. You will be recognized for your hard work and support.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

You will be able to demonstrate a similar supportive, flexible and driven ethos and will have accumulated the following experience and skills:

• Be a Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA) with 3 years PQE, or equivalent 
• Have a broad base of knowledge gained across the finance function, including strong experience in an FP&A or business partnering role
• Demonstrate experience of driving profitability improvement by influencing senior stakeholder’s business decisions and working cross functionally
• Demonstrate strong experience of building relationships built on mutual trust with board level stakeholders
• Demonstrate very high proficiency in financial modelling
• Have experience of creating B2B pricing proposals
• Demonstrate working knowledge and practical experience of costing
• Have experience working in a cross functional project environment
• Preferably have knowledge of the Microsoft Power apps
• Preferably have experience of presenting to senior stakeholder or board level meetings