Job Description
We're partnering with a leading global law firm to appoint a commercially minded Finance Business Partner. This is a highly visible role, partnering with senior stakeholders to drive financial performance, profitability, and strategic growth across their largest, key practice group.
This is a highly visible role, offering the opportunity to work closely with senior leadership, influencing decision-making and providing valuable commercial insight in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
As a trusted advisor to senior leaders, you will play a key role in analysing financial performance, identifying opportunities for improvement and supporting strategic initiatives. You will help drive commercial decision-making through insightful reporting, forecasting and business partnering.
Key Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with Partners, Divisional and Business Services leaders
- Lead financial performance discussions with divisional leadership teams, translating financial analysis into actionable plans that improve profitability, working capital and sustainable growth
- Attend regular business review meetings, presenting financial performance and identifying opportunities and risks
- Responsible for leading annual planning process and forecasting cycles for specific UK divisions and clients, working with divisional leaders, HR, BD and finance to ensure assumptions, risks and opportunities are clearly understood.
- Produce and analyse key commercial reporting, providing insight on performance, working capital, profitability and financial risks and opportunities.
- Challenge and influence Partners and leaders to improve financial outcomes, balancing commercial, operational and client considerations.
- Partner with Client Relationship Partners and Business Development teams to improve client profitability, pricing outcomes and cross-selling opportunities.
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting, planning and forecasting processes.
About You
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Proven Finance Business Partnering experience within a law firm or professional services environment.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate financial data into actionable insight.
- Experience influencing and partnering with senior stakeholders.
- Advanced Excel skills with exposure to BI/reporting tools such as Power BI.
- Excellent communication, presentation and relationship-building skills.
- Highly analytical, proactive and capable of operating in a fast-moving environment.
What's on Offer?
- Opportunity to join a highly regarded international law firm.
- Exposure to senior leadership and strategic decision-making.
- Collaborative and supportive culture.
- Genuine opportunity to make an impact and influence business performance.
- Excellent career development prospects and long-term progression opportunities.
- Hybrid working arrangement - 3 days in their London office
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