Finance Analyst

Our Client is a leading global law firm with a diverse range of clients, including FTSE and AIM companies. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, operating with over 2,500 lawyers across six continents. People are key to their success, which is why they seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of their global practice.

They are now looking to recruit a Finance Analyst. The successful candidate will be ideally be a qualified accountant. The main responsibilities of this role will be to support the Finance Business Partners and Head of Financial Analysis and Reporting with the aim of delivering financial information, analysis and advice that will make a genuine difference to decision making and financial performance.

Responsibilities

• Assist the business partners to become a trusted business partner to the business. It is envisaged that if successful in the role, the candidate would be allocated responsibility to work directly with partners and managers of the practice groups.

• Review/Production of monthly management reports covering Practice Group and Practice Area performance to ensure that information and interpretation is presented clearly, unambiguously, in a readily comprehensible and appropriate format for the audience and business purpose.

• Perform financial analysis (Key profit drivers, trend analysis, commercial drivers) which includes the writing and delivery of commentaries to management teams and the creation and delivery of PowerPoint presentations to support regular regional or practice group meetings as well as partner conferences as required

• Analyse and interpret large volumes of data to show trends and support business cases (including scenario modelling)

• Provide support to the Head of Financial Analysis and Reporting manager whose role is more reporting focused. This might include involvement in, Quarterly accounts process, Regular monthly management reporting, Calculation of client and partner profitability, Improving our existing reporting across all channels (excel based and online reporting - we work closely with our systems team who maintain our online reporting), Potential involvement in a project to develop reporting dashboards using powerBI (Training will be provided if necessary), Ad hoc analysis

• Work closely with the team to support various annual Firm-wide processes such as: Business planning Budgeting.

• Partner promotion processes including supplying information to support individual partner nominations as well as summaries for the IMC

• Ad-hoc analysis as required covering a wide range of topics and support on various projects.

The Candidate

• The candidate will ideally be a qualified accountant with ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.

• The candidate must demonstrate experience of analytical review, interpretation of trends and delivering results in a deadline driven environment.

• The candidate must be able to deal with managers at a senior level and partners both in and outside the UK when required.

• A very strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and standard excel formulae.

Important Notice

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Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanentvacancy on behalf of one of its clients