Commercial Business Partner

Ambition are supporting an established Law Firm with their recruitment for an experienced Commercial Business Partner for their Bristol office. This new role offers the chance to influence the growing commercial business partnering function and drive profitability and pricing strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

Performance Improvement:

• Build strong relationships with partners to deliver commercial benefits.
• Identify and implement profit improvement plans.
• Support team leaders in presenting plans to the Operations Board.
• Enhance financial literacy of fee earners.
• Drive performance against budget and improvement plans.
• Focus on working capital improvement.
• Participate in management meetings.
• Provide ad hoc reporting and analysis.

Pricing:

• Lead the creation of pricing proposals.
• Present proposals to the pricing governance board.
• Improve pricing practices through lessons learnt.

Finance Operations:

• Create monthly performance analysis for board reporting.
• Act as the main Finance contact for the assigned group.
• Facilitate finance improvement projects.
• Improve standardised analysis and reduce ad hoc requirements.
• Manage budgeting and reforecasting processes.

Skills and Experience:

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)
• Strong experience in FP&A or business partnering roles.
• Proven ability to drive profitability improvement.
• Excellent relationship-building skills with senior stakeholders.
• High proficiency in financial modelling.
• Experience in creating B2B pricing proposals.
• Practical experience in costing.
• Cross-functional project experience.
• Preferably knowledgeable in Microsoft Power apps.
• Experience presenting to senior stakeholders.

This is a really exciting opportunity for an experienced candidate, looking to join a team which has been instrumental in contributing to the firms continued growth through driving profitability and enhancing performance. Apply now!

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