Commercial Finance Business Partner

Are you an experienced Commercial Finance Business Partner looking for your next opportunity?

As the Commercial Finance Business Partner for this global law firm, you will work closely with the business to provide budget assurance, performance improvement, strategic financial leadership and proactive financial support in managing your assigned practice group.

• Working as the senior financial link between the EMEA wide practice group, the Finance department and wider business support teams.
• Proactively working with Practice Group Leaders, their leadership teams and partners to provide financial expertise and support, e.g. effective and regular presentations at partner meetings, identifying and leading initiatives to improve financial performance.
• Providing necessary financial support to ensure strategic business development, client retention and increased client profitability within the practice groups.
• Supporting pricing team promotional efforts including presentations to key stakeholders to increase internal adoption and market awareness. Encouraging broader and better use of the Firm's tools to develop more profitable and consistent pricing approaches.
• In conjunction with the working capital teams, keep abreast of any issues within the practice group and assist in resolution. Being able to articulate any financial or business risks of significant working capital issues.
• Annual planning and budgeting for your practice group
• Quarterly reforecasting to actively monitor and manage financial risks and opportunities.

• Enabling the practice group to achieve its objectives, make decisions and plan appropriately through the effective understanding and use of financial analysis.
• Preparation of high quality monthly finance MI which contains insightful commentary, analysis, and articulation of required management actions. Monitoring performance against long-term strategic and short-term operational plans and assisting the partners formulate the necessary actions to be taken to achieve agreed financial targets.
• Supporting the practice groups in building business cases for required initiatives, such as lateral hires, fee earner promotions, practice area and geographic expansion.
• In conjunction with Commercial Finance Business Partner colleagues (currently a team of four), supporting the Commercial Finance Director in the overall financial management of the practice areas including conducting thorough annual financial reviews.

Applicants must have solid finance business partnering experience and be able to demonstrate experience working closely with senior stakeholders within a professional services business. Must have a high degree of commercial acumen with exceptional analysis and financial modelling skills.

ACCA/CIMA/ACA is essential as well as strong academics.