This is a new and exciting role which brings the opportunity to be part of building a commercial business partnering function from the ground up. Key to the delivery of the firm’s profitability and pricing strategies, this role is an opportunity to have a real influence on the business.
You will be a true partner, building close relationships with senior management in order to gain a strong fundamental understanding of operations, analysing and modelling to identify opportunities, working with management to build plans to capitalise on these, and being a key part of delivery within a cross functional team.
Role Responsibility
Performance Improvement: fee-earning group
- Builds strong relationships with all partners of assigned fee-earning group and leverages these relationships to deliver commercial benefit
- Through analysis and discussion identifies areas of the fee-earning group where profit improvement activities are required, and builds buy in from senior stakeholders to solve these challenges
- Builds profitability improvement plans with the responsible partners
- Initiates and takes a lead on delivery on these profit improvement initiatives, working with 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
- Drives a focus on working capital improvement
- Plays an active part in assigned fee-earning group’s management meetings
- Ad hoc reporting and analysis
Pricing
- Takes a lead on the creation of pricing proposals, including adopting novel solutions to meet client needs while delivering improved profitability for the firm
- Presents pricing proposals to the pricing governance board
- Drives improvement in pricing practices through a lessons learnt framework
- Ensures pricing lessons and approaches from across the firm are leveraged within assigned fee-earning group
Performance Improvement – Finance Operations
- Creates monthly analysis and commentary on assigned fee-earning group’s performance for board reporting
- The main point of contact for Finance with assigned fee-earning group and champions finance
- Facilitates finance improvement projects where there is an impact in assigned fee-earning group
- Works with the Commercial Reporting team to drive improvements to standardised 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
- Runs budgeting and reforecasting processes in assigned fee-earning group
The Ideal Candidate Must…
- 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