Finance Business Partner

2 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Norton Rose Fulbright Full time

Practice Group / Department:
Financial Control Management - Newcastle

**Job Description**:
We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide.

We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service.

As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. We value difference and actively promote a culture of respect for each individual, encouraging and creating inclusion.

Our new hybrid working model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing.

The role provides the opportunity to continue the development of finance business partnering in Norton Rose Fulbright LLP through commercially driven finance support to the Business Services functions. The annual budget for Business Services is c$250million and includes IT, Marketing & Business Development, Property and Office Operations, Finance and People & Culture.

Reporting to the Head of Financial Control, and working in a small team of three (another Finance Business Partner - Business Services and Finance Analyst) the role will support Business Services leadership in cost management over the short and medium term. This role is expected to support the larger functions of IT, Marketing and Business Development and Finance as well as other smaller functions
_the other Finance Business Partner - Business Services currently supports People & Culture (HR) and Property and Office Operations, as well as other smaller function_)

The Role

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Support the formal annual budget process for Business Services (_the budget year is to 31 December with budgeting starting in September of the current year)_. In doing so the role will be responsible for:

- Coordinating a Forecast for the current year which forms the baseline against which the budget will be primarily assessed.
- Coordinating inputs and budget assumptions from UK and EMEA teams in line with the budget timetable.
- Providing challenge and rigour in the development of the Business Services’ annual budgets, as well as the longer term plans (_3 year headcount planning exercises are being considered, especially given the strategic focus of investing in Newcastle)_
- Management of the budget in the financial planning and reporting system (_the 2024 Budget will be completed in the new Tagetik planning system. This will be the first year of using Tagetik_)
- Preparation of budget presentation templates and budget presentations, as well as supporting Budget Holders present budgets
- Providing ad hoc support and analysis to the Budget Holders (_who are _senior leadership_) and Senior Finance team members as part of informal forecasting during the year (_we plan to leverage the investment in Tagetik to more formally_
- Developing and improving monthly management reporting for the monitoring of performance against budget, including formal monthly reviews with the applicable Budget Holders. (_Key reporting objectives include timely information, more insightful analysis and commentary and improvements in finance “hygiene” factors (for example, coding of costs). This is essentially to support moving the team “up the value chain” of finance business partnering.)_
- Working with the Budget Holders to drive accountability for delivering budgets, managing costs to ensure value for money and to identify any remedial actions to support budget and forecast delivery.
- Supporting the applicable Budget Holders in the development of business cases and other finance information that improve service delivery and/or cost efficiencies. In doing so provide the finance “sign off” on financials being presented to leadership. _(formal business cases are rarely presented for sign off, rather decisions are currently made with limited financial information. As noted above the ambition is to move the team “up the value chain” of business partnering and this is one area under where this can be acheived)_
- Establishing and maintaining robust financial procedures that support financial control objectives (for example, working with People & Culture to support role approvals)
- Driving commercial performance, identifying opportunities for cost efficiencies for the functions supported.

Accountable To

Head of Financial Control.

Accountable For

To be confirmed. A Finance Analyst in the te

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