Finance Business Partner

2 days ago

Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Walker Morris LLP Full time


Overview

We're recruiting a Finance Business Partner to help shape pricing and profitability at Walker Morris.

In this pivotal role, you'll partner with department heads and senior solicitors, delivering clear financial insights and constructive challenge to support strategic decision-making. Your expertise will drive improvements in pricing, rates, and profitability, directly contributing to the firm's ambitious growth plans.

From analysing data and building financial models to guiding partners through complex pricing conversations, this is a chance to influence outcomes at the highest level. You'll enjoy autonomy to lead change, the backing of a collaborative team, and clear opportunities for career progression.

Motivated by the opportunity to enhance profitability, influence strategic decisions, and tackle complex challenges, this role offers real impact and visibility across the firm.

As the Finance Business Partner, you will:

Work with solicitors on producing new business cases to clients, making recommendations on suitable rates to pitch work at. Support will range from small new instructions with existing clients to detailed recommendations on new client bids with the potential to deliver £1m+ in annual fees.Explore and respond to new challenges outside of the usual pricing process, e.g. alternative fee arrangements, the use of innovative tech in client instructions and the cost of broader Business Development investment.Work with solicitors to build commercial awareness of client relationships to ensure proposals are competitive from a market perspective.Deliver actionable insight to Partners and other senior solicitors on a timely basis with regards allocation of work by rank. Offer recommendations for reallocation and calculate the improvement to value of doing so.Provide detailed financial analysis to support the assessment of performance by department or client and opportunities and risks associated with further investment.Work with solicitors to build commercial awareness of client relationships to ensure proposals are profitable but competitive from a market perspective.Support members of the finance department and wider business to share analysis to help improve current processes and facilitate project objectives.Lead on improvements to the processes that allow solicitors to track progress against fee estimates.

We are looking for:

ACA or ACCA qualified, or equivalentA minimum of 2 years' experience within a Business Partnering role for a professional services firm.Experience of working within a finance department, ideally in a commercially focused or business partnering role.Can evidence the ability to constructively challenge stakeholders.Excellent communication and influencing skills with experience of presenting to and influencing senior teams.Excellent IT skills (to include in depth experience of Excel and strong Excel modelling skills), plus good working knowledge of Word, Outlook and Powerpoint.Highly self-motivated and enthusiastic, with a keen eye for detail and a passion for delivering excellence. 

Some of our benefits include:

Salary reflective of your experience.Earn up to 10% of your salary with our annual bonus scheme.Minimum of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service, with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year.Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme, and we'll contribute a minimum of 6% of your salary. 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.Hybrid and flexible working with a minimum of 40% of your time spent in the office.

Find out more about working at Walker Morris here.

Company Values

Our shared values represent our culture and the things that are important to us.  They define who we are as a Firm, as an employer and what we expect of our people.  They provide direction and purpose by influencing the decisions that we make and the actions that we take.  It's really important that all candidates and employees demonstrate these values in their day-to-day activities:

Embrace the fact everyone is different and unique.You can be serious without wearing a suit.Never lose sight of the bigger picture.Two heads are better than one.Take the bull by the horns.We win & lose together.

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity. Click here to find out more about our diversity and inclusion work. 

If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to ask. We are a Disability Confident employer.



Type of Working

Hybrid

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