Financial Controls Analyst

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Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

This role is focused on ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of financial controls across the firm. The successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring and validating key financial processes, particularly those involving fee earners, disbursements, and time recording. They will address queries from fee earners, ensuring that financial controls such as authority levels, time recording accuracy, and fee earner transfers are being followed correctly and consistently. The role involves analysing responses to monthly Financial Compliance & Valuation processes, investigating non-recoverable work-in-progress, and supporting external audit requirements.

Working closely with compliance managers, the analyst will help maintain regulatory standards, contribute to month-end reporting, and support continuous improvement in financial governance. This is a hands-on role requiring strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively across departments.

Key Responsibilities

• Validate fee earner responses to the monthly Financial Compliance & Valuation (FCV) process, focusing on disbursement recoverability.
• Prepare analysis on historic disbursement write-offs to inform financial provisions.
• Provide audit support, including disbursement and provision data for external auditors.
• Deliver analysis to support Financial Control decisions, including WIP transfers and non-recoverable WIP investigations.
• Collaborate with compliance managers to ensure adherence to SRA Accounts Rules and internal controls.
• Manage residual balance reporting and month-end compliance reports.
• Oversee Legal Aid Agency recoupment and Premex accrual reporting.

About You

Experience & Skills Required

Essential:

• Experience in analytical roles with a proactive, inquisitive mindset.
• Strong Excel skills (e.g., pivot tables, lookups, index match, sumifs).
• Excellent numerical and analytical ability.
• Prior experience working in a legal / Regulated environment

Desirable:

• Familiarity with financial controls and process improvement
• Experience supporting external audits.

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can 'buy' up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you're fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We're committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It's made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

Additional Information

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group's on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group's employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.