Finance Business Partner

**The Company Overview**:
Butler rose are partnered with a well-established, global legal services firm, helping business with their legal needs across the world. This fantastic opportunity would be ideal for an enthusiastic, well organised, qualified individual who would reallyembrace working in a supportive, collaborative environment. My client is hiring for 2* Finance Business Partners with excellent attention to detail on a permanent basis working from either their Sheffield or Manchester offices.

Reporting to the Head of Finance Business Partnering, this is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who wishes to be part of a progressive, customer-centric team. You will be an experienced commercial finance professional, who can demonstratestrong written and verbal communication and the required soft skills to work effectively with stakeholders, quickly developing a trusted adviser status.

**Your new role as Finance Business Partner**:
**Your duties will include**:
**Business Partnering**
- Serving as the key financial interface between the international practice group management and the Finance department
- Proactively working with International Practice Group Heads, their leadership teams and partners to provide financial expertise and support
- Working with colleagues across the Finance function in leading the delivery of the finance curriculum agenda for the lawyers
- Providing necessary financial support to ensure strategic business development, client retention and increased client profitability within the practice groups
- Supporting the pricing team including presentations to key stakeholders to increase internal use of the pricing team, the toolsets and broaden commercial awareness around pricing and delivering profitable work.
- Work in conjunction with the credit control and local finance teams being able to clearly articulate any financial or business risks, or significant working capital issues
- Providing finance support to Service Directors and meeting with them to help them understand the key financial issues they need to address.

**Financial Planning**
- Manage the annual planning and budgeting process for the practice group and support the delivery and maintenance of group led strategic plans
- Manage the budgeting process for the service areas to challenge expenditure plans and successfully present their cost budget
- Contribute to the wider commercial review and playback of the budget to the Finance Leadership Team
- Undertaking the reforecasting process to actively monitor and manage financial risks and opportunities for both practice group and service area and provide an updated view of trading to management

**Financial Analysis**
- Enabling the practice group to achieve its objectives, make decisions and plan appropriately through the effective understanding and use of financial analysis
- Interpretation of monthly finance MI into 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 necessary actions
- Working on ad-hoc projects including financial modelling for required initiatives, such as lateral hires, partner promotions, practice area and geographic expansion
- Monthly reporting for the Executive and Board, highlighting key issues for discussion and proposing actions/solutions
- In conjunction with Commercial Finance Business Partner colleagues, supporting the Head of Finance Business Partnering in the overall financial management of the practice areas
- Supporting the development of the Finance Analysts through mentoring and guidance

**The Experience & Qualifications Required**:

- ACCA / ACA / CIMA qualified with proven PQE experience.
- Finance Business Partnering experience with senior stakeholders (ideally within a professional services business, but would consider similar experience in other sectors)
- A high degree of commercial acumen with exceptional analysis and financial modelling skills and evidence of applied strategic thinking/planning
- Excellent written and verbal communication and has strength of personality to ensure the Finance view is clearly communicated.
- Capable and confident in presenting to large audiences face to face or via technology
- The ability to remain calm and focused under pressure
- Well-developed soft skills with the gravitas to influence or challenge senior stakeholders when necessary and to gain respect as a trusted advisor
- A continuous improvement mentality to support development of self, colleagues and business processes and interactions
- Attention to detail as well as an ability to see the bigger picture which considers any cross-business implications
- Excellent time management skills, able to manage stakeholders during times of conflicting deliverables and proven experience of delivering on simultaneous tasks
- Excellent Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills
- Great team working skills and a passion for delivering results
- Ability to flex working style to collaborate across functions and geographies and adapt to change

**Your Reward & The Package On Offer**:
**As Finance Business Partner you shall receive**

A salary of £40,000.00 - £60,000.00 depending on level & experience

28 days holiday

Holiday buy back scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Pension

Life insurance

Discounts and perks

Butler Rose is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
Butler Rose Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.