Junior Finance Analyst

This corporate law firm is one of the best firms in London. They attract clients that includes some of the worlds most successful businesses and well-known high net worth individuals. They currently have around 400 fee earning staff.

They are now looking to hire a Junior Finance Analyst. This role arises due to an expansion in the finance team service offering and will be a new role within the commercial finance team. The role sits alongside three other areas in finance supporting the practice areas: revenue control, financial control and finance systems. The role will report directly to the Commercial Finance Business Partner.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of new profitability reporting to the business.
• Work within finance to ensure integrity and accuracy of data used in finance reporting.
• Ensure delivery of all required reporting for the business accurately and on time.
• Help to develop the reporting capability for other business services functions (BD, HR), including producing client profitability packs as well as other ad hoc analysis.
• Ensure all data queries received are dealt with on a timely basis, identifying any common requests that could be better served by standardised reporting.
• Manage monthly FTE reporting and direct cost reviews for practice areas, supporting the finance team with variance analysis; and begin to utilise new technologies for new dashboards and reporting overtime.
• Manage the annual and quarterly external survey process.
• Support on key annual presentations to the firm.
• Support on preparation of financial information for firms partner promotion process.
• Help support the annual budgeting and forecasting process.
• Calculation, loading and on-going maintenance of the firms cost rates in conjunction with finance systems, usually as part of the annual budgeting process.
• Support the implementation of updated charge out rates when agreed through the budget process; and analysis of profit levers to identify core trends and details.
• Ad hoc analysis as required; and
• Work closely to help support key areas of process improvement across the finance function.

Candidate Profile

• Experience of legal systems is desirable. Good keyboard skills and competence in Word, Excel and Outlook are required.
• Excellent inter-personal communication skills (both written and verbal), demonstrating experience of liaising with clients, partners, fee-earners, secretaries and finance colleagues.
• Team player who supports and motivates their colleagues. Follows instructions but is confident to query instructions when unsure.
• Demonstrate a clear track record of commitment to the highest level of customer service.
• A high level of numeracy is required together with a good understanding of financial workings.

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