Finance Leader engaged in business development and decision - making for Procter & Gamble. Collaborating on product launches and exploring financial impacts in a dynamic work environment.
About the role
- Commercial Finance Manager working with stakeholders to drive performance and deliver financial improvement. Supporting the brand through insights and collaboration in a hybrid role.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for business partnering legal teams, delivering excellent service and a customer-focussed approach to support the Shakespeare Martineau brand.
- Monitoring and reporting on activity throughout the month to help team leads manage performance.
- Creating and delivering insightful reporting, analysis and commentary for monthly MI including performance against targets, utilisation, management of working capital.
- Identifying areas that are not performing to expectation and providing recommendations for improvement to monthly trading meetings.
- Preparation of annual budgets and semi-annual forecasts, working with stakeholders to help set and challenge.
- Responding in a timely manner to ad-hoc analysis and information requests from fee earners and other stakeholders.
- Preparation and challenge of business cases for recruitment to ensure ROI in line with brand expectations, working closely with people teams.
- Preparation of historical profitability analysis to support decision-making including tender submissions.
- Critical review of internal processes, identifying and implementing improvements and efficiencies.
- Coaching fee earners to upskill knowledge and performance in relation to financial management
- Collaborating and liaising with the firm’s central finance teams
Requirements
- To be a qualified accountant with one of the following qualifications (ACA/ACCA/CIMA).
- Demonstrable experience of finance business partnering with a commercial mind-set.
- Legal or professional services experience desirable.
- Extensive experience of working with large planning and forecasting applications, e.g. IBM Planning and Analytics or similar.
- Advanced level Excel skills, in particular being able to create appropriate financial models.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport, credibility and manage expectations with a variety of stakeholders
- To be a commercially aware self-starter, pro-active with the ability to work at both a strategic and detailed operational level.
- Flexibility and the ability to operate in a changing environment, prioritising workload to meet deadlines
Benefits
- We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.
- We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.
- We have the following hubs across the UK: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stratford upon Avon and in the South East; Brighton, Chichester, Crawley, East Grinstead, Eastbourne, Lewes, Seaford, Storrington, Southampton & Tunbridge Wells.
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