As the Senior Financial Analyst, this role will be responsible for producing the monthly board reports for the MDR Group and providing an in-depth analysis of actual vs budget. This will include writing commentary and highlighting regular and relevant movements and fluctuations, which is fit for purpose for board planning and decision making. This will involve working closely with the Planning and FP&A team, as well as the Financial Accounting team in supporting them with their reporting requirements.

The individual will work closely with the Head of Group Performance to drive best practice and process improvements. Strong technical accounting skills are critical along with the ability to build relationships with key stakeholders across the business and be able to interpret financial data to business leaders. This is a hands-on role that will grow and evolve as the business continues to expand.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for the production of the monthly board report summarising financial performance and analysis against budget, forecast and prior year with key insights.
• Present the flash and board report to senior executives, including the Group CFO.
• Scope and design performance reporting which provides the Board and senior stakeholders with the key performance indicators and analysis to measure the performance against strategic drivers.
• Peer review and challenge of the numbers, liaising with senior stakeholders where required.
• Have an in-depth knowledge of the firm's financial performance across all areas of the business.
• Support the Finance Business Managers with monthly reporting requests and ad hoc queries.
• Report on all aspects of business performance including revenue, profit, working capital and also non-financial measures.
• Work collaboratively with the business and finance department to define the necessary inputs to produce the required reports.
• Drive change and lead on process automation for board reporting.
• Supporting ad hoc projects and requests.

Skills/Experience

• Technical accounting and financial expertise to model the impact of transactions under global accounting standards and policies.
• Strong interpersonal skills and relationship management and the ability to present complex finance transactions in a clear and concise way to senior stakeholders, Board and business heads.
• Technically capable qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, ACMA, or equivalent).
• Advanced MS Excel skills.
• Excellent communication skills, confident presenting to senior internal and external stakeholders, providing technical and commercial support, comfortable challenging senior leaders of the business.
• Process improvement experience.
• Experience with producing board reports.
• Strong visualisation abilities (mainly in PowerPoint).
• Anaplan experience desirable.

Attributes

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build strong working relationships.
• Organised, analytical, pragmatic, methodical, inquisitive and curious, highly articulate and numerate.
• Flexible and adaptable - comfortable with ambiguity as the business grows and evolves.
• Multi-cultural approach - comfortable working with different cultures.
• Personable and hands-on, driven and determined to succeed with a can-do attitude.
• A team player capable of solving complex issues on your own.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About The Mishcon de Reya Group

The Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent international professional service business with law at its heart, employing over 1450 people with close to 670 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services. We have grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone.

Based in London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Singapore, with an association with Karas So LLP in Hong Kong, the firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. The work we undertake is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning six core practice areas: Corporate; Dispute Resolution; Employment; Innovation; Private; and Real Estate.

As of 1 January 2023, Mishcon de Reya and Taylor Vinters merged. The merger delivers on both firms' strategies to support the innovation economy and accelerate our growing share of the technology, media and life-sciences legal and consultancy services market in the UK and in key international innovation hubs globally.

In times of such far-reaching and profound change we want to be the law firm that enables our clients - and our own people - to shape the world's possibilities. We are here to help our clients benefit from new economies, new geographic centres of wealth, the new global movement of people and capital, and the impact of new technologies and new knowledge.

Our purpose remains rooted in our founding values. We take pride in the diverse range of people who make up the firm and are proactive in driving change and continuous improvement across the spectrum of equality, diversity and inclusion. Mishcon Academy , our in-house place of learning, development and new thinking for our people, clients and contacts and our innovative impact strategy, including a commitment to be a net zero carbon business , also play a central strategic role in the direction of the firm. In 2020 we launched Mishcon Purpose , a first-of-its-kind sustainability practice providing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) advice and purpose-driven insight to clients.

The Mishcon de Reya Group comprises standalone businesses MDR Brand Management , MDR Cyber , MDR Discover , MDR One , MDR Mayfair (in London, Singapore and Dubai) and MDRx . Complementary to Mishcon de Reya's core areas of work, each is led by best in class professionals recruited from a variety of non-legal industries and sectors.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.

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