Summary of Position

You will be a collaborative forward thinking Finance Business Manager. In this role, you will report to Partner, Finance Director and be aligned with Innovation or one of the following practice areas: Corporate & Real Estate, Dispute Resolution, or Private to identify and help drive improvements in financial performance.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide financial reporting, detailed analysis and insight to assist in commercial decision making.
• Assist in the annual budgeting process and ongoing forecasting exercises.
• Provide high quality, reliable, and timely analysis.
• Assist in the maintenance of data in key internal systems and ensure data is reviewed and reconciled as required.
• Ensure key data in budgeting and practice management systems are maintained accurately.
• Undertake profitability analysis at client, matter, work-type, Partner and fee-earner level.
• Ad-hoc financial analysis and tasks will be required in addition to BAU responsibilities.
• Improve overall understanding of financial KPI's and performance across the business.
• Assist with the preparation of other key reports on financials and performance, highlighting required business interventions.

Skills/Experience

• A qualified Accountant (ACA / CIMA / ACCA) with 3 + years PQE.
• 3 + years of experience gained as a Finance Business Manager where you have been embedded in 'the business'.
• Personable and confident, able to build relationships with key / senior stakeholders
• Development of KPI's specifically in regard to revenue, pricing.
• Highly analytical with strong forecasting and budgeting skills.
• Ability to work with large volume of data, from different sources.
• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills.
• Advanced IT skills e.g., writing macros in Excel, SQL experience highly desirable.
• Knowledge or willingness to learn to use new tools (e.g., Microsoft Power BI).

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 adoptable - comfortable with ambiguity as the business grows and evolves.
• Personable and hands-on, driven and determined to succeed with a can-do attitude.
• A team player capable of solving complex issues on his/her 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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