Finance Analyst

Osborne Clarke; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international legal practice is looking for a Finance Analyst to join their dynamic Finance Team in Bristol. This role involves providing analytical support, producing financial reports, and enhancing financial performance for practice groups. The ideal candidate will possess strong numeracy and problem-solving skills, along with intermediate Excel proficiency. The firm offers competitive salaries and a supportive work environment focused on wellbeing and inclusivity.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous benefits

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience as a finance analyst.
• Intermediate level Excel skills and large dataset manipulation.
• Excellent organisational skills with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Deliver robust financial business partnering to practice groups.
• Produce regular reporting packs and pricing requests.
• Support monthly management information packs with commentary.

Skills

Numeracy skills

Problem-solving skills

Excel skills

Organisational skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Education

Part-qualified in accountancy (e.g., ACCA, CIMA)

Job description

Role profile

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Analyst to join our dynamic Finance Team. You will work closely with the Finance Business Partners (FBP) to provide crucial analytical support that forms the foundation of the assistance given to practice groups and sectors. The role involves delivering high-quality financial information and analysis in a consistent and interpretable format, aiding in decision-making and supporting the firm's financial objectives.

This a permanent position, based in our Bristol office with some travel to our London and Reading offices.

The team

Our Commercial Finance and Pricing team is made of two subteams which includes FP&A focused firmwide reporting, planning, budgeting and the coordination of key BAU activities, and the Finance Business Partnering team who are focused providing strategic financial support, pricing assistance and commercial training. We have a new opportunity for an experienced Finance Analyst to join our FBP team.

What you'll do

The Finance Analyst will assist in producing regular reporting packs, pricing requests, commercial training and providing ad hoc analysis to the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with your line manager (FBP) to deliver robust financial business partnering to UK practice groups and sectors, aiming to enhance financial performance. This includes preparation work for management meetings and presentations.
• Provide high-quality analytical support for long-term business planning, annual budgets, and monthly forecasts for assigned practice groups and sectors.
• Ensure all month-end close activities are completed on time, including the monthly management information packs with insightful, action-based commentary. Identify areas to create efficiencies in monthly processes and add additional insights where possible.
• Build and maintain relationships with relevant fee-earning and business services stakeholders to assist in achieving the firm's strategic objectives.
• Support quarterly sector meetings by ensuring the required information is provided, including ad hoc analysis and management information packs for sector leaders.
• Support the administration of the firm's pricing policy by providing pricing analysis and support to partners and the Bids team. Ensure our pricing support tracking system is kept updated.
• Collaborate with the Finance Business Partners to drive profitability improvement by supporting Client Relationship Partners with client profitability deep dives.
• Participate in the delivery of commercial awareness training to fee earners and business services.
• Support on firm-wide tactical objectives to increase productivity and profitability, including supporting lead FBPs by investigating large data sets and extracting insights and trends.
• Investigate and resolve financial queries from the business in a timely manner.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis, client reporting, and project support as needed.

We are looking for

• Experience working as a finance analyst.
• Part-qualified or looking to pursue a professional accountancy qualification (e.g., ACCA, CIMA).
• Excellent numeracy and problem-solving skills.
• Intermediate Excel skills, including a robust understanding of formulas and large dataset manipulation.
• Excellent organisational skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work effectively within a team or independently.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range initiatives and benefits support this.

Our recruitment process

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

*Services in India are provided by a relationship firm