Finance Business Partner (12 Month FTC)

Osborne Clarke; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international legal practice is seeking an experienced Finance Business Partner to support strategic financial planning and enhance pricing proficiency. This role involves engaging with senior leaders, developing financial tools, and delivering commercial training. Applicants should have a relevant qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) and strong analytical skills. This hybrid position in Bristol is a 12-month fixed-term contract with competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous benefits

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven track record within a legal or professional services background.
• Experience as a Finance Business Partner or in a similar role.
• Strong grasp of business strategy and commercial awareness.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor for strategic decision-making.
• Enhance the firm's pricing support proficiency.
• Develop financial metrics and tools for reporting.

Skills

Financial analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Relationship building

Advanced Excel skills

Presentation skills

Education

Qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

Job description

Role Overview

The Finance Business Partner will be a key member of the Commercial Finance and Pricing Team, promoting collaboration, team working, and innovation. This role will involve engaging with senior business leaders to support strategic decision‑making and enhance the firm's pricing support proficiency. Strategic Financial Planning: Acting as a trusted advisor to the leadership in your practice group and sectors, providing insight, critical evaluation, and challenge to support strategic and operational decision‑making. Pricing Support: Enhancing the firm's pricing support proficiency by ensuring compliance with the pricing policy, assisting with bids and client profitability analysis, and continuously developing our commercial training programme. Firmwide Projects: Participating in strategic and transformation change projects as defined in the Finance Tactical objectives, including taking a leading role on the firm's strategic profitability or productivity agendas. Stakeholder Engagement: Engaging proactively with senior leadership to drive stakeholder engagement and support strategic decision‑making. Collaborating with Operations Directors, HR, and Marketing to provide comprehensive cross‑functional operational support. Financial Reporting: Developing financial metrics and tools to support financial reporting, profitability growth, pricing strategies, and innovation. Automating and streamlining existing financial reporting processes, ensuring adaptability to stakeholder needs. Commercial Training: Developing and conducting commercial finance training programs across Osborne Clarke to enhance financial acumen. Line Management: Responsible for managing one Finance Analyst, developing their confidence and skills, and acting as a role model and coach to other analysts in the team.

Key Qualifications

• Qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with a proven track record within a legal or professional services background.
• Experience of working as a Finance Business Partner or a similar commercial role.
• Demonstrated experience in a complex business environment, with a strong grasp of business strategy and commercial awareness.
• Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• The ability to write insightful financial and commercial commentaries based upon sound financial management.
• Proven ability to build and develop strong relationships within the business, with the ability to explain financial information to non‑finance people.
• Confidence to influence and challenge business decisions where appropriate.
• Advanced Excel skills, with experience in manipulating complex data sets and creating financial models.
• Ideally experience of legal pricing, this is not a prerequisite.

About Osborne Clarke

Osborne Clarke are seeking an experienced Finance Business Partner to join our growing Commercial Finance and Pricing Team in our Bristol office. This role will play a crucial role in bolstering strategic financial planning and delivering insightful analysis that aligns with Osborne Clarke's strategic aims. It is a 12-month fixed-term position offering hybrid working.

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. We advise 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 is 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.

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