Financial Controller

DiSRUPT Recruitment & Search | B Corp; Amersham; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

DiSRUPT Recruitment & Search | B Corp seeks a Qualified Financial Controller / Hands-on Head of Finance for a respected family‑run law firm across the Home Counties. This is predominantly office-based with some hybrid flexibility based on workloads and partner interaction.

Ideal candidate will bring legal sector financial accounting expertise, COFA experience under SRA Accounts Rules, and a proven ability to deliver timely, trusted management and statutory accounts, tax and payroll data while

Qualifications

• Financial control experience within a legal practice.
• Working knowledge of SRA Accounts Rules — comfortable as COFA.
• Confident across management accounts, statutory accounts, tax, VAT and payroll.

Responsibilities

• Lead the finance function for the law firm and drive process improvements.
• Provide timely, trusted data and commentary to Partners and teams.
• Act as COFA under the SRA Accounts Rules and mentor the finance team.

Skills

Financial control

Management accounts

Statutory accounts

Tax

Payroll

COFA knowledge

Attention to detail

Leadership

Job description

Qualified Financial Controller / Hands on head of Finance role for an amazing family-run law firm based across the home counties.

This is predominantly an office based with some flexibility for hybrid working when workloads allow due to the hands on team and partner interaction needed.

This is an outstanding opportunity to step into, up or sideways into an all encompassing FC role where you can add value and hit the ground running.

We would ideally like someone from the Legal Sector to bring your career wide Legal Accounting expertise into this FC role (Conveyancing knowledge/experience would be a big plus), however we are also open to profiles from the wider Professional Services sector who are willing to learn the legal accounting requirements for this role.

Reporting to the partners you understand how important "attention to detail" is in this role and how to create "trust" in the numbers, data and commentary you produce.

You will have the autonomy to drive process efficiency and deliver workflow improvements to provide timely and trusted data and solutions to the Partners and teams.

You will be a natural problem solver and proactively remove "bottlenecks" to resolve questions/queries or requests for financial data/information every time/first time in a fast and efficient way.

In addition you will be a natural leader, someone who will empower your team to use their initiative, to learn and to develop their skills and ability. You will thrive in a business where you can bring existing knowledge and expertise to own financial control across the practice, including acting as COFA under the SRA Accounts Rules.

Ideal background:

• Financial control experience within a legal practice
• Working knowledge of SRA Accounts Rules — comfortable as COFA
• Confident across management accounts, statutory accounts, tax, VAT and payroll