Senior Finance Analyst (Financial Planning & Analysis)

Osborne Clarke; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law practice is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to join their dynamic Finance Team in Bristol. This role involves budgeting, forecasting, and creating insightful reports. The successful candidate will work collaboratively, applying their professional skills in a fast-paced environment, while exploring significant growth opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Generous benefits

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience using PowerBI to build dashboards.
• Professional accountancy qualification or in progress.
• Strong skills in Excel and data manipulation.

Responsibilities

• Support FP&A Manager with Board-level reporting.
• Contribute to budget and forecast processes.
• Manage production of regular reports with focus on improvement.

Skills

PowerBI

Numeracy

Problem-solving

Excel data modelling

Interpersonal skills

Organisation skills

Communication skills

Education

Professional accountancy qualification

Job description

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Role profile

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Finance Analyst to join our dynamic Finance Team. As Osborne Clarke embark on an exciting period of change with the imminent move to a new practice management system (PMS), we are looking for a Senior Finance Analyst to help design and develop insightful Management Information reports, as well as contributing with budgeting and forecasting processes within the FP&A team.

The successful candidate will enjoy a collaborative role working with Practice Groups, Service Lines and Customer Relationship teams. This role is based out of our new central Bristol office in Finzel's Reach with the option for some homeworking too.

Key Responsibilities

This is an exceptional opportunity that offers a diverse range of responsibilities and scope for professional growth. Given the significant tasks both prior to and after the launch of new PMS, the key responsibilities will be as follows:

• Supporting the FP&A Manager with Board-level reporting and support to the CFO
• Contributing to budget, planning and forecast process and month end close, including implementation of a new budgeting system.
• Assistance in financial year-end preparation and reporting, including collation of presentations and data for management meetings.
• Rebuild management information and board reporting: support with requirements gathering and design of dashboards (PowerBI).
• Manage the production of regular reporting with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Assessment work with the FP&A manager to define the long term reporting strategy.
• Preparing financials for annual surveys, involving collaboration with other business services teams such as HR, Risk & Compliance, IT etc.
• Data validation within the new PMS.
• Liaising with the International Finance teams and sharing best practice with regards to standardised reporting and processes.
• Provide ad hoc analysis and support, client reporting and project involvement as required.
  
  

We Are Looking For Someone With

• Experience of using and building dashboards in PowerBI
• Excellent numeracy and problem-solving skills.
• Excel data modelling and data manipulation skills.
• Professional accountancy qualification, or currently studying towards the qualification
• An eye for design and understanding of presenting finance information to non-finance professionals.
• Experience of working in a professional services environment.
• Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with experience communicating to senior stakeholders.
• Self-motivated and able to work within a team and on own initiative.
  
  

Salary And Benefits

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.

Our recruitment process

If you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Dan Jones (Recruitment Manager) on 0117 917 4097 or email [e-mail] or Tim Jenkins (Recruitment Advisor) on 0117 917 3666 or email [e-mail].

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.

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Seniority level

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Employment type

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