Finance Business Partner Any UK Office Role Overview Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We're naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We'll truly value your ideas. You'll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you'll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You'll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results. Our people are our success, and we work as one team. We are recruiting Finance Business Partner to support one of our Practice Group Directors of Finance and Operations (DFO) with the commercial and financial operations within the Group. The team is spread between our UK office locations. Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests. Candidate Overview We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience: Support the Practice Group DFO in the preparation and analysis required for monthly activities, ensuring that all practice group reporting deadlines are met. Monthly review of the practice group trading statements, investigating any variances, and following up with Financial Control and any other relevant stakeholders to ensure that queries are swiftly resolved. Monthly review of recruitment costs and related accruals to ensure all costs are correctly captured. Development and enhancement of monthly headcount and related KPI reporting across the teams Work closely with HR and the DFO to review any recruitment and flexible resource requests across the teams. Work closely with Flexible Resourcing team and Vario Finance team to understand financials related to flexible resource working within the practice group Support HR and the DFO with the annual salary review cycle, providing any required analysis and schedules in accordance with the centralised timetables Work closely with the Resource Manager to enhance resource management and reporting across the teams Provision of financial analysis to fee earners across the practice groups, answering queries and providing commercial insight and commentary where relevant. Support the DFO and Sector Heads with any sector specific analysis and queries. Ad hoc analysis and presentations as required by the DFO, Group Head, Sector Heads or Team Leaders Liaison with HR to obtain all relevant information on staff changes to ensure that these are captured for budgeting purposes. Work closely with the Financial Planning & Analysis team to resolve any issues and ensure that data loads are reconciled and agreed by the deadline Monthly review of fee earner targets to ensure that the systems data is correct and accurate. Work closely with the Financial Systems and HR Analytics teams to ensure that all records are updated in a timely fashion and all queries are resolved. Support the DFO with the provision of any analysis and presentations required for the annual Business Qualifications: University degree (2:1 or equivalent), ideally in a numerate discipline. Qualified Accountant (ACMA, ACCA, ACA) with at least 3yrs PQE What happens next? Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email. We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate. Our strength lies in our differences. We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents. LI-BOSO IND