Finance Analyst

Leading litigation boutique law firm is looking to hire a new Finance Analyst to work across all London practice groups and Business Services functions to improve financial performance.

• £50,000 - £60,000 DOE
• Hybrid Working - 2 days in the office and 3 remotely, 9:30am to 5:30pm*
• Central London

The firm is looking for a CIMA qualified or part qualified commercially focused Finance Analyst and data guru who can support their finance team on reporting and financial analytics, directly reporting into the Finance Director. The Finance Analyst will be expected to interact professionally with Partners and administrative teams to work on varied projects that include design and develop metrics, reporting and analysis to drive key business decisions.

Finance Analyst responsibilities include:

• Supporting the Finance Director, business services and accounts teams by analysing the financial performance of the practice groups through routine reporting and ad-hoc requests.
• Delivering financial support by reviewing requests for data, providing relevant reporting and simple analysis of results.
• Liaison with Accounts Payable and processing through the Aderant for inclusion on invoices being submitted with Funding Notices.
• Leading meetings with Partners and case leads on matters status, billing expectations and timelines, updates on case budget and negotiations.
• Supporting wider projects and initiatives to enhance financial performance and improve profitability.
• Assisting the legal case team with maintaining case budget trackers to ensure they are up to date to facilitate oversight, monitoring and reporting.
• Providing support for the budgeting and forecasting process.
• Supporting with developing the reporting capability in Power BI.
• Maintaining a centralised repository for all Legal Funding Agreements (LFAs) and standardised templates.
• Assisting with allocation of resources across the cases and timekeeper capacity levels.

Finance Analyst requirements:

• Degree educated, studying towards CIMA qualification.
• Minimum 2 years in a financial analyst position working in a law firm.
• Knowledge of Aderant.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office: Excel - including pivot tables/formulas, PowerPoint, Power BI.
• Proactive, self-learner who is motivated and results-oriented with a positive, team-player attitude.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely with lawyers and other departments.

*The successful candidate will be expected to be in 3 days a week during busy periods.