Commercial Finance Manager

Birmingham - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

About the role:

We have a great opportunity for a Commercial Finance Manager to join our Birmingham office.

This role is required to provide clear and strong financial challenge to the Legal Group(s) and their Group / Region / Team Leaders and day-to-day collaboration with the Partners and teams in developing and delivering agreed business plans as well as improving business performance by identifying opportunities and implementing the change successfully.

This role will be responsible for the business planning budgeting and financial performance of the allocated legal group(s) ranging from 20 30 Partners with revenue between 20m and 50m. The key relationships as a Commercial Finance Manager will be:

Internal Commercial Director CFO Office Managing Partners (OMPs) Practice Group Leaders (PGLs) Team leaders (TLs) Partners and teams Business Services teams
External Clients Audit team Business Consultants Suppliers Finance Networks

About you:

We are looking for someone who is ACA ACCA or CIMA qualified with a strong communication style and the ability to present complex financial data and concepts in a clear concise way to non-financial professionals. To this role you will bring a highly developed analytical and financial modelling skills supported with a robust commercial acumen and strong people management and development skills. Within this role you will have relationships across the firm to individuals at all levels and therefore will need to be confident in your ability to influence and persuade challenging colleagues and partners.

For this role it would be desirable but not essential to have the following:

Exposure to legal sector or professional services firms.
Use of and familiarity with IBM Cognos (or similar planning budgeting and/or forecasting software tools)

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 26 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits including:

25 days annual leave with the option to buy up to a weeks extra annual leave
Free private medical insurance and the option to add family members
A generous pension allowance
Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
Maternity paternity and adoption leave schemes
A range of health and wellbeing programmes
State of the art offices in the heart of Birmingham City Centre with an onsite restaurant
Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development
A hybrid approach with office and remote working

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firmand to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour nationality ethnicity national origins) religion or belief age disability sexual orientation sex gender re-assignment and gender identity marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLGwe seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyones potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at

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Required Experience:

Manager

DescriptionAbout the role:We have a great opportunity for a Commercial Finance Manager to join our Birmingham office.This role is required to provide clear and strong financial challenge to the Legal Group(s) and their Group / Region / Team Leaders and day-to-day collaboration with the Partners and ...