Working within the systems area of the finance support department you will provide analytical reporting support to senior managers and to liaise with other support departments with regards to financial reporting best practice. This will include understanding and empathising with their pain points and directing them on construction of scalable reporting solutions based on their requirements and the strategy of the firm using tools that are available.
- Elements of regular management information reporting provision to senior management.
- Ad-hoc report production based on requests from senior management.
- Full understanding preparation, updating and analysis of the inputs into the firm's client profitability system.
- Liaise with other departments to ensure consistency of reporting information and draw together scalable solutions with the assistance of the Finance Systems Support team.
- Produce reports, undertake further analysis to uncover causality as well as use your business knowledge to provide additional value to management.
- Review reporting requirements of different areas of the business and recommend methods of improving their reporting process
- Understand the systems and structures behind the information within the reports and manage the implementation of additional structures and systems to augment their information.
- Ownership and delivery of reports and management information, including personally taking responsibility to ensure the quality of the information and it’s ability to meet documented requirements.
- Excellent financial skills including;
- Experience of financial systems within a professional services environment from a legal background
- Understanding of the finance function processes and revenue recording systems
- Accounting background and/or exposure to accounting principles and processes
- Proven ability to comprehend financial terminolog
- Previous experience of management information systems
- Ability to investigate and explain the causality of figures reported.
- Excellent systems skills including;
- Intimate knowledge of accounting and revenue control from a systems point of view
- Knowledge of servers and database structures.
- Extremely advanced excel skills, including pivot tables and vlookups
- Previous use of an OLAP analysis tool along the lines of Proclarity, XLCubed or Panorama or excellent knowledge of pivot tables.
- Task Management & Presentation Skills
- Self motivated with the ability, and resilience, to drive projects to their completion.
- Self-starter – ability to take initiative and recommend opportunities for improvement
- Ability to prioritise and work to tight deadlines
- Ability to multi task and work on multiple projects.
- Confident, able to lead meetings and projects, in addition, strong presentation skills.
- Strong reporting visualisation skills
- Team player – reliable, flexible and willing to help
- The ability to simplify explanations and inspire confidence.
- Proven organisational skills and attention to detail.
- An investigative nature with an eye for cause and effect.
- Strong numerical skills.
- Experience of working in a legal or professional services firm
- Positive can-do attitude
- Team player – reliable, flexible and willing to help
- Strong analytical capability able to rapidly understand the root cause of issues in order to resolve
Freshfields is an equal opportunities employer and all applications received by the firm will be considered by the firm on the basis of their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background. All offers of employment will be conditional on the candidate having/securing the right to work in the UK and providing the firm with evidence of that right (as required by the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006) prior to employment commencing. Please note that, in line with the requirements of the UK Border Agency, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EEA candidate can fill the position.
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