Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner - Real Estate

£65k - £70k plus bonus

Location - Central London

• Business partnering with the 3 fee earning departments and central management function, developing relationships with department sub-teams and fee earners, and providing real-time support and high quality analysis to inform commercial decision-making.

• Working with fee earners to calculate and review the profitability and pricing of prospective, new and existing jobs and projects.

• Providing analysis of market information to identify and track competitor trends

• Supporting ad-hoc business projects, for example helping business cases for senior lateral hires and preparing analysis reports

• Analyse cost drivers and value including benchmarking costs and making recommendations for improvement

• Maintaining (and supporting the evolution of) WIP, Pipeline and invoicing schedules, ensuring the records are complete and up to date and reconcile to Finance department systems

• Work with fee earners to assess and evaluate, on a job-by-job basis, the likelihood of jobs completing, and in so doing produce monthly forecast figures.

• Work with department heads to create detailed schedules, to assist with forecasting and budgeting processes, providing feedback and support to Head of Finance, FC, & CFO.

• Preparing financial reporting for the departments, in the most appropriate format for various forums, meetings, committees and other groups, in line with each department’s reporting cycles.

• Controlling the department’s month end billing process, performing checks to ensure that invoices are issued in line with Finance department procedures and encouraging/enforcing compliance

• Reporting Head of Finance, FC, and CFO on billing issues, whilst considering potential solutions

• Calculate and verifying WIP values for the year-end financial statements and assisting with the audit process

• Working with department partners, FBP, Head of Finance, FC, and CFO on the management and continuous improvement of fee-earning departments

• Ad hoc pieces of analysis and reporting, as and when required by the department’s fee earners