Commercial Accountant

About the role:

We have a great opportunity for a Commercial Accountant to join our Commercial Finance team based in Birmingham. As a Commercial Accountant you will provide financial support and analysis to the Commercial Finance Manager (CFM) and legal groups (including to partners, fee earners (FEs) and PAs) covering all aspects of financial performance and control, and ownership of the group's P&L. The role is primarily intended to support the CFM with respect to one of the UK's legal groups.

The core elements of this role will focus on month end reporting, budgeting and forecasting, pricing and profitability support alongside other ad hoc financial analysis.

This role sits within our Finance team who in 2019 won numerous awards at the West Midlands Finance Awards, these include "Finance Team of the year 2019", "Excellence in Diversity" and "Business Innovation".

About you:

We are looking for someone who is ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified demonstrating strong financial and commercial acumen supported by strong analytical and financial modelling skills. Within this role you will be communicating with various individuals across the firm at all levels and therefore will need to present yourself as a professional, credible and confident individual with the ability to deal appropriately with people at all levels. To this role you will bring excellent communication and influencing skills with a motivated attitude and willingness to learn and develop demonstrating advanced excel skills and technical knowledge.

Desired Requirements

• Previous experience of working in a law firm or professional services organisation
• Use of, and familiarity with, IBM Cognos TM1 (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 top 10 best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 23 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working, with up to 50% remote working available.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• 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

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and 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 WLG we 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 everyone's 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 meg.astley@gowlingwlg.com

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