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About the Role

This is a true business partnering position responsible for driving financial insight, influencing decision-making, and delivering forward-looking analysis across the firm’s practice groups. The role goes beyond traditional reporting and analysis, with a strong emphasis on proactivity, commerciality, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring finance plays a central role in shaping business performance.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to Practice Group Heads and partners, providing clear, commercially focused financial insight.
• Proactively identify risks and opportunities, challenging and influencing decision-making where appropriate.
• Deliver forward-looking, insight-led analysis to support revenue growth, profitability and strategic priorities.
• Provide analysis across key drivers including utilisation, realisation, pricing, working capital and cost performance.
• Lead financial planning cycles, including budgets, forecasts and long-term plans.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure plans are robust, aligned to strategy and grounded in commercial reality.
• Continuously improve forecasting accuracy and scenario planning capability.
• Develop and challenge business cases for investments, lateral hires and strategic initiatives.
• Support post-investment reviews and tracking of returns.
• Provide clear, data-driven recommendations to senior stakeholders and committees.
• Drive improvements in reporting, focusing on automation, efficiency and clarity of insight.
• Ensure data integrity, consistency and usability across reporting outputs.
• Leverage AI and advanced analytics tools to automate routine reporting, generate deeper insights, and enhance forecasting.
• Identify opportunities to embed AI into finance processes and decision-making.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ ACCA/ CIMA or equivalent).
• Strong experience in financial planning, analysis and modelling.
• Experience in a professional services environment preferred.
• Highly proactive and self-driven – identifies issues and opportunities without prompting.
• Outstanding communication skills – able to clearly explain financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal skills – confident engaging with senior stakeholders and partners and building new relationships.
• Commercially minded with a strong understanding of how financial drivers link together.
• Detail-orientated with high standards of accuracy.
• Collaborative and team-oriented, while also able to work independently.

Skills

• Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability.
• Strong ability to analyse complex datasets and translate into insight.
• Experience with financial systems and reporting tools (e.g. Power BI).
• Interest in, and willingness to adopt, AI and data tools to enhance finance outputs.

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Level 4

Education Level

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ ACCA/ CIMA or equivalent)

Benefits

• Competitive package including bonuses dependant on role/level
• Private medical insurance
• Pension contribution
• Global skills academy providing excellent learning opportunities
• Range of social and sports committees
• Summer and winter parties
• Monthly get togethers
• Range of diversity networks
• Support of the art community

About the Company

• Simmons & Simmons has a collaborative, open and non-hierarchical culture where everyone is treated with respect and dignity, and the wellbeing of people is paramount.
• Dynamic minds work as one integrated team, partnering with leading organisations on inspirational and thought-provoking projects.
• Encourages an enquiring mind and sharing ideas that drive the firm forward.
• Offers innovative learning and development opportunities.
• Proud to rank as a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality, a Stonewall Top Global Employer, and a Top 75 Employer for Social Mobility.
• Has recently introduced a Strategic Advisory Council which is a mix of associates and business services who will propose strategic initiatives.
• In-house generative AI tool, Percy, won the ‘Innovation in Automation and AI Tools’ category at the 2024 FT Innovative Lawyers Europe Awards.
• Commended in The Times Best Law Firms 2026 across three categories: construction, employment, and intellectual property.

Equal Opportunity

• Committed to fostering equality, diversity and inclusion within the firm and ensuring equal employment opportunities.
• Upholds equal opportunities, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity, marital status, or pregnancy, including maternity and paternity.
• Ensures fair treatment during recruitment and selection processes for those who are serving or have served in the armed forces, along with their families.
• Accommodates requests for flexible working arrangements whenever possible.
• Makes roles accessible to individuals with diverse abilities.
• Encourages applications even if not every single requirement is met, seeking passionate and eager individuals.
• Reserves the right to close the vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.