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About the Role
This is a hands-on financial planning and analysis role with broad exposure across the business. You will work closely with practice group leaders, partners, executives and department heads, helping them understand financial performance, manage costs and plan for future growth.
Responsibilities
- Assist in developing and managing budgets, rolling forecasts and reforecasts.
- Build and maintain financial models covering revenue, expenses, cash flow and headcount.
- Analyse actual results against budgets and forecasts, identifying trends, risks and opportunities.
- Support cash flow forecasting and working capital planning.
- Analyse practice group financial performance, revenue, profitability and costs.
- Monitor disbursement expenditure and develop budgets across practice groups.
- Analyse WIP, write-offs, realisation and recovery rates to identify opportunities for improved financial performance.
- Analyse file velocity and operational performance, providing insights to improve productivity and outcomes.
- Support the development of financial KPIs and performance measures.
- Partner with practice leaders and senior management to provide financial insights and recommendations.
- Prepare monthly management reports, dashboards and KPI reporting packs.
- Provide detailed cost analysis and identify opportunities to improve financial performance.
- Support business cases, investment decisions, salary reviews and workforce planning.
- Translate complex financial information into clear, practical recommendations for non-finance stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to improve financial reporting, data quality and forecasting processes.
- Support the development of automated reporting and dashboards, including Power BI.
- Contribute to continuous improvement across finance systems and processes.
Requirements
- Previous experience working with one of the Big Four accounting firms: Deloitte, EY, KPMG or PwC.
- 2–5 years' experience in audit, financial analysis, FP&A, commercial finance or a similar analytical finance role.
- Strong financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis skills.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience working with large data sets.
- Experience with Power BI, SQL or other reporting and data visualisation tools.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to present financial insights to senior stakeholders.
- Confidence building relationships and constructively challenging business leaders.
- A proactive approach, strong attention to detail and a continuous improvement mindset.
- Experience within a law firm or professional services environment, particularly with WIP, disbursements, realisation and recovery, would be advantageous but is not essential.
Skills
- Financial modelling
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Variance analysis
- Advanced Excel
- Power BI
- SQL
- Reporting
- Data visualisation
- Analytical
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Stakeholder management
Location
- Sydney CBD
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Hybrid working arrangements
Experience Level
- 2-5 years
Education Level
- CA or CPA qualification (desirable)
Benefits
- Birthday day off
- Hybrid working arrangements, including up to two days working from home following the qualifying period.
- Two additional wellbeing days each year.
- Paid parental leave.
- Novated leasing options.
- Regular social events, Friday night drinks and our annual Christmas and Melbourne Cup celebrations.
- Family Day at Christmas.
- Ongoing learning, development and career progression opportunities.
- A collaborative culture with access to experienced and supportive leaders.
About the Company
- Law Partners is Australia's largest specialist personal injury law firm.
- Our mission is to help more Australians get the compensation they deserve, and we're continuing to grow and invest in the people, systems and capabilities that support that ambition.