We are currently recruiting for aFinance Analystto join our Financial Planning & Analysis team on a permanent basis in Bristol. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing business facing team at Burges Salmon.

As aFinance Analyst, you will become a key member of the commercial finance team, providing fundamental support to the finance business partners and Head of Commercial Finance. You will be delivering real time input and analysis all driven with the key business goals in mind. You will be able to deliver financial information, analysis and advice that will make a genuine difference to decision making and financial performance across the legal teams.

What you'll be doing:

• Support the business planning processes, including the annual budget and forecast
• Assist in the production of management accounts with accompanying commentary, explaining variances to budget and forecast
• Analyse and interpret large volumes of data to show trends and support business cases, which may include scenario modelling
• Provide support to the Pricing Business Partner on major pitches, tenders and contract renewals
• Become a proficient user of our Pricing, Budgeting and Matter Management tool
• Provide support to the Head of Commercial Finance and Finance/Pricing Business Partners on ad-hoc tasks

You will be working closely with the Finance Business Partners and so excellent accuracy and attention to detail with the ability to work with complex financial information will be key in this role. You will be highly motivated to develop a career in finance with a view to studying for a professional qualification. Experience in working in a finance team of some capacity is desirable but not essential.

About Burges Salmon

Our six core values Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are delighted to have been named RollOnFriday's 'Best Law Firm to Work At' 2024, for the third year in a row, and also named as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2023 for the second year running. Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We're committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

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