Head Of Commercial Finance

This is an opportunity to shape and build the Commercial Finance function within one of the UK's fastest-growing regional law firms. Flint Bishop has ambitious growth plans, a strong track record of success, and a leadership team committed to investing in the people, systems and insight required to support the next stage of its journey.

As Head of Commercial Finance, you will play a pivotal role in helping the firm scale successfully while maintaining a strong focus on profitability, performance and financial discipline. This is far more than a traditional reporting role. We are looking for an outstanding commercial finance leader who can transform financial information into meaningful insight, influence decision-making, and help drive business performance across the firm.

You will be responsible for creating confidence in a single version of the truth, ensuring that leaders have access to timely, accurate and trusted information, while translating complex financial data into practical actions that non-financial audiences can understand and act upon.

Reporting directly to the CFO, you will lead and develop the Commercial Finance team and help shape its future direction. The function is still in its relative infancy, creating a unique opportunity for the successful candidate to build capability, establish best practice, improve processes, and create a team that becomes a trusted and influential partner to leaders across the business.

You will work closely with the CEO, CFO, Heads of Department and other senior stakeholders, providing challenge, insight and commercial support across a broad range of strategic priorities, including financial planning, forecasting, investment decisions, acquisitions, profitability improvement and long-term growth.

We are looking for someone who enjoys building as much as managing. Someone who can combine strong analytical capability with commercial judgement, communicate confidently with stakeholders at every level of the organisation, and inspire a team to evolve from producers of reports into strategic advisors and influencers of business performance.

For the right individual, this represents an opportunity to join a growing business at an exciting stage of its development, build a high-performing function, and play a central role in shaping the future success of the firm.

Reporting to:
Chief Financial Officer
Management of:
Two Business Partners, one FP&A Analyst

Location:

Derby Head Office with travel to other offices as required

Contract:

Full-time, permanent. Monday to Friday, 9.15am-5.30pm, with a one-hour unpaid lunch break.

Lead, manage and develop the Commercial Finance team, setting clear objectives, standards and accountabilities.

Allocate work across the team, balance planned priorities with urgent requests and protect capacity for high-value analysis.

Create an effective operating rhythm for reporting, forecasting, departmental reviews, action tracking and follow-up.

Cultivate the Commercial Finance team's technical and commercial capabilities.

Develop succession plans required for the long-term success of the function, ensuring individuals are supported to grow and the team can scale with the firm's ambitions.

Own and lead the annual budget, periodic forecast and longer-term financial planning processes.

Identify risks and opportunities and provide the CFO with a consolidated firm-wide view.

Own the monthly financial performance cycle, ensuring results are understood, actions are agreed and delivery is followed through.

Maintain clear visibility of performance against budget, forecast, strategic priorities and agreed improvement plans.

Set clear timetables, assumptions and quality standards for planning activities, coordinating and constructively challenging submissions from Business Partners and operational leaders

Act as the senior point of contact for firm-wide commercial finance matters and lead complex, sensitive or cross-firm assignments.

Ensure the team provides practical challenge and insight to the business, focusing on decisions and actions rather than report production.

Analyse the drivers of revenue, profitability, pricing, utilisation, recovery, resourcing, matter economics and cost performance.

Lead or oversee commercial modelling, scenario analysis, investment appraisal, tenders, pricing decisions and business cases.

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