Job Description

The Opportunity:
The Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst will support key financial planning, analysis, and reporting activities, contributing to the delivery of accurate insights and actionable recommendations that inform business strategy and enhance financial performance.
Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Creating and running financial reports, ensuring robust testing of new reports, analytics and information.
• Reconciling and validating data sets and information for partner financial reports.
• Supporting the financial analysis on Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) to provide data driven insights to aid decision making across a wide range of financial outcomes.
• Researching and collating information for budget purposes, including compiling prior year analysis for comparative purposes.
• Contributing towards continuous improvement opportunities, including streamlining and documenting simple reporting tasks for transition to our shared service.

This is a full-time, 12 month FTC role based in either our Glasgow or London office with hybrid working.
More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site
About you:
The successful candidate will have:

• Accounting or finance background with budgeting and forecasting experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
• Proactive and organised working style and the ability to manage priorities to tight deadlines.
• Experience using financial and management information systems.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including advanced functions (e.g. pivot tables, lookups, financial modelling).

What makes Ashurst a great place to work?
We offer you all the things you should expect from an international law firm, some of which include:

• competitive remuneration with the flexibility to reward high performance;
• flexible working;
• corporate health plans;
• a global professional development offering for all employees; and
• an industry-leading programme that celebrates diversity and inclusion.

We are committed to delivering positive impacts to our communities through our Social Impact programme.
We aim to recruit, retain and promote the best people from the widest possible talent pools. We are committed to offering a safe and welcoming environment for all employees to ensure they are supported to work at their best.
Beyond this, what sets Ashurst apart from others is our global strength, our drive to innovate and collaborate, and our commitment to excellence. It is these values that make Ashurst a unique place to work.
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