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Finance Director
Permanent - Law Firm
Location: Cambridge
When required: September 2025
Business description:-
We are a long established leading full service law firm based in central Cambridge. Seeking to appoint a Financial Director/Financial Controller on a part time/full time basis, initially three days a week basis to replace retiring FD.
Role description:
Primary responsibilities:
- Experienced, qualified accountant and/or FC / FD
- Overseeing staff pension scheme
- Ensuring records at Companies House are up to date and effect any changes required
- Reviewing and liaising with insurers in respect of building, key person insurance and any other such policies
- Report to the Partners as appropriate
- Overall responsibility for finance functions of the Firm
- Management of accounts team (currently admin assistant and finance manager)
- Maintain well developed system of accurate monthly management accounts
- Manage key commercial contracts within the finance function remit eg leasing agreements
- Manage relationships with banks, auditors, accountants and other parties
- Management of working capital
- Ensuring compliance with all regulatory and statutory obligations - including compliance with SRA rules, PAYE, P35, P11D and VAT reporting and submission
- Manage relations with firm's tax accountants to ensure partnership tax payments are made in January and July
- Preparation of annual financial budgets
- Cash flow forecasting and management
- Preparation of annual financial accounts
- Contribution to cost control and cost monitoring
- Support for ad hoc analysis work -eg business opportunities
- Providing support and guidance to all team leaders (and fee earners) covering the cash cycle, estimating, recording time, interim and final billing, cash recovery
- Ability to post transactions and competent in double entry book keeping
- Support growing COP team with payments
- Office based 3 days (whether part time or full time)
- If part time - ability to cover full time during holidays of accounts team
Experience and Skills required
- Ideally minimum of 5 years in a professional services business
- Experience of working in the Legal Sector is preferable
- Knowledge of Sage and payroll useful
- A strong technical accountant with a commercial flair
- Team player with strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to explain accounts to Partners in plain language
- Good IT skills - particularly Excel
Salary: £80-100k per annum full time equivalent plus pension, healthcare, flexible working.
