Financial Director / Financial Controller – Cambridge – Part-time or Full-time

Join a long-established, leading full-service law firm based in central Cambridge. The firm is seeking a qualified Financial Director or Financial Controller to take over from the retiring FD.

The role is offered on a part-time (minimum 3 days per week) or full time basis - with the flexibility to increase to full-time if preferred.

What's on offer:

• Competitive salary aligned with market rates
• Private healthcare
• Generous holiday allowance
• Death in service cover
• Pension scheme
• Hybrid working 
• Supportive, collaborative working environment

Primary responsibilities:

• Experienced, qualified accountant and/or financial controller
• 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
• 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
• 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

• Ideally minimum of 5 years in a professional services business
• Experience of working in the Legal Sector is preferable but not essential
• 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