DLA Piper

Commercial Finance Business Partner

DLA Piper

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Support to drive the international pricing agenda, ensuring alignment across markets to optimise profitability and maintain competitive positioning
  • Work closely with partners to design and propose innovative, value-driven fee arrangements, leveraging AI insights to optimise pricing strategies that meet both client and business objectives
  • Responsible for proactively following up on successful arrangements with partners at routine intervals in a consistent manner, assessing profitability and reviewing scope change against signed Terms of Business
  • Ensure timely follow-up with relevant stakeholders to ensure that internal systems accurately reflect agreed rate arrangements, maintaining data integrity and supporting compliance with pricing policies
  • Interpret requirements within RFPs to prepare tactical pricing proposals, with a focus on client strategy, type of advice and firm targets
  • Effectively manage and champion the use of internally developed matter budgeting tools
  • Raise awareness of client profitability across the firm’s matrix
  • Collaboration with both the wider Finance Business Partnering function and other client facing functions
  • Work closely with International Sector Heads on client strategy initiatives.

Requirements

  • A strong grounding and experience in Commercial Finance in a fast paced and dynamic professional services setting
  • Ability to analyse and model financial data and prepare concise “client ready” reporting and modelling to assist strategic discussions
  • Demonstrates the ability to manage multiple and evolving priorities in a fast-paced environment, effectively balancing competing deadlines while maintaining attention to detail and quality
  • Advanced user of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with SAP and Power BI desirable
  • Familiarity and experience with AI-driven tools such as Microsoft Copilot
  • Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal
  • Confident presence, and interpersonal skills that enable effective engagement and collaboration with the Firm's most senior Partners and Directors
  • Flexibility and able to adapt readily to changing requirements and circumstances
  • Dynamic problem-solving abilities; finding creative, commercial and pragmatic solutions
  • The ability to work well and operate comfortably within a partnership structure / culture
  • Ability to flex working style to collaborate across functions and geographies and adapt to change
  • Ability to build relationships with, and influence, senior stakeholders to ensure our commercial perspective is clearly communicated.
Benefits
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Inclusive culture
  • Commitment to accessibility

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
commercial financefinancial data analysispricing strategiestactical pricing proposalsdata integritybudgeting toolsreportingmodeling
Soft skills
communication skillsinterpersonal skillsproblem-solvingflexibilitycollaborationattention to detailability to manage prioritiesinfluence