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DWF

Finance Manager

DWF

Finance Manager supporting financial analysis and reporting in a growing legal services business. Role involves essential FP&A tasks and collaboration across finance and business.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeManchester • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Support the delivery of high-quality financial analysis, reporting and insight across central costs and broader Group activities
  • Take ownership of detailed overhead analysis, providing visibility of performance against budget and forecast
  • Support planning processes through robust evaluation of historical performance, current run rates and emerging risks and opportunities
  • Contribute to the production of board-level reporting and performance packs, delivering clear and actionable commentary to senior stakeholders
  • Conduct ad hoc analysis including scenario modelling, business cases and performance investigations
  • Drive improvements in reporting, data quality and processes
  • Build relationships across Finance and the wider business, ensuring alignment between actuals, forecasts and plans
  • Support better commercial decision-making

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
  • Considerable experience in FP&A, financial analysis or reporting within a complex organisation
  • Advanced Excel skills with the ability to work with large data sets
  • Analytical with high attention to detail
  • Proven ability to communicate financial insight clearly to non-finance stakeholders
  • Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage deadlines in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience in central costs, overhead analysis or group-level reporting (Desirable)
  • Exposure to budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning cycles (Desirable)
  • Experience producing board or senior leadership reporting packs (Desirable)
  • Background in process improvement, data quality or reporting transformation (Desirable)
  • Experience supporting business cases and investment analysis (Desirable)
  • Experience in professional services or a similar commercially driven environment (Desirable)

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial analysisreportingoverhead analysisbudgetingforecastingscenario modellingdata qualityprocess improvementExcelinvestment analysis
Soft Skills
analyticalattention to detailcommunicationorganisationaldeadline managementrelationship buildingcommercial decision-making
Certifications
ACAACCACIMA