Finance and Operations Manager Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced finance professional to join our team as a Finance and Operations Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing the full finance cycle, driving operational excellence, and leading a small finance/admin team.
About the Role
* Oversight of the full finance cycle, including financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
* Leadership of a small finance/admin team, shaping performance metrics, and spearheading process-improvement projects.
* Collaboration with senior stakeholders to drive operational excellence and strategic decision-making.
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified accountant with 3+ years PQE or part-qualified with 5+ years hands-on finance/practice-management responsibility in a solicitors firm or other professional-services environment.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Finance Management: Prepare monthly management accounts with detailed utilisation, WIP & AR analysis, weekly cash-flow forecasting, and bank/BS reconciliations.
2. Process Improvement: Oversee day-to-day transaction processing, VAT/VIES returns, and ensure compliance with Law Society Solicitors Accounts Regulations.
3. Support year-end audit and ad-hoc financial projects, provide data-driven insight to Partners for strategic decisions, and lead and develop a finance assistant & support staff.
4. Liaise with auditors, outsourced IT, and case-management providers, input to annual budgeting, reforecasting, and fee-earner target-setting, and support HR processes: recruitment, salary & bonus reviews, performance management.
Requirements:
* Qualified Accountant (ACA / ACCA / CPA) with 3+ years PQE or part-qualified with 5+ years hands-on finance/practice-management responsibility in a solicitors firm or other professional-services environment.
* Advanced Excel skills; comfortable manipulating large data sets and presenting clear MI.
* Proven experience with solicitors accounts, budgeting, forecasting, and credit control.
* Confident communicator able to influence senior stakeholders and translate complex financial information into plain English.
* Track record in HR support, resource planning, and performance management.
* Strong organisational skills and the agility to juggle multiple deadlines.
* Familiarity with Practice Evolve or similar practice-management systems (desirable).
What We Offer:
* Competitive base salary €65,000–€95,000.
* Discretionary bonus, pension, and comprehensive benefits package.
* Direct influence on operational strategy within a high-growth office.
* Collaborative culture that values innovation and continuous improvement.
* Clear progression pathway to senior operational leadership.