We are looking for a commercially minded Finance Analyst to be the bridge between finance and IT within a fantastic professional services business with offices in central Bristol. Working closely with the IT leadership team, finance colleagues and key stakeholders across the business, you will help manage budgets, monitor expenditure and provide insightful analysis to support informed decision-making. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of finance, technology and business operations.

Key responsibilities will be to support the preparation, management and ongoing monitoring of the IT divisions annual budget and forecasts. Analyse actual expenditure against budget, running costs, contract costs, identifying variances, trends and areas requiring attention along with producing clear and insightful monthly management reports for IT and senior finance stakeholders. You’ll partner with the IT budget holders to understand spending, challenge assumptions and support effective financial management as well as track IT operating costs, technology investments, projects and supplier spend. Critically within this role you’ll assist with forecasting and scenario modelling to assess the financial impact of business and technology decisions and support month-end activities, including accruals, reconciliations and reporting.

You will be an analytical and collaborative finance professional who is deadline focused and who can translate financial information into clear, practical insight. You will have excellent attention to detail, be very motivated in building relationships and understanding business needs through questioning and foresight and be comfortable working with stakeholders who may not have a finance background.

Ideally you’ll have previous experience of supporting budget management in an IT, technology or professional services environment as would experience with project accounting, technology procurement or IT cost management. Systems skills will include advanced excel skills, Power BI and any other useful data tools.

If you’re a commercially focused finance professional looking for an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the financial management of a fantastic IT function, we would love to hear from you.This role comes with hybrid working where 2 office days a week are required.

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Do you have Law Firm Compliance Experience?

Compliance isn’t just about knowing the rules. It’s about knowing when to challenge, when to act, and how to help a business do the right thing with confidence. We’re looking for an experienced Compliance Team Leader with law firm experience to take ownership of a high-performing compliance function and play a key role in protecting the firm, its clients and its reputation.

You’ll lead and develop the compliance team, making sure regulatory requirements are not simply met, but embedded into the way the firm operates. You’ll be a trusted adviser to partners, lawyers and senior stakeholders – bringing sound judgement, commercial awareness and the confidence to ask the difficult questions when needed.

Your responsibilities will include:

Leading, coaching and developing the compliance team.

Overseeing day-to-day compliance activity, policies and controls.

Advising lawyers and the wider business on regulatory and risk matters.

Monitoring regulatory developments and translating them into practical action.

Supporting AML, KYC, sanctions, conflicts and other relevant compliance processes.

Managing compliance reviews, investigations and escalations.

Identifying emerging risks and recommending effective solutions.

Working closely with senior leadership, risk, legal and operational teams.

You’ll ideally bring strong compliance experience within a law firm or professional services environment.Previous experience leading, supervising or managing a compliance team. Excellent knowledge of legal-sector regulatory and risk requirements and the confidence to advise and challenge senior stakeholders. Strong judgement and an ability to handle sensitive or complex issues and have practical, commercially minded approach to compliance.

Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

This isn’t a role where you’ll simply maintain a compliance checklist. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the function, influence senior decision-makers and make a visible difference to how the firm manages risk. If you’re a compliance professional who understands the realities of working in a law firm, enjoys solving difficult problems and is ready to lead from the front, we’d like to hear from you.

Ready to make compliance count? Apply now. (This role can be based in Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow or Edinburgh. Hybrid working that requires 2 office based days)

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Do you have credit control experience and are you open to working in a 12 month fixed term contract? Can you work in the Emersons Green area of Bristol 2 days a week on a hybrid working basis? If this sounds like what you’re looking for then we’d be keen to hear from you as due to growth our client is looking to bolster their credit control function with several credit controllers to help with an ever increasing workload. You will be someone who communicates well both on the phone and on email and someone who is very organised with excellent attention to detail. The credit control work is not heavy debt collection it’s understanding queries, being empathetic with vulnerable customers and at times problem solving so a calm approach is what’s required. This role will be working within a really friendly and supportive team so if you enjoy working in collections, have strong communication skills and are comfortable working in a fixed term contract basis that could become more long term then please get in touch through application and shortlisted applicants will be contacted with more details.

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We’re looking for a Finance Business Partner to join a high-performing finance team within a leading large business with fantastic offices in central Bristol. This finance team shapes decisions and doesn’t just report them so this is a role for someone who enjoys getting beyond the numbers – understanding what drives performance, challenging thinking, and turning financial insight into decisions that genuinely change the direction of decisions.

You won’t be sitting on the sidelines waiting for month-end. You’ll work directly with senior commercial and operational leaders, helping them understand where the business is going, what is driving it, and what should be done next. You’ll have a top 10 accounting background and a keen interest to break into finance business partnering utilising your excellent communication skills that allow you to become a trusted financial adviser to key business areas, owning the relationship with senior stakeholders and bringing commercial insight to everything from strategic planning and investment decisions to performance improvement and forecasting.

Your responsibilities will include:

*Partnering with senior leaders to drive performance, profitability and sustainable growth.

*Turning complex financial data into clear, compelling commercial insight.

*Challenging assumptions and asking the questions others might not.

*Identifying risks, opportunities and the financial consequences of strategic decisions.

*Building business cases for major investments and transformation programmes.

*Improving the quality, visibility and usability of management information.

*Supporting monthly performance reviews – moving the conversation from “what happened?” to “what do we do about it?”

This isn’t a finance role where success is measured by how quickly you can produce the numbers. We’re looking for someone who is naturally curious about the business behind the numbers. Someone who can walk into a room with a senior stakeholder, spot the story hidden inside a set of figures, and confidently say: “Here’s what I think is happening. Here’s why. And here’s what I think we should do.”

You’ll be exposed to senior decision-makers, commercially significant projects and a broad range of challenges – giving you the platform to accelerate your career. You’ll be joining a finance function that takes development seriously and have access to senior leaders, exposure to strategic projects and the opportunity to build experience across a complex FTSE 100 environment. Whether your ambition is to become a finance leader, move into commercial leadership, or develop into a broader strategic role, this position is designed to give you the experience and visibility to take that next step, and yes – Bristol is a pretty good place to do it.

If you’re an ambitious finance professional who wants to move beyond reporting the numbers and start influencing what happens next, we’d love to hear from you.

Bring us your commercial brain, your curiosity and your willingness to challenge. The role will give you the scale, exposure and opportunity to make an impact.

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We’re partnering with a highly respected, forward-thinking law firm to recruit an exceptional Billing Manager to lead a talented team of billing professionals from their Central London office. This is an opportunity to join a firm with an outstanding reputation, where finance is recognised as a strategic partner to the business and where your expertise will have a genuine impact. You’ll be at the centre of the firm’s revenue function, working closely with partners, senior stakeholders and the wider finance leadership team to ensure an efficient, accurate and commercially focused billing operation.

As Billing Manager, you’ll inspire, develop and support a team of eight, creating a high-performing culture built on collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.

Your responsibilities will include:

*Leading, coaching and developing the billing team to deliver an exceptional service.

*Overseeing the end-to-end billing process across multiple practice areas.

*Working closely with partners and fee earners to resolve complex billing queries and drive timely invoicing.

*Ensuring compliance with client billing guidelines and e-billing requirements.

*Monitoring work in progress (WIP), billing performance and key revenue metrics.

*Producing management information and identifying trends to improve performance.

*Reviewing and enhancing billing processes, controls and efficiencies.

*Building strong relationships across the firm as a trusted adviser on billing and revenue matters.

As an applicant you’ll already have experience of leading or supervising a legal billing function and will enjoy developing people just as much as delivering results. You’ll have a thorough understanding of legal billing processes, WIP and revenue management along with strong knowledge of e-billing platforms and billing systems. With excellent stakeholder management skills you’ll have the confidence and personality to work alongside senior partners offering a proactive, solutions-focused approach and a continuous improvement mindset. You’ll be someone who has outstanding organisational skills and exceptional attention to detail and in return you’ll have the opportunity to shape a critical business function within one of the UK’s most respected law firms. You’ll join an organisation that genuinely invests in its people, values innovation and collaboration, and offers a supportive environment where your ideas are encouraged and your contribution is recognised. If you’re an experienced Billing Manager looking for your next leadership challenge in London, we’d love to hear from you.

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We’re partnering with a highly respected, forward-thinking law firm to recruit an exceptional Billing Manager to lead a talented team of billing professionals from their Bristol office. This is an opportunity to join a firm with an outstanding reputation, where finance is recognised as a strategic partner to the business and where your expertise will have a genuine impact. You’ll be at the centre of the firm’s revenue function, working closely with partners, senior stakeholders and the wider finance leadership team to ensure an efficient, accurate and commercially focused billing operation.

As Billing Manager, you’ll inspire, develop and support a team of eight, creating a high-performing culture built on collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.

Your responsibilities will include:

*Leading, coaching and developing the billing team to deliver an exceptional service.

*Overseeing the end-to-end billing process across multiple practice areas.

*Working closely with partners and fee earners to resolve complex billing queries and drive timely invoicing.

*Ensuring compliance with client billing guidelines and e-billing requirements.

*Monitoring work in progress (WIP), billing performance and key revenue metrics.

*Producing management information and identifying trends to improve performance.

*Reviewing and enhancing billing processes, controls and efficiencies.

*Building strong relationships across the firm as a trusted adviser on billing and revenue matters.

As an applicant you’ll already have experience of leading or supervising a legal billing function and will enjoy developing people just as much as delivering results. You’ll have a thorough understanding of legal billing processes, WIP and revenue management along with strong knowledge of e-billing platforms and billing systems. With excellent stakeholder management skills you’ll have the confidence and personality to work alongside senior partners offering a proactive, solutions-focused approach and a continuous improvement mindset. You’ll be someone who has outstanding organisational skills and exceptional attention to detail and in return you’ll have the opportunity to shape a critical business function within one of the UK’s most respected law firms. You’ll join an organisation that genuinely invests in its people, values innovation and collaboration, and offers a supportive environment where your ideas are encouraged and your contribution is recognised. If you’re an experienced Billing Manager looking for your next leadership challenge in Bristol, we’d love to hear from you.

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Are you a hands on finance manager able to oversee a small team? Are you happy to be the most senior finance person on site reporting to the operations controller? Are you happy to be based in the office 5 days a week? If this sounds like you then we’d be keen to hear from you as our client is looking to bolster the finance function with someone who can ensure all the transactional elements of finance are carried out on time. Day to day you’ll be getting involved with reconciliations, query resolution, helping with purchase and sales ledger processing, overseeing credit control and generally carrying out good financial housekeeping all the while supporting and being the escalation point for the accounts assistants. This role would suit an assistant accountant looking for the next step up or an experienced finance manager looking for a hands on role. If you’re someone who has strong people skills, enjoys variety and has the ability to multi task a workload of various levels of complexity then we’d be keen to hear from you. This role is based on site 5 days a week and will start as soon as you’re available.

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Are you a finance analyst looking for a new challenge? Do you enjoy interrogating financial information to create actionable insight? Can you work in central Bristol 3 days a week? If this sounds like you then this commercial finance analyst role will be right up your street. Working for an award winning professional services firm who are based under a 10 minute walk from Bristol Temple Meads this role will support the commercial reporting team in providing analysis around forecasting, budgeting, trending, market information, growth patterns and pricing. We are looking for someone who likes to create rather than just maintain as this company likes people to have autonomy and use their skills in their own way rather than dictating actions. This organisation are really flexible around family and outside work commitments as long as the 35 hours a week are completed and deadlines are hit. If you’re an analytical finance professional with strong excel skills and possibly some experience with other data manipulation tools then we’d be keen to hear from you. This role offers hybrid working, flexible start and finish times and a brilliant culture so if you’re interested in learning more please apply through application and shortlisted applicants will be contacted with further details.

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Are you an experienced purchase ledger professional? Do you have excellent attention to detail? Can you work in the Emersons Green area of Bristol 2 days a week and at home for the other 3 days? Would you be interested in a 12 month fixed term contract? If the answer to these questions is yes then we have a great role working within a supportive and friendly finance team that might just be of interest to you. This role will help process invoices within a busy accounts payable team and will ensure smooth and timely payments to suppliers. You’ll get involved in reconciliation work, problem solving and you’ll look to process invoices as quickly and as efficiently as possible. You’ll need to be good around systems and there are several to gather and transfer information from so if you’ve got good administration skills and are able to multitask, have good numeracy skills and have the ability to ask questions to solve problems then we’d be keen to hear from you. With excellent benefits, free parking and hybrid working this is an excellent and very secure company to work for.

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Are you an experienced Sales Ledger professional? Do you have excellent attention to detail? Can you work in the Emersons Green area of Bristol 2 days a week and at home for the other 3 days? Would you be interested in a 12 month fixed term contract that could become permanent? If the answer to these questions is yes then we have a great role working within a supportive and friendly finance team that might just be of interest to you. This role will help raise invoices within a busy accounts receivable team and will ensure smooth and timely invoicing to suppliers. You’ll get involved in reconciliation work, problem solving and you’ll look to ensure the invoicing process is carried out as quickly and as efficiently as possible. You’ll need to be good around systems as there are several to gather and transfer information from so if you’ve got good administration skills and are able to multitask, have good numeracy skills and have the ability to ask questions to solve problems then we’d be keen to hear from you. With excellent benefits, free parking and hybrid working this is an excellent and very secure company to work for.

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