We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Finance Business Partner (AFBP) to join our Bristol-based Finance Business Partnering team. We are a close-knit, collaborative team that supports the business in driving performance through insight, challenge, and strategic decision support. We are focused on continuous improvement and take pride in delivering high-quality outputs.
This role offers a varied and engaging experience, supporting financial planning, analysis, and business partnering activities across several sectors including Health, Insurance, Real Estate, International, and Corporate & Commercial. The successful candidate will develop professional skills and gain exposure to management reporting, cost analysis, and stakeholder engagement, with a view to progressing towards managing a cluster in due course.
Key responsibilities
- Assist Finance Business Partners in the preparation, testing, and population of budget and forecast templates.
- Produce and distribute weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial performance reports, including month-end reporting packs.
- Review and validate month-end data, ensuring accuracy of costs and commentary.
- Perform cost variance analysis and provide actionable insight.
- Maintain and monitor Timekeeper targets in 3E (the firm’s Practice Management System).
- Provide ad hoc analysis and decision support to the Finance Business Partnering team and key stakeholders.
- Assist in structuring and standardising ad hoc reporting as demand increases.
- Monitor and respond to queries in the FBP mailbox, escalating or re-directing as necessary.
- Build relationships with colleagues in Finance and wider Business Services to obtain relevant information and ensure timely responses.
- Continuously improve Excel and data handling capabilities.
Skills, knowledge and expertise
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills (e.g. PivotTables, VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, charts).
- Working knowledge of management accounting principles.
- Studying towards AAT, or part-qualified CIMA / ACCA (or equivalent). Accountancy graduates and Advanced AAT students will also be considered.
- Strong attention to detail with an analytical and questioning mindset.
- Positive attitude with a willingness to "roll up your sleeves" and get into the detail.
- Fast learner, capable of absorbing and applying new knowledge.
- Self-motivated, proactive problem-solver, and team player.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Organised and able to juggle multiple tasks and deadlines effectively.
- IT literate, with strong Excel skills. Experience with 3E is desirable but not essential.
About DAC Beachcroft
We are a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We are market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.
We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Lima, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Santiago, and Singapore plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.
At DAC Beachcroft we are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.
