Finance Director

Permanent - Law Firm

Location: Cambridge

When required: September 2025

Business description:-

We are a long established leading full service law firm based in central Cambridge. Seeking to appoint a Financial Director/Financial Controller on a part time/full time basis, initially three days a week basis to replace retiring FD.

Role description:

Primary responsibilities:

• Experienced, qualified accountant and/or FC / FD
• Overseeing staff pension scheme
• Ensuring records at Companies House are up to date and effect any changes required
• Reviewing and liaising with insurers in respect of building, key person insurance and any other such policies

• Report to the Partners as appropriate
• Overall responsibility for finance functions of the Firm
• Management of accounts team (currently admin assistant and finance manager)
• Maintain well developed system of accurate monthly management accounts
• Manage key commercial contracts within the finance function remit eg leasing agreements
• Manage relationships with banks, auditors, accountants and other parties
• Management of working capital
• Ensuring compliance with all regulatory and statutory obligations - including compliance with SRA rules, PAYE, P35, P11D and VAT reporting and submission
• Manage relations with firm's tax accountants to ensure partnership tax payments are made in January and July
• Preparation of annual financial budgets
• Cash flow forecasting and management
• Preparation of annual financial accounts
• Contribution to cost control and cost monitoring
• Support for ad hoc analysis work -eg business opportunities

• Providing support and guidance to all team leaders (and fee earners) covering the cash cycle, estimating, recording time, interim and final billing, cash recovery
• Ability to post transactions and competent in double entry book keeping
• Support growing COP team with payments
• Office based 3 days (whether part time or full time)
• If part time - ability to cover full time during holidays of accounts team

Experience and Skills required

• Ideally minimum of 5 years in a professional services business
• Experience of working in the Legal Sector is preferable
• Knowledge of Sage and payroll useful
• A strong technical accountant with a commercial flair
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to explain accounts to Partners in plain language
• Good IT skills - particularly Excel

Salary: £80-100k per annum full time equivalent plus pension, healthcare, flexible working.