Overview
A global industry-leading law firm is currently seeking to appoint an FP&A Analyst to join its Hong Kong team.
The FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) function provides high-quality advice and relevant information to the decision-makers, ensuring compliance with regulations and efficient delivery of services.
This role will work with the regional CFOs as a trusted advisor, providing sound financial advice based on extensive experience of the financial, commercial and operational workings of practice groups within 4 regions in APAC and the wider firm. The purpose of the role is to enhance and develop the practice groups’ profitability, by making and supporting informed and intelligent financial decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Ability to critically analyse and evaluate data at a macro level to provide insight and advice to the partnership
- Work collaboratively with CFOs, partners & senior stakeholders on initiatives intended to improve information delivery, profitability and decision-making
- Build and maintain models using complex data sets
- Design, prepare and deliver of financial presentations
- Prepare partner-facing reports including written commentaries
- Provide analysis using sophisticated data sets to understand underlying profitability, and potential growth opportunities, considering FX, market, cost changes and other impacts
- Ability to understand the wider business issues and to develop new ideas which will add value, based on a full understanding of the firm’s critical success factors
- Assist in coordinating Greater China regional activities (e.g. budget, equity planning, investment/business planning), working with multiple offices and practice groups
- Work closely with BD and CRM on client-related initiatives around profitable income growth, client incentives and relationships
- Provide analyses of clients / matter profitability
- Coordinate Greater China regional responses for global client rate agreements
- Ad-hoc support to the Greater China CFOs at the regional level
Key Relationships
- Greater China CFOs and Greater China finance teams
- Group Finance team
- Partners in the region
- Other support professionals in the region
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Ability to influence at the highest level as a credible, collaborative and commercial individual
- Outstanding analytical skills & knowledge of economic factors impacting professional services
- Excellent communicator; able to explain complex issues to financial or non-financial stakeholders
- A methodical and meticulous approach to work
- Ability to take a business question, probe, data mine, interpret the data and make recommendation
- Outstanding interpersonal skills and inquisitive.
- Demonstrate a hands-on approach and success in working in a team based environment
- Results driven; having a proactive, goal orientated approach to decision making
- Able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines and targets
- Strong IT system skills
- Qualified Accountant
- Five or more years’ experience in professional service industry
