About the team

Central to our success as a Firm are of course our talented lawyers, but they couldn't achieve their results without the ongoing support from our Finance Team who have an essential role to play in growing the business and maintaining our financial performance.  At Womble Bond Dickinson, we know that great commercial decisions are driven by great insight.  We're looking for a Commercial Finance Manager to join our team and help shape the commercial success of the firm.

About the role

This is a highly collaborative role, sitting at the heart of the business and partnering closely with Business Group Heads, Partners and senior stakeholders. You'll bring together financial expertise, commercial awareness and strong relationship-building skills to help drive profitability, support strategic decision-making and influence the way we price and deliver our services.

You'll act as the key finance contact for your allocated Business Group, developing a deep understanding of its performance, opportunities and challenges. Whether you're supporting Partners with pricing and fee negotiations, leading forecasting discussions, reviewing client profitability or presenting commercial insights to senior leaders, you'll play a pivotal role in helping the business make informed decisions.  A significant part of the role will focus on pricing strategy. Working closely with Partners, you'll help scope matters, model different approaches and provide clear, data-driven recommendations that balance client expectations with commercial objectives. You'll also help embed best practice across the firm, using performance data and emerging technologies to continually enhance our pricing capability.

Alongside this, you'll lead budgeting and forecasting activity for your Business Group, helping stakeholders understand performance, identify opportunities and develop meaningful action plans. You'll be comfortable challenging constructively, influencing senior stakeholders and translating complex financial information into practical, commercial insights.

About you

We're looking for someone who has built their career within commercial finance, business partnering or pricing, ideally within a law firm or professional services environment. You'll bring strong analytical skills, experience of financial modelling and a genuine interest in understanding what drives business performance. Just as importantly, you'll be someone who enjoys building trusted relationships and working collaboratively with colleagues at all levels.   While a professional accounting qualification would be beneficial, we're equally interested in hearing from individuals who can demonstrate significant relevant experience. Advanced Excel skills are essential, and experience with tools such as Power BI or Qlik would be an advantage.

To be successful in this role, you'll need as minimum:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a commercial finance/business partnering role, within a law firm or professional services organisation.
• Significant pricing experience within a law firm or professional services organisation.
• Proven ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Expertise in financial modelling.
• Proficient in Excel. Power BI and Qlik skills are a plus.

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel, emphasising that we're more than just suits!

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working.

Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, neurodiversity, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about DEI at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page. Please also let us know if you need this job advert or the application form in a different format.

We will offer an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response to this question is only used for this purpose, is only visible to the recruitment team and is not used for data monitoring. 

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