Finance Project Specialist @ Top London Law Firm £Flex

Top London law firm with five years’ of projects in the pipeline is seeking to recruit a Finance Project Specialist, with Revenue experience to be involved in, and assist the revenue manager with, the delivery of financial system upgrades, implementation projects from detailed specification through to user testing and successful roll out and training on the revenue side of finance.  Applicants will act as a ‘bridge’ between the Finance and IT teams to build a high level of understanding financial requirements and methodology. you will need to be able to both understand the technical application and specifications as well as rolling up your their sleeves to help to deliver projects on time.  You will be asked to be involved in the planning and scoping of new finance system projects, help ensure accurate scheduling, time and cost estimations, help ensure appropriate finance and IT resource is available throughout the project, maintain accurate documentation of the project, build a good working relationship with the revenue team and ensure that projects do not undermine the Firm’s billing and cash collection targets, help manage risk and issues within a project, understanding the implications for the project for all finance users, applications and systems, coordinate and communicate IT requirements with relevant IT colleagues (in both the applications and technical teams), liaise with external providers to ensure timings and budgets are adhered to and ensure that testing is undertaken in a satisfactory manner.  Candidates require previous finance project experience where you have also been tasked with providing training post-project.  Additionally, applicants will ideally be of A-level standard or above with an understanding of financial processes and systems within City law firms, be able to demonstrate a high level of drive, focus and determination and be able to apply these attributes to ensure the smooth and efficient progression of various financial projects, it would be beneficial should you have an understanding of legal systems, particularly Elite, ARCS and E-billinghub.  This firm offer tremendous benefits with standard hours 9:30 – 17:30.