Commercial Finance Business Partner

Overview

In this role you will drive the international pricing agenda to optimise profitability and reinforce competitive positioning across markets. You will partner with Partners and cross-functional teams to design value-driven fee arrangements and leverage AI insights for strategic pricing. You will monitor profitability, ensure data integrity, and translate RFP requirements into tactical pricing proposals. You will champion budgeting tools and foster cross-border collaboration to improve client transparency and financial planning. This is a client-facing, high-impact role in a dynamic professional services environment with global scope.

Responsibilities

• Drive the international pricing agenda across markets to optimise profitability and competitive positioning
• Collaborate with Partners to design innovative, value-driven fee arrangements leveraging AI insights
• Proactively follow up on successful arrangements, assess profitability, and flag scope changes against Terms of Business
• Ensure internal systems reflect agreed rate structures and support pricing policy compliance
• Interpret RFP requirements to prepare tactical pricing proposals focused on client strategy and firm targets
• Champion the use of internal matter budgeting tools to improve financial planning and client transparency
• Raise awareness of client profitability across the firm and engage stakeholders to improve international profitability
• Collaborate with Finance Business Partnering, Pitch, Legal Project Management and Business Development teams
• Work with International Sector Heads on client strategy initiatives and provide regular profitability updates
• Identify training gaps and provide outreach across the Firm to support finance and profitability goals

Key requirements

• Strong grounding in Commercial Finance in a fast-paced professional services setting
• Ability to analyse and model financial data and prepare concise client-ready reporting and modelling
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment with attention to detail
• Advanced user of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; SAP and Power BI desirable; familiarity with AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot
• Continuous improvement mindset for self, colleagues and processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Confident interpersonal skills to engage with senior Partners and Directors
• Tenacity, resilience and calm under pressure; flexible to changing requirements
• Dynamic problem-solving with creative, commercial, pragmatic solutions
• Ability to work within a partnership culture and influence senior stakeholders
• Ability to adapt working style across functions and geographies

• excellent communication
• stakeholder management
• collaboration
• Microsoft Excel
• PowerPoint
• SAP

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