# Financial Reporting & FP&A Lead

**Company**: Norton Rose Fulbright
**Location**: Newcastle upon Tyne
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking a Financial Reporting & FP&A Lead to join their team. The successful candidate will report to the Central Services Strategic Reporting Manager and be responsible for the delivery, coordination, and analysis of global financial and operational performance reporting across the Swiss Verein.

The role owns the execution of global FP&A and financial reporting outputs, including revenue, profitability, productivity, cash, workforce, benchmarking, and referral-related financial metrics. The role aggregates regional inputs into consistent, comparable global views, supports global leadership and governance reporting, and provides high-quality analysis and insight, while respecting the independence of regional finance and FP&A teams.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Strategic Alignment**

- Build strong, trusted relationships with regional FP&A leads, Global Finance, Global BD, and central services.

- Align global financial reporting outputs with firmwide strategy, global initiatives, and leadership priorities.

- Provide clear analytical narratives explaining global performance drivers, risks, and opportunities.

- Support global leadership with evidence-based insights on revenue growth, productivity, profitability, and cash.

- Deliver benchmarking and competitor analysis to position firm performance in market context.

**Operational Leadership**

- Deliver global reporting on revenue, fees billed, expenses, margins, RPL, PEP, partner economics, rates, utilisation, and leverage, comparing actuals to budget, forecast, and prior year.

- Prepare YTD, TTM, and annual global financial reporting packs for leadership, committees, and governance bodies.

- Coordinate global aggregation of budget and forecast data, working with regional FP&A teams.

- Produce global reporting on FTEs, workforce ratios, hours, productivity, and cost rates by region and practice.

- Deliver global reporting on lock-up, collections, working capital, liquidity, and intercompany balances.

**Continuous Improvement**

- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise, and automate recurring global FP&A and financial reporting.

- Build and enhance Power BI and Excel-based dashboards to support scalable global reporting.

- Improve data quality and consistency through better validation, documentation, and coordination with regions.

**Skills and Experience Required**

- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field

- CPA, CA, CMA or equivalent qualification preferred

- 5–7+ years’ experience in FP&A, financial reporting, or management reporting

- Experience in multi-national professional services or partnership-based organisations preferred

- Experience working within federated or matrixed operating models (e.g. Swiss Verein) is an advantage

- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office 365

- Strong working knowledge of Power BI, Tableau, or other BI tools

- Strong understanding of professional services financial drivers

- Strong analytical, modelling, and communication skills

## Skills

### Required
- Accounting
- Finance
- Economics
- FP&A
- financial reporting
- Power BI
- Excel
- Microsoft Office 365

### Nice to have
- CPA
- CA
- CMA
- Tableau

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