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Full-time
professional certificate
34 Hour Working Week, Agile Working, Annual Salary Review, 25 Days Annual Leave, Bank Holidays, Holiday Purchase Scheme
Posted 88d ago
~34 hrs/week
Responsibilities
Partner with the CEO and leadership to shape firm strategy and lead financial planning and performance insight. Oversee the finance function, including budgeting, audit, and compliance, while driving commercial growth through data-led decision-making.
Requirements
Requires a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with experience as a Finance Director or Head of Finance. Experience in professional services and a proven track record of transforming finance functions and systems are highly advantageous.
Full job description
Finance Director
Department: Finance
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Manchester
Description
We’re looking for a commercially driven Finance Director to partner with the CEO and Partnership, leading financial strategy and transforming how the firm uses data, insight, and performance to drive growth.
This is a high-impact, strategic role, focused on driving commercial performance, enhancing decision-making, and evolving the finance function to support a modern, forward-looking firm.
Please note, this role can be based in Leeds, Halifax or Manchester; however, regular travel between all four office locations will be required.
Key Responsibilities
Partner with the CEO & leadership team to shape and deliver firm strategy
Lead financial planning, forecasting, and performance insight
Drive commercial decision-making through data-led insight
Build and develop a high-performing finance team
Improve systems, processes, and financial controls
Deliver clear reporting across KPIs, profitability, and cashflow
Lead external stakeholder relationships (auditors, banks, advisors)
Oversee budgeting, audit, tax, payroll, and compliance
Identify opportunities for efficiency, margin growth, and operational improvement
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Established Finance Director or a strong Head of Finance ready to step up
Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
Experience in professional services (legal/IP highly advantageous)
Experience transforming finance functions, systems, and processes
Experience improving finance functions, systems, and reporting
Confident in influencing senior stakeholders and leadership
Benefits
We pride ourselves on being small and friendly enough for you to get to know everyone – but big enough to offer you great career prospects. At Appleyard Lees, you won't feel like a number or just another cog in the wheel. We understand everyone is individual and offer a friendly and supportive place to work and learn.
We also offer:
34 hour working week, Monday - Friday
Agile working
A supportive and friendly place to work and learn
Annual salary review
25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Holiday Purchase Scheme
Salary Exchange
Life assurance
Healthcare Cash Plan & Wellbeing App
Group Income Protection
Long Service Milestones
Social outings
Vouchers on Christmas, Birthdays and Special Occasions
Appleyard Lees is a leading intellectual property law firm, with over seventy patent and trade mark attorneys and litigators.
Who we are, and what we do – but also, how we do it – makes us distinctive.
Our commercially intelligent approach to client service incorporates flexibility and adaptability. We strive to be agile, to respond to specific client requirements in a way that suits them.
We help a broad range of IP owners and creators, including in-house teams, R&D specialists, owner-managers and branding professionals, protect and monetise their intellectual property. We also support clients manage post-grant challenges, should they arise.
Our clients include some of the world’s most exciting innovators, largest companies and household names, with a number of clients obtaining Fortune 500, Fortune Global 2000, FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and Forbes Global 2000 status. Our clients operate across a diverse collection of industries, including chemicals, retail, consumer goods, electronics, software, bio and life sciences, pharmaceuticals, metals and heavy industry, higher education and hospitality, leisure and tourism.
In addition to our catalogue of multinational and multimillion-pound clients, Appleyard Lees is equally proud of the role we have played in the growth of start-up businesses.
The firm recruits the very best professionals who have a passion for their individual areas of specialism and supports staff throughout their career development. Providing expert training, we ensure our staff can deliver outstanding service.
With offices in UK innovation hotspots, we are positioned to give clients expert strategic IP advice in the UK and worldwide.
Offices: Dean Clough, Halifax, England HX3 5AH, GB · The Lexicon, Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NT, GB · 6th Floor, 1 East Parade, Leeds, LS1 2AD, GB · Godwin House, Castle Hill, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0RA, GB · Alderley Park, Alderley Edge, Cheshire SK10 4TG, GB
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