Senior Business Manager Middle East
About Eversheds
You would be joining a team providing world class commercial and financial services to our business. You'll be someone who wants to be the best at what they do; who can handle pressure and enjoys making decisions that will have a real impact on our business. Our firm is all about teamwork and you would be a crucial part of that team - you'll find the work stimulating, the atmosphere dynamic and the results highly satisfying.
Key responsibilities:
· Ensure co-ordinated planning and implementation of all cross working activities for the region, covering but not limited to the following:-
· Provision of commercial insight and strategic advice to the business
· Operational plans, designed, consulted upon and implemented
· Budget planning, communication and implementation
· Client Profitability
· Client Service
· Compliance requirements
· Salary Review Process
· Promotions (Partners and Lawyers) ensuring correct budget envelope linkage and performance evaluation between Finance and HR, including a joined up timetable.
· Technology and Innovation Forums
Ways of Working
· Business Development
· Performance Management
· To ensure consistent communication across the Region’s operational teams and facilitate feedback and action to the RMP, ensuring the correct risks or ideas get enough air time
· To be the holder of the Region’s risk register on behalf of the RMP, ensuring key risks are captured and that mitigation plans are in place
· Be a sounding board for the RMP, looking at the strengths and weaknesses for the teams, partners and individuals across the region. The Business Manager would need to understand the commercial operating environment of the region, firmwide strategy, tensions and the commercial impact of decisions and direction of the region, to ensure a highly strategic discussion can be maintained with the RMP and the operational plans formulated
· Become an alternative senior point of contact from the RMP for the partner group regarding operational issues. The Business manager would need to be active at unlocking operational situations and be a champion for looking at ways to ensure “ease of doing business” by the Fee Earning community, be an innovation champion and focus on end client delivery
· Ensure strong communication links with the Business Service Directors, the Business Manager needs to understand Firmwide implications and operational priorities
· Co-ordinate RMP updates to the SMT, Board and operational reviews in a consistent format and be the first line challenge of content to ensure relevance and quality input for the operation teams
· Accountability for the Global Operations across the region with the Business Service Managers reporting into the Senior Business Manager
· Ensure close relationships are built across the operational leads as the role requires action through influence, quality leadership and communication
· Team accountability
· Define and establish resources required on a medium to long term basis to ensure local partner requirements are met in an effective and timely manner
· Lead, motivate, develop, mentor and appraise team members
· Transformation and change
· Act as an agent for change, driving transformational change to improve the way Global Operations operates around end to end processes
Skills and experience:
· You will have extensive experience operating at senior levels, and will have impeccable communication and commercial skills – and confidence to challenge – with a strong commercial background
· Intelligent, energetic, resilient and passionate, you will be able to quickly hit the ground running and make a significant difference to the team and business which you support
· Qualified accountant with number of years PQE and extensive commercial experience
· Strong preference for professional services background
· Excellent English and Arabic
· You will need to be customer focused, flexible, results driven and used to operating in a period of change and renowned for your accuracy and insight
· Willingness to roll sleeves up and undertake a range of activities at critical times of the month
· You will exhibit huge drive, passion, energy, enthusiasm and commitment
· You will be highly effective as part of a wider team, and a real team player
· You will be able to inspire your local team and the wider Global Operations team with your passion and your first class leadership skills
Key competencies:
· Finance professional with a proven track record gained in a broad range of senior roles (minimum 5 years post qualified experience)
Fluent English (both written and oral)
Technical Capabilities:
· Substantial professional and procedural knowledge of local legal firm tax, statutory accounting and filing requirements
· Strong understanding of legal industry environment (commercial awareness)
Professional Effectiveness Capabilities:
· Ability to build excellent and influential relationships with key stakeholders
· Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
· Ability to lead and implement change
· Politically astute
Leadership & Management Capabilities:
· Ability to influence at senior levels internally and externally
Strong leadership skills:
· Makes sound decisions that have an important effect on the business
· Gains people’s commitment and makes things happen
· Turns strategy into results
· Passionate about making a difference