gunnercooke
Financial Risk & Audit Manager
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Job Title: Financial Risk & Audit Manager
Location: Manchester City Centre
Salary: Competitive, plus benefits
Reports to: Global Finance Director
The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Financial Risk & Audit Manager to join our Finance team. As a Financial Risk & Audit Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring the firm's financial integrity and ensuring absolute compliance with the SRA Accounts Rules. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will contribute to strategic decision-making, helping to drive performance and identify opportunities for improvement. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong financial audit background looking to take the next step in their career.
This is a high-profile role involving interaction across the business at all levels with both financial and non-financial people. Attention to detail, flexibility, and a can-do attitude are prerequisites for this role.
The ideal candidate will be resilient, commercially driven, and champion our culture and values being Compassionomics, Laser-like Focus, Humour, and being Boundaryless.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with external auditors, coordinating audit requests and ensuring information is accurate, complete, and provided within agreed timelines.
- Support the GFD with financial audit planning, audit preparation, financial risk reviews, and compliance reporting.
- Review financial processes, controls, and ledgers to identify risk areas, control gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
- Ensure financial records, reconciliations, ledgers, and supporting documentation are accurate, well maintained, and audit-ready.
- Track audit findings, actions, and recommendations, ensuring follow-up is completed and improvements are embedded.
- Support the development and maintenance of strong financial controls across the finance function.
- Identify and escalate areas of financial risk, non-compliance, or process weakness.
- Manage, support, and develop members of the finance team, ensuring work is delivered accurately and to agreed deadlines.
- Work with internal stakeholders to ensure finance policies, audit requirements, and risk controls are understood and followed.
- Support continuous improvement across finance systems, reporting, processes, and ways of working.
- Maintain clear evidence, documentation, and reporting to support internal review and external audit requirements.
- Ensure financial compliance standards are maintained in line with the expectations of a regulated law firm environment.
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The Person
Skills and Experience
- Strong experience in audit, finance risk, financial compliance, finance controls, or a similar role.
- Strong understanding of ledgers, reconciliations, audit trails, financial records, and control processes.
- Experience working with external auditors and coordinating audit requirements.
- Experience identifying financial risks, control weaknesses, and process improvements.
- Previous experience managing, supervising, or mentoring a team.
- Strong attention to detail and confidence reviewing financial information.
- Able to work confidently with senior stakeholders.
- Experience in a law firm, professional services, or regulated environment would be highly beneficial.
- Fully qualified accountant or demonstrably Qualified by Experience.
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About us
gunnercooke is a Top 75 law firm recognized for over 90 industry awards. Launched in 2010, the firm has rapidly grown to over 500 lawyers across 15 global offices in the UK, US, Germany, and Austria. Our breadth of expertise covers some of the most interesting and important emerging disciplines, from ESG and charity law, to blockchain and competition.
Collaboration is at the forefront of our award-winning culture and is what sets our firm apart from the rest. gunnercooke operates as a fee share model meaning our professionals join as self-employed advisors, free to design and develop the practice they’ve always wanted.
Our purpose is simple; to deliver a positive impact for our clients, provide a better life for our people, and to leave a better world than we found. Our charitable arm, the gunnercooke foundation, enables us to directly engage with communities on social issues and to help charitable organizations grow.
gcTrust is the firm’s dedicated support team comprising specialists in finance, IT, marketing, compliance, recruitment, and partner and offices services. Our role is helping partners to set up, run, and scale up their practices, so they can focus on providing quality service to their clients.
For more information about gunnercooke, please visit www.gunnercooke.com.
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