A place for you. It means more here. We bring true purpose, authentic people and a proven path. You bring you. The Opportunity As a full-time, permanent Finance Business Partner , based from our Brisbane CBD head office, you’ll support our progressive and authentic firm as we champion what’s right. Reporting to the General Manager of Performance and Reporting across Shine’s Personal Injury, you’ll be responsible for partnering with business leaders on the planning, budgeting and reporting on financial performance. You’ll play a key role in the management accounting team in the coordination of the budgeting process, and various other internal accounting initiatives, including preparing and analysing various management reports on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis, making commercial recommendations to legal and senior leaders. This role is ideal for a self-starter who wants the credibility of an established ASX-listed firm where your personal impact is felt across our legal practice manager and general manager groups. Here’s how you’ll help us stay ahead of the pack by: Producing financial reports on individual department performance including profit and loss accounts, budgets, cash flows, and monthly management accounts, while assisting the management accounting team with the annual budget. Providing regular reports, recommendations, and interpretations to senior stakeholders including CFO on financial and operating data, and variances to the budget. Delivering accurate, insightful monthly management reports, budgets, forecasts, and commercial recommendations to support senior leadership decision-making. Driving process improvements and lead finance initiatives, ensuring data integrity, compliance, and a seamless partnership with Financial Accounting team. Acting as a trusted advisor to legal managers and business leaders, offering commercial insights, financial guidance, and contributing to continuous improvement. Managing complex financial matters and high-level escalations, while playing a key role in audit preparation, WIP provision modelling, and data analysis opportunities. Coaching business leaders, championing the firm’s values and helping shape a high-performance, client-focused finance culture. What you’ll bring To thrive in this role, you will: Finance degree or related field. CA or CPA qualified. 5 years of experience in management accounting function or equivalent industry specific experience. Exposure to working within an ASX-listed environment, a large multinational subsidiary, or other complex business is highly advantageous, but not essential for success. Exposure to working in a professional services firm is desirable. Experience in legal management systems highly desired. Strong understanding of modern management information systems. Ability to analyse and communicate financial information. Demonstrated strong commercial acumen skills. Demonstrated skills in forecasting. Strong stakeholder management skills. Strong MS Excel skills. Deadline driven with a strong attention to detail. Ability to work autonomously, and strong willingness to learn. Shine Lawyers: A place for you. It means more here. At Shine, purpose really matters. It’s our clients, who summon the courage to stand up to injustice. It’s the communities we are part of and support every day. It’s our team, who champion what’s right and make this place what it is. We’re an ASX-listed organisation, and we've been standing up for the rights of everyday Australians for more than 45 years. We’ve achieved a lot but you’ll find no airs and graces here. We’re humble yet relentless. We don’t pretend to be anything other than ourselves. And together, we’ve created a place for you to thrive. Here are some of the things we hope you’ll love about working with us: Connect and be you: Get the flexibility and benefits you need, and work alongside truly authentic people who care so much - about the clients, Shine and you. Challenge and be challenged: We’re not here for “easy”. We want you to take your place at Shine and make a real impact. Question and challenge - that’s how we grow. Achieve and grow: Start your Shine journey with our in-house learning programs, where you’ll find immediate connection and be set up for success. You will be provided real opportunities to step up and grow - within your role and beyond. Visit https://www.shine.com.au/careers/life-shine to find out more and read the stories of our incredible people. Excited to join us and stand up to injustice? Apply now and make Shine Justice a place for you. As part of The Circle Back Initiative, we want you to feel supported through our recruitment process, which means that you will hear back from our friendly team – no matter the outcome. We are committed to making Shine Lawyers a place for you by encouraging and supporting our people to bring their authentic selves to the workplace, and as a result, we know you’ll put your best self forward while righting wrong for our clients. We’re passionate about maintaining a diverse and inclusive environment here at Shine that celebrates all of our differences with age, disability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, to name a few, and we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates. You bring you .
