Finance Team Coordinator

Finance Team Coordinator

The Finance Coordinator supports team operations by providing coordination in daily tasks, supporting transitions of the processes as well as the new joiners' onboarding process, and assisting with team management tasks. The role involves significant collaboration with Team Leaders to ensure smooth team functioning and high performance.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Manage everyday workload and ensure smooth operational flow within the team.
• Delegate tasks to team members, empowering them and promoting a culture of shared responsibility within the team.
• Offer daily process knowledge support for the team, ensuring team members are well-informed and capable in their roles.
• Participate in onboarding training and set up learning paths for new joiners, assisting them during their initial months as well as contribute to preparing training plans within the team to build a backup structure.
• Assist the Team Leader with timesheets, KPI management, training matrix, over hours monitoring (approval remains TL's responsibility), backup structure in the team and communication support.
• Perform as a backup for the Team Leader during her/his absence, ensuring continuity of leadership and team operations. Participate in business meetings when appointed by the Team Leader.
• Coordinate team members' participation in projects and assist the Team Leader in delegating team members to project working groups.
• Prepare monthly team metrics, including SLA and quality checks, to monitor performance and ensure standards are met.
• Perform all activities in line with agreed SLAs and KPIs, ensuring that all relevant company standards and guidelines are met.
• Ensure all relevant company standards and guidelines are met in process execution.
• Perform any additional tasks and responsibilities as assigned by the Team Leader, ensuring flexibility and responsiveness to the needs of the organization.

About you

• Work experience in Finance with understanding of GL processes.
• University Degree in accounting or relevant courses.
• Fluent English, German language would be an asset.
• Expertise in managing and coordinating daily tasks.
• Process improvement experience in an asset.
• Proficiency with relevant software, systems and tools (Excel, SAP, ServiceNow etc.).
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment.
• Very good self-organization and target orientation skills.
• Customer and teamwork focus and capability.

About us

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

Our values

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully.
• Be Collaborative - we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships.
• Be Bold - we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions.
• Be Exceptional - we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations.

Diversity and inclusion

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

Hybrid working

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

Pre-engagement screening

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.