Business Professionals

The business operations teams are at the heart of ensuring our clients' needs are met and that we deliver an outstanding service every time. Comprising a wide range of roles and teams encompassing reception, front desk, switchboard, health & safety, the document production unit, business continuity and office services, these teams ensure that the office runs smoothly 24 hours a day.

Our Finance team is at the heart of our strategy, involved in a variety of areas including managing accounts, budgets and forecasts, providing trend and competitor analysis and other statistical support for partner presentations, as well as cash management, remuneration, internal audit, procurement and pricing, and ultimately ensuring that the firm is compliant, efficient and profitable. The Clifford Chance Procurement department provides best in class strategic guidance and support to the firm with regards to all external supplier interactions.

Our commitment to clients means we are reshaping our services around your evolving needs to make delivery quicker, simpler, more efficient and more robust. We use a range of specialised capabilities in the delivery of our legal services including expert project management and continuous improvement, specialist resourcing through our delivery centres, cutting edge legal technology and data science, and a dedicated research and development team who design and build digital solutions with and for our clients.

Clifford Chance's knowledge programme aims to bring the best collective wisdom and knowledge to bear to enable the firm's people to deliver the highest quality client service and to work as efficiently and effectively as possible. The Central Knowledge Management team is dedicated to delivering knowledge solutions that help achieve this objective by optimising the capture, organisation, distribution, retrieval and re-use of our knowledge. The goal of Information Services (IS) is to ensure all internal clients (fee earning and business professionals) have access to knowledge and information resources which meet business needs cost effectively.

Human Resources management forms a key part of the firm's infrastructure, and it is an important part of the firm's global strategy to attract, motivate and retain the highest quality people across the firm and to become a recognised employer of choice. Our HR department includes HR advisors and specialists, payroll, analytics, reward and benefits, diversity and inclusion, HR business partners, graduate and experienced hire recruitment teams, and graduate development.

We provide in-house translation and editing services (Spanish to English) to our lawyers and business professionals functions, liaising with specialist external translation suppliers in relation to any larger projects outside the scope of our internal resources.