Our Finance team is responsible for ensuring accurate financial operations and plays a crucial role in managing the Firm’s financial health. Our team handles a wide range of financial activities including financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, taxation, partner compensation, payroll, treasury and cash flow management to support the Firm’s strategic goals. We are responsible for inventory management including billing and collections, and analysis of client, matter and timekeeper profitability. We oversee statutory accounting and ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards. The Finance team also prepares financial statements, reports and analysis to provide insights into the Firm’s financial performance. We work closely with other functions to monitor expenses, optimize financial processes and implement cost-saving initiatives. Through meticulous financial management and strategic planning, the Finance team ensures the Firm’s financial stability and supports its growth objectives.
This is a unique opportunity to join a team that is implementing significant change, by focusing on client service excellence and process innovation. This Senior Manager role is a key part of the Firm’s strategy to support a stronger business, increase profitability and demonstrate operational efficiency.
This role is part of the Firm’s global Legal Project Management (LPM) team. The team was set up to work with our lawyers to manage Client portfolios and to co-deliver projects; and also with our clients and their in-house legal and operational teams.
The main focus will be on legal project management. From advice to delivery of the full project/matter lifecycle, the ideal candidate will have demonstrable project management capabilities preferably gained in a professional services environment. The candidate will be required to understand and assess business and change management needs and will have experience of delivering complex projects across multiple business functions, teams, geographies/jurisdictions and industries, defining scope and identifying the most appropriate project delivery approach in collaboration with our lawyers, other key stakeholders and clients.
The role will require the Senior Manager to work directly with legal teams and clients on the Firm’s most significant matters and clients, by liaising with the partners and senior lawyers on the progress, profitability and efficiency of the matters and clients
The Senior Manager will have the opportunity to influence and help to grow the LPM capability and may also have line management responsibility for Managers and Senior Analysts/Analysts. They will be involved in development opportunities for more junior members of the global team. They will be someone who is able to work with limited supervision to effectively build relationships and manage project delivery.
The success of this role will be measured by the candidate adding value to the organisation by contributing to the roll out of LPM best practices, tools and techniques across our global Practice Groups.