Senior Financial Systems and Innovation Manager
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Financial Systems leads the strategy, operation, and project delivery of the firm’s accounting and integrated finance systems. The role serves as a senior liaison among Finance, Technology, internal stakeholders, and external vendors, ensuring that financial applications, data, reporting, integrations, and related business processes support the firm’s evolving needs. The position provides leadership to financial systems professionals and drives critical projects, system initiatives, innovation, and process improvement. It also ensures operational excellence across financial systems support, documentation, upgrades, testing, and issue resolution. The role has significant impact on the accuracy, integrity, availability, and strategic use of financial data across the firm.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Minimum of 10 years of overall experience supporting finance and/or accounting systems, including significant experience leading complex systems initiatives, managing financial systems operations, supporting reporting and data integrity, and collaborating with Finance, Technology, business stakeholders, and external vendors.
- Minimum of 5 years of people management experience leading technical, systems, project, or cross-functional teams.
Nice To Haves
- A degree in Information Technology, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field is strongly preferred.
- Prior law firm or professional services experience is strongly preferred.
- Prior experience with applications such as 3E is preferred.
- Experience managing financial systems projects, upgrades, integrations, reporting tools, data governance, dashboards, and process improvement initiatives is preferred.
- Experience working with consultants, vendors, external developers, and internal technology teams is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and oversight for the firm’s financial systems, including accounting, reporting, integrations, and related finance applications.
- Lead, mentor, and develop financial systems professionals, including work direction, professional development, coaching and mentoring, performance reviews, performance management, and compensation responsibilities.
- Serve as a key liaison among Finance, Technology, consultants, vendors, and internal stakeholders on firmwide financial systems, roadmaps, projects, integrations, and issue resolution.
- Manage strategically important financial systems projects, coordinating resources, resolving issues, documenting decisions, and meeting project milestones.
- Ensure financial data is accurate, consistent, complete, and appropriately reflected across dashboards, financial reports, accounting systems, and other integrated firm systems.
- Drive innovation, process improvement, automation, and efficiency across Finance by identifying opportunities to better leverage systems, data, workflows, and platform capabilities.
- Oversee incidents, outages, and recurring issues; analyze root causes and ensure remediation plans are implemented to reduce future disruption.
- Maintain thorough functional and operational documentation for systems, procedures, projects, integrations, reporting logic, and process changes.
- Communicate system changes, enhancements, risks, issues, and solutions clearly to management, peers, staff, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Lead the administration and governance of month-end financial processes, ensuring adherence to close schedules and overseeing accurate, timely distribution of month-end financial reporting.
- Monitor legal industry, professional services, financial systems, reporting, and technology trends to help inform the future direction of the firm’s finance technology roadmap.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
