Sr. Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description

Job Description

**Position physically sits in the Richmond, Virginia office.

The Senior Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis is responsible for driving strategic financial planning, analysis, and decision support within the firm. This role serves as a key advisor to the CFO. Focus on practice, office, and client performance management through the preparation of financial reports and metrics, providing actionable insights to senior stakeholders: Practice Group Leaders, Office Managing Partners, Client Coordinating Lawyers, C-level and other senior support team leaders. The Senior Manager will maintain relationships with these leaders to monitor performance, educate partners, provide strategic guidance and input, and to ensure that our reporting and analysis aligns with each section’s strategy and objectives. They will also share their interpretation of practice, client, and office results with firm leadership, especially the CFO.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategize, develop, and implement innovative technology solutions to streamline financial reporting and analysis.
• Analyze consolidated results and partners closely with CFO to understand variances to budget and historical trends.
• Oversee internal profitability calculations and forecasting for the firm.
• Support management in evaluating attorney performance.
• Oversee budget and performance variance analysis, delivering detailed insights and recommendations on the financial performance of the firm, practice groups, offices, and internal functions, focusing on trends and variances.
• Oversee the preparation of the monthly financial reporting package for firm management.
• Develop a comprehensive financial analysis package for executive leadership. Identify key performance indicators to enhance overall financial performance and provide strategic guidance on financial decisions.
• Manage staff responsible for financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Work with CFO to create and review monthly and quarterly outlook and annual financial plans, including reporting and analysis to explain changes against given baselines.
• Assist in key month end activities including interaction with the CFO and Controller to provide oversight of completeness and accuracy of underlying management information.
• Conduct regular analyses of client metrics and trends; identify underlying causations and translate results into actionable findings for lawyers and, where applicable, support teams.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting required; MBA preferred.
• Requires a minimum of 5+ years' experience in finance in a law firm or professional services organization.
• Strong working knowledge of law firm operations, economic and accounting principles and practice, financial markets, and banking
• Strong analytical, organizational and data gathering/documentation skills with a demonstrated ability to maintain and produce high quality work products with minimal oversight.

Williams Mullen is an equal opportunity employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race (including characteristics commonly associated with race, including hairstyle), color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, creed, medical condition including pregnancy and childbirth, disability, genetic information, genetic information, gender identity and expression, marriage or parental status, sexual orientation or Veteran’s status.