A global law firm seeks a Senior Manager of Finance to join their Los Angeles team. As the Senior Manager of Finance you will support the firm by using your experience and understanding of law firm revenue cycle, fee structures, alternative fee arrangements, systems, and project management to lead and execute initiatives towards improving the firms successful adoption of leading practices of legal project management and other department strategic initiatives. The Senior Manager liaises with the Director of Pricing, Director of Revenue and Financial Analyses, and colleagues in the Business Development, Technology, and Attorney Development departments in order to develop initiatives that support the firms’ attorneys in all facets of managing their fee negotiations and structures, inventory and collections while accomplishing these and other critical functions:

· Spearheading development and rollout of initiatives that enhances the firm’s abilities to competitively price and sell our professional services in addition to developing tools to enable our attorneys and others to monitor worked inventories and ultimately drive improved

· Gaining understanding of current procedures through discussions, interviews, and observation; also documenting processes for comparison against proposed

· Identifying potential improvements through current process and system documentation, discussions with stakeholders, including those who perform actual work

· Collaborating with functional teams, attorneys, management, and technology to build consensus on changes and future state

· Leading projects from design to implementation stages including providing management updates on progress, issues and areas where escalation is required

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in business, economics or a related field is required.

· An MBA or CPA is preferred.

· Ten years of related experience in a professional services environment is desired.

· Five years of leading projects and other initiatives is desired.

· Fouryears of supervisory/management experience is desired.

Occasional travel is required of this position.