Head of Finance Systems
Global Law Firm, London
The Head of Finance and Practice Management Systems is a senior leadership role responsible for the management, overseeing, operational excellence, and continuous improvement of the firm's finance and practice management suite of applications.
The role comprises the key day-to-day interface between Business Finance, IT, NBI and Practice Group leadership to deliver scalable, secure, and efficient business process solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
* Proactively support the development and execution of the firm's finance and practice management systems (FPMS), roadmap, ensuring alignment with firmwide transformation initiatives and enterprise architecture standards.
* Guide the integration of core systems (e.g. Expert, Intapp, Emburse) to support consistent, reliable, and efficient financial and operational processes.
* Manage the relationship between FPMS and the IT regional BRM team leads.
* Maintain key operational relationships with key vendors (e.g. Aderant, Intapp and Emburse), to ensure service levels, commercial alignment, and innovation partnership activities are aligned with the firm's needs.
* Act as the firm's point of contact for key stakeholder escalations, working closely with regional finance leads, IT, and practice management stakeholders.
* Proactively support major transformation initiatives involving FPMS platforms, including cloud migrations, automation, and integrations with the firm's broader technology ecosystem.
Experience:
* Proven experience (minimum of 3 years) supporting finance and practice management systems in a professional services or legal environment.
* Deep understanding of the professional services sector.
* Deep understanding of practice management platforms (e.g. Aderant Expert), financial operations, and legal billing processes.