Role Overview: Senior leadership role responsible for defining and delivering the firm’s global Finance reporting strategy. Oversees reporting governance, systems, analytics, and transformation initiatives to ensure accurate, scalable, and insight driven financial reporting that supports strategic decision making and profitable growth. Core Responsibilities: Strategy & Leadership: Set and execute the global reporting roadmap (KPIs, dashboards, automation, analytics). Act as strategic advisor to Finance leadership. Reporting & Governance: Own end-to-end Finance reporting lifecycle. Establish global standards, controls, and data governance to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance. Systems & Analytics: Optimise reporting and BI platforms; enable advanced analytics and leverage emerging technologies (AI/RPA) to modernise. Business Partnering: Provide actionable financial insights to senior stakeholders across Finance and business teams globally. Transformation & Change: Lead cross functional reporting improvements and drive adoption of new tools and processes. Team Leadership: Lead and develop a high-performing global reporting team. Key Requirements: Demonstrable leadership experience in Finance reporting/analytics within professional services or law firm environment. Proven experience delivering reporting transformation and data modernisation initiatives. Strong systems and BI expertise with solid understanding of core Finance processes and professional services sector metrics. Excellent stakeholder management, governance, and change leadership capability. Overall Impact: This is a senior leadership role responsible for transforming and governing global Finance reporting, enabling high-quality insight, improved decision making, and long-term profitable growth for the firm. Inclusion Freshfields is an equal opportunities employer and all applications received by the firm will be considered by the firm on the basis of their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background. All offers of employment will be conditional on the candidate having/securing the right to work in the UK and providing the firm with evidence of that right (as required by the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006) prior to employment commencing. Freshfields is a Ban the Box employer. We ask applicants to disclose criminal convictions only when a conditional job offer is made. A conviction does not automatically lead to withdrawal of the offer: we make decisions on a case by case basis and take a number of factors into account (eg the role you are applying for and the circumstances of the offence). You would have the opportunity to discuss the matter with us before we make a decision.