Finance Lead

A large global professional services firm seeks a Finance Lead to join their dynamic team. The Finance Lead is an integral part of the firm’s Financial Analysis team and will be responsible for providing insight into the economic performance and financial health of clients, matters, and legal teams, while building and maintaining complex analytical models that leverage the firm’s data to provide insightful analysis and responding to specific requests of business partners and leading those colleagues toward a robust financial outcome. Please note that this role may be eligible for a flexible working schedule that allows for a hybrid and in-office presence.

Responsibilities:

• Leveraging project management principles to manage firmwide financial projects and complete other complex financial requests needed by department management.
• Applying business, economic, finance, and accounting principles to the firm’s internal financial data to help firm leaders simplify and ultimately solve complex problems; leveraging SAP Business Objects to query data and Excel to effectively and efficiently synthesize that data.
• Ensuring emails received through the team’s shared email are handled in a timely professional manner, including prioritizing urgent requests, and ensuring effective handoff with the team in the next time zone.
• Developing standard tools for reporting and analyzing data.
• Maintaining detailed records documenting procedures and assumptions, methodologies, and sources of information employed during the performance of all analytical tasks.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• A minimum of five (5) years’ analytical experience in finance or accounting.