Senior Manager, Finance Transformation, Expense & Operational Finance in Boston

Senior Manager, Finance Transformation, Expense & Operational Finance

Join a high-impact finance leadership role at the center of operational excellence and transformation. The Senior Manager, Finance Transformation, Expense & Operational Finance is a strategic and hands-on leader who will help shape the future of finance operations by leading core functions such as Accounts Payable, expense operations, process optimization, finance systems transformation, and data-driven decision support. This is more than a traditional finance operations role-it is an opportunity to drive meaningful change, influence how the business scales, and partner directly with executive leadership and operational business owners on initiatives that improve efficiency, strengthen controls, enhance visibility, and deliver measurable business value.

Location:

This position can sit in any of our US office locations and offers a hybrid schedule with hours from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM Eastern Time.

Responsibilities:

• Lead modern finance operations with a focus on scalability, service excellence, and strong financial controls.
• Drive process improvement, standardization, and continuous optimization across finance operations.
• Partner with FP&A and business leaders to strengthen insight, planning, and decision support.
• Lead targeted finance transformation initiatives from strategy through execution.
• Advance technology, analytics, and data enablement across the finance organization.
• Build trusted partnerships across Finance, Operations, and executive leadership.

Desired

Skills:

We are looking for a leader who combines strong operational finance and finance transformation experience with the ability to influence across functions and levels of the organization. The ideal candidate brings a strategic mindset, strong execution discipline, and a track record of improving finance operations through process redesign, automation, systems implementation, analytics, and change management.

Minimum Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or a related field.

Preferred Education:

Master's degree in Business Administration or related field.

Minimum Years of

Experience:

10+ years of progressive experience in finance transformation, operational finance, FP&A, controllership support, shared services, procure-to-pay, or related finance leadership roles, including experience leading large-scale initiatives, cross-functional programs, process improvement efforts, systems implementations, and stakeholder-facing transformation work.

Essential Job Expectations:
While the specific job requirements of a DLA Piper position may vary depending upon scope of the job and area of specialty, there are certain universal requirements that are expected of all DLA Piper employees, which include but are not limited to:

• Effectively communicate, verbally and in writing, with clients, lawyers, business professionals, and third parties.
• Produce deliverables, answer phone calls, and reply to correspondence in an efficient and responsive manner.
• Provide timely, accurate, and quality work product.
• Successfully meet deadlines, expectations, and perform work duties as required.
• Foster positive work relationships.
• Comply with all firm policies and practices.
• Engage in both physical and sedentary activity, such as (a) working at a computer for extended periods of time, including on-screen reading and typing; (b) participating in digital/virtual conference calls; (c) participating in meetings as needed.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
• Perform all other duties, tasks or projects as assigned.

Our employees are expected to embrace and uphold our firm values as a part of our DLA Piper culture. We are committed to excellence in how we represent our clients and develop our people. Physical Demands Sedentary work:
Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Work Environment The individual selected for this position may have the opportunity for a hybrid work arrangement comprised of remote and in-office work, the requirement for which will be determined in coordination with the hiring manager or supervisor and may be modified in the firm's discretion in the future.

Disclaimer The purpose of this job description is to provide a concise statement of the work elements and to organize and present the information in a standardized way. It is not intended to describe all the elements of the work that may be performed by every individual in this classification, nor should it serve as the sole criteria for personnel decisions and actions.

The job duties, requirements, and expectations for this position may be modified at the Firm's discretion at any time. This job description does not change the at-will nature of employment.

Application Process Applicants must…