Director, Strategic Client Finance

Our Finance team is responsible for ensuring accurate financial operations and plays a crucial role in managing the Firm’s financial health. Our team handles a wide range of financial activities including financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, taxation, partner compensation, payroll, treasury and cash flow management to support the Firm’s strategic goals. We are responsible for inventory management including billing and collections, and analysis of client, matter and timekeeper profitability.

We oversee statutory accounting and ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards. The Finance team also prepares financial statements, reports and analysis to provide insights into the Firm’s financial performance. We work closely with other functions to monitor expenses, optimize financial processes and implement cost-saving initiatives. Through meticulous financial management and strategic planning, the Finance team ensures the Firm’s financial stability and supports its growth objectives.

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The Global Finance team is led by the Firm’s CFO and is made up of approximately 400 team members around the world. Our core functions include billing and collecting Firm invoices, statutory accounting for the Firm and for individual offices, creating and distributing management reports, processing payments to vendors or reimbursements to employees and managing payroll for our people. Together, we work seamlessly across our network of offices and countries where we operate.

Ours is a multicultural, diverse and supportive team, where everyone’s contribution is welcome and where we share a mutual ambition to achieve our goals and take the Firm from strength to strength.

Our team’s remit includes partner compensation and the maintenance of partner equity accounts; strategic procurement of vendor services; global tax strategies; inventory management, and finally analysis of the profitability of clients, matters and groups of timekeeper. We work with partners and with other business services groups to establish hourly billing rates as well as client-specific fee arrangements. Our Treasury team is responsible for global cash management, foreign currencies and  consultation with Firm leaders, we set annual global revenue and expense budgets across Regional Sections and offices, including legal and business service departments.

The team continuously reviews expenditure throughout the year to ensure that the Firm’s resources are being used efficiently.

Position Summary The Director, Strategic Client Finance will serve as the head of finance for a key global technology client relationship (the Firm’s largest client), providing senior financial leadership within the relationship’s Executive Office. The role will establish and lead the financial governance, operating discipline and reporting required to manage a complex high-value global portfolio effectively.

The relationship encompasses hundreds of active matters across approximately 160 countries, supported by more than 500 firm timekeepers and an extensive network of over 200 local counsel relationships. Operating through a central finance and operations hub in Los Angeles, the role will bring consistent financial oversight, controls and insight across a global delivery model.

As a senior member of the Executive Office, the Director, Strategic Client Finance will work hand in hand with the Global Relationship Partner, Head of Legal Operations and Chief of Staff to support strategic decision-making and translate the relationship’s commercial priorities into practical financial and operational plans, assess investment decisions, manage portfolio performance, identify risks and opportunities across the global delivery model.

The role…