Manager of Business Intelligence

At Fried Frank, we’re a community of 800 lawyers and 500 business services professionals across New York, Washington, DC, London, Frankfurt, and Brussels. We advise leading corporations, investment funds, and financial institutions on high-stakes M&A, securities, regulatory matters, real estate, and litigation. Our culture is grounded in our core values — excellence, integrity and collaboration — and is designed to foster continuous learning, meaningful mentorship, and lasting professional growth.

We are firmly committed to pro bono service and social justice, building on a proud legacy in civil rights. Our inclusive talent strategy is a core part of our broader talent management efforts and we remain steadfast in fostering a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to grow, thrive, and become their best professional and personal selves. Our business services professionals are integral to the firm’s success, driving innovation, operational excellence and exceptional client service across all areas of the firm.

We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package, including comprehensive medical coverage, retirement plans and health and wellness initiatives designed to support your personal and professional wellbeing. We welcome passionate, driven individuals to join us, and be part of a team where you’ll be supported, inspired and empowered to build an exceptional career.

Fried Frank is seeking a Manager of Business Intelligence to lead the firm's BI and reporting function. This is a player-coach role: the person will manage a team of two BI developers/analysts — setting priorities, managing the reporting backlog, and ensuring quality technical delivery — while also personally building and maintaining Power BI reports and datasets, since a team of two doesn't require full-time management.
The firm's reporting environment today includes legacy SSRS reports on a SQL Server backend, and is actively transitioning to Power BI, with a further transition to Microsoft Fabric where the underlying data and workload justify it. The core mission of this role is to drive that modernization while simplifying the reporting landscape — the firm currently maintains over 200 financial reports alone, in addition to a smaller set of non-financial reports.

This person will look for opportunities to rationalize and simplify that portfolio where appropriate, consolidating or retiring reports as warranted, without lowering — and ideally while raising — the level of service the firm experiences: reporting needs to stay highly available and highly usable throughout.

Team & Backlog Leadership

• Manage and develop a team of two BI professionals — setting clear priorities, providing technical guidance, and holding the team accountable for quality delivery.
• Own the BI/reporting intake and backlog process: triage new requests, prioritize against business value and modernization strategy, and set realistic delivery timelines.
• Balance personal hands-on delivery with management responsibilities — this role is expected to remain a working BI developer, not purely a supervisor.

• Lead the ongoing migration of legacy SSRS reports to Power BI, and subsequently to Microsoft Fabric where appropriate, exercising judgment about which reports genuinely warrant migration versus retirement.
• Conduct a comprehensive review of the firm's report catalog — starting with the 200+ financial reports — to identify opportunities to consolidate, simplify, or retire reports where appropriate.
• Define and maintain lightweight report governance (ownership, lifecycle, naming, deprecation process) to keep the reporting environment well-organized as it evolves.
• Simplify and standardize underlying data models and semantic layers to minimize duplicated logic across reports and support a leaner, more maintainable reporting architecture.

• Evaluate and pilot AI-assisted reporting capabilities such as Microsoft Copilot for Power BI/Fabric — including natural-language querying and AI-assisted report generation — to expand self-service access to reporting…