Senior Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis

Senior Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis – Kansas City, MO;
Dallas, TX;
Minneapolis, MN;
Chicago, IL

Lathrop GPM, one of the nation's leading law firms, has an immediate opening for a Senior Manager – FP&A in one of the following locations:
Kansas City, MO;
Dallas, TX;
Minneapolis, MN;
Chicago, IL. The role leads the firm’s planning, forecasting, and performance analytics, turning data into action. The Senior Manager designs a proactive reporting cadence, governs data integrity, and delivers business intelligence with real‑time visibility to executives, practice leaders, and operations.

• Own a predictable reporting rhythm (weekly/monthly/quarterly) covering revenue, margin, utilization, rate realization, pricing and client/matter profitability.
• Publish early warning dashboards and variance bridges (actual vs. budget/forecast) with root cause analysis and recommended actions.
• Drive rolling 12–18 month forecasts; scenario and sensitivity modeling for economic, rate, and volume changes.
• Deliver KPIs, narratives and visualizations.

• Manage data models that standardize metrics across finance and operations.
• Build self‑service analytics for practice leads and managers; create certified datasets, measures, and report templates.
• Automate recurrent reporting (scheduling, alerting) to reduce cycle times and manual touchpoints.

• Establish and enforce data quality standards: definitions, validation rules, reconciliation routines.
• Partner with Technology Services to maintain secure data pipelines, access controls, and audit trails.
• Lead periodic data quality reviews (rates, arrangements, timekeeping, client/matter attributes) and remediations.

• Manage the annual budgeting process and quarterly reforecasts; set calendars, templates, assumptions, and milestones.

• Serve as the finance liaison to practice groups and administrative leaders; translate insight into action plans.
• Lead cross‑functional projects with defined outcomes and timelines.
• Manage and mentor FP&A analysts; set goals, review performance, and modeling/capability.
• Establish standards of work for models, decks, and dashboards to ensure consistency, accuracy, and readability.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field; MBA or CPA preferred.
• 8–10+ years progressive FP&A experience, in a law firm setting and 3+ years management experience.
• Demonstrated leadership of proactive reporting programs, modeling and forecast cycles.
• Advanced Excel (modeling) and business intelligence software experience.
• Experience with ERP/financial systems (e.g., Elite 3E/Enterprise, Intapp, or comparable), and data tools.
• Strong command of scenario analysis, driver‑based modeling, and profitability frameworks.
• Data integrity champion: meticulous validation and reconciliation.
• Storytelling with data: ability to distill complexity into clear, compelling recommendations.
• Bias for action: converts insights into prioritized initiatives with measurable impact.
• Stakeholder influence: earns trust with partners, practice leaders, and executives.
• Change leadership: designs repeatable processes and improves adoption of analytics.

Current anticipated salary range for applicants in MN as required by applicable state laws is $140,000 - $190,000. Current anticipated salary range for applicants in IL as required by applicable state laws is $147,000 - $200,000. Actual salary will vary and may be above or below the range. Full comprehensive benefit plan includes health care, retirement plan, paid days off, PTO, parental leave, short/long…