Global Client Finance Director: Strategic Growth & Billing

White-; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 206,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave and vacation

Job summary

White & Case is seeking a Director of Strategic Client Finance in Los Angeles to lead financial governance for our largest global technology client. You will partner with the Executive Office to translate commercial priorities into disciplined financial plans across hundreds of matters in 160 countries.

You will manage a finance team of Revenue Controllers and an incoming Finance Manager, oversee budgeting, forecasting, and profitability analyses, and ensure client guidelines and outside counsel

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a related discipline required.
• Significant experience in finance, accounting, billing, revenue management, or financial operations, preferably within a law firm or professional services environment.
• Prior law firm experience strongly preferred, including exposure to legal billing, client billing guidelines, matter budgeting, revenue management, realization, collections, and profitability analysis.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end law firm financial processes, including billing, work in progress, accounts receivable, collections, accounts payable, and client reporting.
• Experience managing complex, high-value client relationships, at-scale - preferably large institutional or technology-sector clients with global footprints, sophisticated billing and compliance requirements, and extensive local counsel or vendor networks.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop finance and compliance teams, setting direction and accountability across multiple functions and geographies.
• High degree of discretion, professionalism, sound judgment, and comfort handling confidential financial and client information.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and hands-on financial leadership across all aspects of the global client relationship – spanning hundreds of active matters across approximately 160 countries including billing, revenue, budget-to-actual performance forecasting, reporting, profitability, and compliance.
• Establish and maintain robust financial governance, controls, and operating rhythms that support accurate, timely, and disciplined financial management.
• Partner with Global Relationship Partner, Finance leadership, Legal Operations and client teams to provide financial insights, identify risks and opportunities, and support informed decision-making.
• Oversee client budget performance, including tracking against approved budgets, monitoring matter-level financial activity across the portfolio, and escalating issues or variances as needed to relevant stakeholders, including the Legal Operations team.
• Lead revenue management activities, including oversight of work in progress, collections, realization, billing cycles, and revenue leakage across a portfolio supported by more than 500 firm timekeepers.
• Drive accurate and timely billing by coordinating with attorneys, billing professionals, and operational teams to ensure invoices comply with client requirements and outside counsel guidelines.
• Lead and develop the dedicated billing team — three Revenue Controllers and an incoming Finance Manager — providing direction, prioritization, coaching, and performance oversight to ensure consistent service delivery and accountability.
• Oversee the five-person invoice compliance team, including its manager, responsible for the management, review, and processing of bills from the relationship network of over 200 local counsels globally.
• Strengthen accounts payable and invoice compliance processes, including review of local counsel billing, adherence to client guidelines, issue resolution, and timely processing.
• Develop and deliver regular financial reporting, dashboards, variance analyses, forecasts, and profitability insights for firm leadership and the Executive Office.
• Prepare ad-hoc financial reporting and analysis to address emerging business needs, stakeholder requests, and client requirements.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce operational friction, improve coordination, and enhance the quality and consistency of financial information.
• Serve as a senior point of escalation for all finance matters including; complex billing, finance, AP, and local counsel invoice compliance matters, ensuring timely resolution and proactive stakeholder communication.
• Maintain a strong understanding of client billing guidelines, outside counsel requirements, legal finance best practices, and law firm financial operations.

Skills

Revenue management

Billing leadership

Financial reporting

Budget forecasting

Team leadership

Client relationship management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration

Job description

White & Case is seeking a Director of Strategic Client Finance in Los Angeles to lead financial governance for our largest global technology client. You will partner with the Executive Office to translate commercial priorities into disciplined financial plans across hundreds of matters in 160 countries.

You will manage a finance team of Revenue Controllers and an incoming Finance Manager, oversee budgeting, forecasting, and profitability analyses, and ensure client guidelines and outside counsel