Global Workforce Planning & Analytics Lead

Legora; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Union Square office

Company lunch daily

Multiple medical plan options

HSA or Healthcare FSA

Dental plans

Vision plans

401(K) with company match

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Maven Clinic access

Life Insurance + STD/LTD

commuter benefits

One Medical membership

Job summary

Legora is seeking a Senior Manager, Workforce Planning & Analytics to own the companywide workforce plan, forecast personnel costs, and govern the headcount budget within FP&A. You will translate hiring decisions into financial impact and provide leadership with clear views on investments and timing.

You will partner with People and Talent Acquisition to align hiring with the financial plan, build dashboards, and establish a trusted data view across HRIS and planning systems as Legora scales.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in FP&A, workforce planning, or commercial finance, with meaningful ownership of headcount and personnel cost.
• Experience from a technology and/or scale-up start-up environment.
• Deep fluency in workforce metrics, including spans and layers, attrition and replacement modelling, ramp, cost per hire, and functional headcount ratios.
• Hands-on experience owning a hiring plan and a personnel cost forecast, including re-forecasting through the year.
• Strong modelling skills, with the ability to build clean, flexible, decision-ready plans that hold up under scenario pressure.
• Practical experience working across ATS and HRIS data, ideally including position management, and comfort defining requirements for system implementations or migrations.
• Proven ability to build strong relationships with People, Talent, and functional leadership, and to hold the line on governance without becoming a blocker.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, using data to inform decisions and improve outcomes.
• A builder mindset, comfortable working through ambiguity, maturing processes, and implementing scalable improvements.
• Strong execution skills and the ability to manage competing priorities during planning cycles and month-end close.
• Clear, concise communication skills, with the ability to translate numbers into narrative for non-finance stakeholders.
• Comfort with finance and people systems (e.g. Ashby, HiBob or Workday, ERP, and planning/BI tools) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• You will be the FP&A owner for workforce planning and personnel cost across Legora.
• Own the companywide headcount plan, including current employees, approved openings, future hiring, start dates, location, level, and cost.
• Forecast total personnel cost across salary, bonus, commissions, employer taxes, benefits, and share based compensation, with monthly variance analysis against plan and actuals.
• Own headcount governance, ensuring new requisitions, replacements, transfers, and changes to planned roles are consistent with the approved financial plan.
• Maintain the financial source of truth for headcount and personnel cost across Finance, People, and Talent Acquisition.
• Translate annual operating plans into hiring plans by function, geography, level, and timing.
• Partner with business leaders to evaluate workforce investment decisions, including hiring pace, organizational structure, productivity, and tradeoffs against the broader financial plan.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition on hiring capacity, timing, and sequencing so the forecast reflects realistic hiring assumptions.
• Build financial views of organizational efficiency, including revenue per employee, personnel cost as a percentage of revenue, functional spend ratios, management leverages, and hiring productivity.
• Own position management from a Finance perspective, including the connection between approved positions, Ashby, our HRIS, and financial planning systems.
• Partner with Total Rewards on compensation assumptions, pay bands, equity, and offer governance to ensure hiring decisions remain within plan.
• Build the workforce reporting used in management, Board, investor, and audit materials.
• Create models, dashboards, controls, and processes that improve forecast accuracy and reduce manual reconciliation.
• Continuously improve how Legora allocates its largest investment across teams, markets, and functions.

Skills

Headcount planning

Workforce analytics

Financial governance

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Tools

Ashby

HiBob

Workday

ERP/BI tools

Job description

Legora is seeking a Senior Manager, Workforce Planning & Analytics to own the companywide workforce plan, forecast personnel costs, and govern the headcount budget within FP&A. You will translate hiring decisions into financial impact and provide leadership with clear views on investments and timing.

You will partner with People and Talent Acquisition to align hiring with the financial plan, build dashboards, and establish a trusted data view across HRIS and planning systems as Legora scales.