Senior Financial Systems and Innovation Manager

Foley & Lardner LLP; Houston (TX); Hybride; USD 191 000 - 286 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Foley & Lardner LLP is seeking a Senior Manager, Financial Systems to lead strategy, operation, and delivery of accounting and finance systems across the firm. The role requires coordinating with Finance, Technology, and vendors to support data integrity, reporting, and process improvements.

The position oversees month-end processes and governance, with a hybrid work arrangement across Milwaukee, Chicago, and Houston locations. A senior-level track record in financial systems is essential.

Qualifications

• Ten years of experience supporting finance/accounting systems and leading complex systems initiatives.
• Five years of people management experience.
• Experience in law firms or professional services preferred.
• Experience with finance reporting, data governance, dashboards, and integrations.
• Experience collaborating with Finance, Technology, vendors, and cross-functional teams.

Responsabilités

• Provide leadership for the firm's financial systems including accounting, reporting, integrations, and related apps.
• Mentor and develop financial systems professionals; manage performance and career growth.
• Liaise between Finance, Technology, consultants, vendors, and stakeholders on roadmaps and issues.
• Lead financial systems projects: coordinate resources, document decisions, and meet milestones.
• Ensure accurate, complete financial data reflected across dashboards and reports.
• Drive innovation, automation, and process improvements across Finance systems.

Connaissances

Finance systems leadership

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Formation

Bachelor's Degree in IT, Accounting, Finance or related field

Outils

3E

Description du poste

Overview

Foley & Lardner LLP is a great place to work because of what we do and how we do it. Here, your unique perspectives, experiences, and abilities will be embraced and developed, so you can excel. Being a part of Foley means having the opportunities and resources necessary to gain experience, advance professional goals, and forge meaningful connections. It's a place where you can build your career and enjoy professionally satisfying work. We have over 2,300 people who are #HappyatFoley, and we think you will be too.

The Senior Manager, Financial Systems is responsible for leading the strategy, operation, and project delivery of the firm's accounting and integrated finance systems. This role serves as a senior liaison between Finance, Technology, internal stakeholders, and external vendors to ensure financial applications, data, reporting, integrations, and related business processes support the firm's evolving needs. The position provides leadership to financial systems professionals, plays a key role in driving critical projects and system initiatives, leads innovation and process improvement, and ensures operational excellence across financial systems support, documentation, upgrades, testing, and issue resolution. This role has significant impact on the accuracy, integrity, availability, and strategic use of financial data across the firm.

Job Details

• ID 2026-3578
• Category Accounting/Finance
• Type Regular Full-Time
• FLSA Status Exempt
• Scheduled Hours 40+
• Workplace Hybrid

US-IL-Chicago | US-TX-Houston | US-WI-Milwaukee

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight for the firm's financial systems, including accounting, reporting, integrations, and related finance applications.
• Lead, mentor, and develop financial systems professionals including responsibility for work direction, professional development, coaching & mentoring, performance reviews, performance management, compensation, etc.
• Serve as a key liaison between Finance, Technology, consultants, vendors, and internal stakeholders on firmwide financial systems, roadmaps, projects, integrations, and issue resolution.
• Manage strategically important financial systems projects, including coordinating resources, resolving issues, documenting decisions, and meeting project milestones.
• Ensure financial data is accurate, consistent, complete, and appropriately reflected across dashboards, financial reports, accounting systems, and other integrated firm systems.
• Drive innovation, process improvement, automation, and efficiency across Finance by identifying opportunities to better leverage systems, data, workflows, and platform capabilities.
• Oversee incidents, outages, and recurring issues; analyze root causes and ensure remediation plans are implemented to reduce future disruption.
• Maintain thorough functional and operational documentation for systems, procedures, projects, integrations, reporting logic, and process changes.
• Communicate system changes, enhancements, risks, issues, and solutions clearly to management, peers, staff, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Lead the administration and governance of month-end financial processes, ensuring adherence to close schedules, and overseeing the accurate and timely distribution of month-end financial reporting.
• Monitor legal industry, professional services, financial systems, reporting, and technology trends to help inform the future direction of the firm's finance technology roadmap.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required; Information Technology, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field strongly preferred.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of overall experience supporting finance and/or accounting systems, including significant experience leading complex systems initiatives, managing financial systems operations, supporting reporting and data integrity, and working collaboratively with Finance, Technology, business stakeholders, and external vendors required.
• Minimum of five (5) years of people management experience leading technical, systems, project, or cross-functional teams is required.
• Prior law firm or professional services experience strongly preferred.
• Prior experience with applications such as 3E preferred.
• Experience managing financial systems projects, upgrades, integrations, reporting tools, data governance, dashboards, and process improvement initiatives preferred.
• Experience working with consultants, vendors, external developers, and internal technology teams preferred.

In support of transparency and equity in the workplace, Foley provides salary ranges for all positions. The figures below represent the full compensation range of this position. The actual offered amount will be between the range minimum and midpoint based on the following factors: education, experience, geographic market, and internal pay equity at Foley.
Milwaukee- $173,200 to $259,800
Chicago and Houston- $190,500 to $285,800

Foley & Lardner LLP is a top ranked law firm with offices throughout the United States and abroad. At Foley we strive to remain true to our core values- our clients, integrity, our people, citizenship, diversity, trust & respect, stewardship & accountability and professional satisfaction. As a result, we offer the highest quality legal counsel to our clients, as well as outstanding professional opportunities for our employees.

Foley employees enjoy a comfortable, yet professional work environment, exceptional benefit package, state-of-the-art technology, work/life balance, great working relationships and much more.

We invite you to consider a career with Foley.