Senior FP&A Manager: Strategic Forecasting & Analysis

Dechert LLP; Washington (District of Columbia); Sur place; USD 180 000 - 200 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Dechert LLP is seeking a Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis to own complex financial modeling, forecasting, and executive-ready analyses. This hands-on role partners with FP&A, BI, and finance teams to turn data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations for leadership.

You will develop revenue forecasts, profitability analyses, rate analyses, and long-range plans, while presenting clear narratives to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a Business, IS, or STEM major required; an MBA preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in a professional services environment, with a focus on financial planning and analysis.
• Strong FP&A foundation, including forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, profitability analysis, scenario modeling, cash flow analysis, and executive-level financial reporting.

Responsabilités

• Independently build, maintain, and enhance complex financial models supporting revenue forecasting, cost analysis, cash flow planning, rate analysis, profitability analysis, and strategic scenario modeling.
• Develop revenue forecasts and related analyses that incorporate historical trends, billing and collections patterns, matter activity, staffing assumptions, practice group dynamics, and other relevant business drivers.
• Support lateral partner, lateral group, and other strategic growth analyses, including modeling projected revenue, compensation, staffing, expenses, profitability, cash flow impact, and sensitivity scenarios.
• Prepare financial analyses and executive-ready presentations for firm leadership, practice group leaders, office leaders, and administrative leadership, with a focus on clear narrative, key implications, risks, and recommended actions.
• Analyze key law firm performance drivers, including hours, demand, rates, realization, collections, leverage, matter economics, client profitability, practice performance, office performance, and market trends.
• Partner with business intelligence and technical finance colleagues to leverage source-system data, dashboards, and reporting tools while independently applying financial judgment, business context, and analytical interpretation.
• Translate complex financial and operational data into concise, practical insights that support planning, resource allocation, pricing, staffing, investment, and strategic decision-making.
• Conduct detailed expense, headcount, compensation, and operating cost analyses to support budget development, forecast updates, variance analysis, and management decision-making.
• Assist with the annual budget, periodic forecast updates, long-range planning, and other recurring FP&A processes, with a focus on modeling, analysis, assumption development, and leadership-facing materials.
• Respond to sensitive ad hoc requests from senior leadership and other internal stakeholders by quickly framing the issue, identifying the required data, developing the analysis, and communicating findings clearly.
• Benchmark firm, practice, office, client, and matter performance against internal trends and external market data, where available, to identify risks, opportunities, and areas requiring further analysis.
• Collaborate effectively in a flat team environment, contributing hands-on analytical capacity and financial perspective without relying on formal people-management authority.

Formation

Bachelor’s degree with a Business, IS, or STEM major; MBA preferred

7+ years in a professional services FP&A role

Strong FP&A foundation: forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, profitability, scenario modeling, cash flow, exec reporting

Outils

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Python

SSMS

Elite/Aderant

Description du poste

Dechert LLP is seeking a Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis to own complex financial modeling, forecasting, and executive-ready analyses. This hands-on role partners with FP&A, BI, and finance teams to turn data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations for leadership.

You will develop revenue forecasts, profitability analyses, rate analyses, and long-range plans, while presenting clear narratives to senior stakeholders.