Senior Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis

Lathrop GPM LLP; Missouri; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefit plan

Health care

Retirement plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Parental leave

Short/long term disability

Job summary

Lathrop GPM LLP, a leading law firm, is seeking a Senior Manager for Financial Planning and Analysis. This role is pivotal in leading planning, forecasting, and analytics functions across multiple locations including Kansas City and Chicago.

The ideal candidate will have extensive FP&A experience, strong leadership skills, and a proven track record in the legal sector. The anticipated salary range varies by location, with the responsibilities including developing reporting frameworks and managing budgeting processes.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of progressive FP&A experience, ideally within a law firm.
• 3+ years management experience.
• Strong command of scenario analysis and profitability frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, forecasting, and performance analytics.
• Develop early warning dashboards and variance analysis.
• Manage annual budgeting process and quarterly reforecasts.

Skills

Financial Planning and Analysis

Budgeting

Data Integrity

Stakeholder Influence

Advanced Excel

Business Intelligence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field

MBA or CPA (preferred)

Tools

ERP/financial systems (e.g., Elite 3E/Enterprise, Intapp)

Business Intelligence software

Job description

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.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Proactive Reporting & Executive Insights

• 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.

Business Intelligence (BI) & Automation

• 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.

Data Integrity & Governance

• 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.

Planning Process Leadership

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

Stakeholder Management & Change Leadership

• 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.

REQUIREMENTS

• 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 term disability.

The application window is anticipated to close on or after July 1, 2026.

We celebrate and support diversity and the benefits it brings to our workplaces, clients and communities. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. It is the employment policy and practice of Lathrop GPM to recruit and hire employees without discrimination because of race, color, sex, gender, religion, age, national origin, military status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other status protected by applicable law.

Lathrop GPM LLP offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, and a professional, challenging, yet comfortable working environment. Lathrop GPM does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiting agencies. Any resume submitted to any employee of Lathrop GPM without prior approval from an HR Manager will be considered unsolicited and the property of Lathrop GPM.