Head of Finance and Practice Management Systems

I am currently working with a legal services client on an exciting Head of Finance and Practice Management Systems. This is a Permanent role that requires 3 days a week in their London offices.

To be considered for this role, you must have:

• Proven experience supporting finance and practice management systems in a professional services or legal environment.
• Deep understanding of practice management platforms (e.g. Aderant Expert), financial operations, and legal billing processes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and vendor negotiation skills. Able to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience with large-scale system upgrades, cloud transitions, and cross-functional programme delivery working in an Agile delivery environment.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities to meet the needs of the business.

Key responsibilities:

• Proactively support the development and execution of the firm's finance and practice management systems roadmap, ensuring alignment with firmwide transformation initiatives and enterprise architecture standards.
• Guide the integration of core systems (e.g. Expert, Intapp, Emburse) to support consistent, reliable, and efficient financial and operational processes.
• Monitor vendor roadmaps and market trends, including attending conferences as relevant, to inform internal strategy and investment planning.
• Act as the firm's point of contact for key stakeholder escalations, working closely with regional finance leads, IT, and practice management stakeholders.
• Ensure readiness for go-lives, including change and comms activities, user training, data validation, and business continuity planning working closely with the delivery teams, including the Programme Management Office.

If this matches your skillset then send your CV for our careful consideration!