Finance Systems & Reporting Manager – 12 Month FTC

This role is responsible for the stable, resilient, and efficient operation of all Finance Systems, acting as the senior owner of business-as-usual delivery, service control, and the Finance Systems operating model. The role provides clear leadership of BAU activity, protecting system stability while enabling controlled and safe delivery of change in parallel.

The Department has experienced significant growth in recent years and Technology continues to play an increasingly strategic role in supporting that growth. The Technology department is integral to the firm's success, with Finance Systems forming a critical part of the firm's operational backbone. The Finance Systems Team (FST) supports business-critical processes across time recording, billing, accounting, reporting, planning, and financial analysis. Stability, resilience, and predictability of Finance Systems are essential to the firm's ongoing performance and strategic ambitions.

The finance systems environment is a hybrid environment of on premise and cloud hosted systems comprised of the following applications which are managed by a team of 7:

• On Premise: Aderant ERP (Time Recording, Billing, Accounting, GL), Some integrations Intapp Matter Opening (managed by another team but integrated with Aderant)
• Cloud: Intapp Time (Mobile Time Recording), Chrome River (Expenses, Purchasing and Invoicing), Anaplan (FP&A, Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning), Integrations with firm's HR system (People Hub), BD system (Interaction), resource management system (Capacity) and MDM (Profisee), Ayora (AI based WIP Analysis and Proposal tool)

Duties And Responsibilities

• BAU Service Leadership: Overall accountability for day-to-day Finance Systems operations, stability, and service performance, and reporting outputs. Ownership of incident, problem, and service management for Finance Systems. Act as the senior accountable owner for Finance Systems service health and resilience. Ensure predictable and reliable operation of business-critical finance platforms.
• Demand Intake, Triage and Prioritisation: Ownership of Finance Systems demand intake, triage, and prioritisation processes. Enforcement of operating discipline to ensure inappropriate or low-value demand is filtered effectively. Accountability for backlog health, ageing, and throughput. Decision-making authority for stop/start, sequencing, and prioritisation of BAU work.
• Operating Model and Transformation: Leadership of the Finance Systems operating cadence, including daily, weekly, and monthly forums. Delivery of Finance Systems transformation activities aligned to the firm's wider Transformation Plan. Embedding sustainable ways of working to reduce volatility and reliance on individual knowledge. Ensuring BAU controls remain effective over time and do not regress under pressure.
• Team Leadership and Structure: Line management of the Finance Systems Team, including the FST Lead and Anaplan Product Owner. Clarification of roles, responsibilities, and escalation paths within the team. Development of team capability through coaching, delegation, and knowledge sharing. Reduction of single points of failure through structured working practices.
• Reporting, Analytics and Planning Oversight: Accountability for the effective operation and alignment of Finance Systems reporting, analytics, and planning capabilities. Ensure reporting and planning activity is prioritised appropriately and aligned to wider Finance Systems BAU objectives. Remove inefficiencies arising from inappropriate involvement of reporting and planning resources in BAU triage activity. Ensure outputs are coherent, reliable, and aligned with Finance and Technology expectations.
• Risk, Assurance and Service Baseline: Active management of operational risk across Finance Systems. Ownership of service boundaries, support expectations, and assurance obligations. Contribution to the establishment and maintenance of clear service and contractual baselines for business-critical systems.
• Collaboration with Change Delivery: Close collaboration with Finance Systems transformation and project roles. Provision of BAU insight into readiness, sequencing, and operational risk. Maintenance of clear separation of accountability while enabling effective coordination.

Skills/Experience:

• 8+ years' experience in Finance Systems (Aderant) gained in a large, international environment.
• Previous experience building out / implementing / data migration with a financial / ERP solution.
• Familiarity with cross product integrations.
• Experience managing hybrid environments consisting of on premise and cloud hosted applications.
• Experience of Microsoft Infrastructure stack.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and is able to elaborate technical concepts to non-technical colleagues.
• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills.
• Advanced IT skills i.e., writing macros in Excel, SQL and Microsoft Power BI.
• Strong Project Management skills.
• Experience in managing a team.
• Degree educated with an accountancy qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) desirable.

Attributes:

• Organised, analytical, pragmatic, methodical, inquisitive and curious, highly articulate and numerate.
• Flexible and adoptable - comfortable with ambiguity as the business grows and evolves.
• Multi‑cultural approach - comfortable working with different cultures.
• Personable and hands‑on, driven and determined to succeed with a can‑do attitude.
• A team player capable of solving complex issues independently.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.