Finance Manager, Business Partnership

Overview

The organization is seeking a Manager, Finance Business Partnership to provide finance support focused on performance drivers, profitability, utilization, pricing, discounting, commissions, personnel analytics, and operating KPIs. This role translates FP&A reporting into business actions, supports monthly performance conversations, leads practice metric development and standardization, and partners with service line and administrative leaders to strengthen forecast discipline and decision support.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary finance partner for all practice groups and growth teams, providing recurring performance insights, forecast updates, business case support, and financial decision support.
• Lead practice metric development, standardization, and reporting, including definitions, ownership, cadence, reporting templates, and alignment to enterprise KPI standards.
• Partner with the data team on key metric definition, dashboard development, metric governance, and consistency across reporting, planning, and leadership review materials.
• Analyze practice profitability, revenue growth, realization, utilization, billable hours, pricing, discounting, write-offs, AR, WIP, hiring plans, compensation, leverage, capacity, and margin drivers.
• Perform pricing and discount analysis, including rate impacts, margin sensitivity, realization trends, client profitability, and scenario analysis to support commercial decision-making.
• Lead monthly financial reviews with practice and functional leaders, translating financial results into clear operating actions, risks, opportunities, and follow-up items.
• Partner with leaders on annual planning, quarterly forecasting, staffing models, investment requests, productivity improvement, and expense management.
• Lead special project work, including profitability reviews, business cases, integration support, reporting redesign, operational metric buildout, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Develop business review materials, KPI dashboards, financial narratives, and recommendations designed for non-finance leaders.
• Work with FP&A Core and Accounting to ensure analysis ties to actual results, approved forecasts, standard definitions, and consistent reporting methodologies.
• Identify trends, challenges assumptions, surface risks and opportunities, and help leaders improve cash conversion, profitability, resource deployment, and accountability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or related field.
• Six+ years of finance, FP&A, business partnership, pricing, commercial finance, or professional services analytics experience.
• Experience with forecast management, KPI reporting, profitability analysis, pricing/discount analysis, business case development, and cross-functional decision support.
• Experience using automation, dashboarding, data tools, or AI-enabled analysis to improve KPI reporting, business review materials, and decision support.

Skills & Abilities

• Strong financial analysis, business partnering, storytelling, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to define metrics, standardize reporting, partner with data teams, and build actionable dashboards and business review materials.
• Ability to apply automation and AI-enabled tools to improve metric reporting, pricing analysis, business narratives, dashboard development, and recurring review materials.
• Ability to challenge assumptions, develop pricing and investment cases, manage special projects, and influence leaders through fact-based analysis.

Compensation & Benefits

• Estimated base pay range: $88,000 - $119,000. Offers typically are not made at the maximum. Actual salary depends on business-related factors including location, skills, experience, training/education, licensure, certifications, business needs, current associate pay, and relevant employment laws.
• Annual discretionary bonus: Individuals may be eligible; subject to participation rules and based on individual and firm performance.
• Benefits highlights include:
  • 8 health plan options (HMO & PPO)
  • Dental and vision coverage
  • Opportunity to enroll in HSA with potential firm contribution
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Firm-sponsored basic life and short- and long-term disability coverage
  • 401(k) savings plan & profit share, including firm matching contribution
  • Well-being incentive
  • Education & certification assistance
  • Flexible time off
  • Family care leave and parental leave
  • Family formation benefits
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Travel rewards
  • Voluntary benefits may include critical illness & accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, legal, long-term care, pet insurance, ID theft protection, and supplemental life/AD&D
• Benefit eligibility is dependent on annual hours expectation, position status/level, and location.

Location

Not specified in the provided job description.

Equal Opportunity / Accommodations

• The employer is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and provides consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for people with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to complete an application, interview, or participate in the recruiting process, request details directly from the recruiting team.