Finance Manager

Finance Manager

Finance Operations Manager of the GSC Finance stream ensures the delivery of high-quality and timely support services related to DLA Piper’s finance and accounting processes and systems. This role leads on all day-to-day activities to deliver medium- and short-term plans in line with the function strategy, ensuring all key performance metrics are being met, while leading the entrusted teams, providing direction to team members, monitoring workload and making decisions to ensure priorities are delivered sustainably at the same time.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Oversee financial operations in entrusted processes area and lead on all day-to-day activities to execute medium- and short-term plans in line with the function strategy, ensuring all relevant company standards and guidelines are met in process execution
• Manage escalated service issues, monitor root cause analysis and remediation actions, regularly report on substandard service delivery; provide guidance and approval related to escalations to the direct reports and other people as delegated
• Closely cooperate with Senior Manager, global process owners & leads to drive efficiency, improve quality and timelines of service and remove structural issues impacting the service
• Manage process transitions, continuous improvement actions and other projects within entrusted processes area
• Facilitate integration with other functional areas including seeking opportunities for cross-team cost-effective solutions. Pay attention to the trends that might impact ways of working and service delivery
• Actively monitor and notify Senior Manager about a need to calibrate relevant performance metrics to assess team performance, quality of provided services, process efficiency and compliance with agreed service standards
• Drive regular service performance reviews, covering aspects of current performance (timelines, accuracy, volume, etc), demand/supply including relevant capability & capacity gaps, technology advancements, service complaints and efficiency. Coach others to incorporate different perspectives and seeks multiple sources to fully understand and solve problems
• Identify, design and implement improvements in process and work organisation including active participation in technology implementations
• Take on leader's responsibilities: drive employee engagement across the team, ensure the team is capable, facilitate equitable access to training and development opportunities and leverage training resources, recruit new members and ensure their integration in the team, measure and evaluate individual and team performance, provide ongoing feedback, manage employee issues (with HR consultation), support Senior Manager in salary review and budgeting process, encourage open communication, promote well-being and build an environment and culture of support, collaboration, equality and trust

About you

• Relevant experience working in finance shared services centre or BPO environment. Transition experience and proven track record in managing mid to large scale operations including continuous improvement will be a strong asset
• Experience in people management, with proven experience or ability to manage the team during periods of continuous change
• Thorough understanding of relevant finance and accounting processes
• University degree, preferably in accounting, finance, or a related field
• Good knowledge of Office 365 tools and advanced knowledge of MS Excel. IT-savvy, familiar with ERP-class systems and data reporting tools (e.g. Power BI). Knowledge of SAP and ServiceNow is strongly preferred
• Strong written and verbal English skills to ensure clear communication in a global work environment
• Capable to communicate clearly with team members, as well as interact appropriately and effectively with clients and senior stakeholders, including expectations management skills
• Strong interpersonal, people management and leadership skills and ability to work in international diversified professional environment
• Excellent skills in managing entrusted substantive area, incl. problem solving, priority setting, planning, delegation, managing and evaluating work capabilities, with focus both on providing accurate and timely service to internal and external customers, and on supporting the team. Self-starter
• Strong drive and a consistently positive and collaborative attitude and a ‘can do’ approach while being able to work well on own initiative and as part of a wider team

About us

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

Our values

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
• Be Collaborative - we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
• Be Bold - we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
• Be Exceptional - we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

Diversity and inclusion

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

Hybrid working

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

Pre-engagement screening

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.