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About the Role

The Financial Performance Infrastructure & Transformation Manager will support Firm leadership by overseeing financial reporting, planning processes, and core financial data governance. This role drives consistency, scalability, and continuous improvement through process simplification, automation, and reporting enhancements. Responsibilities include managing reporting calendars, prioritizing deliverables, establishing documentation standards, and building a center of excellence for financial reporting and analytics.

Responsibilities

Oversee production of recurring executive reporting, including monthly finance packages, client and practice reports, and quarterly profitability and actual vs. projection analyses.
Ensure accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of all reporting outputs.
Lead the annual business planning, budgeting, and business review production process.
Create and deliver timely and insightful financial reports that support strategic decision-making.
Support quarterly forecasting production process.
Partner with firm leadership to deliver strategic insights and recommendations.
Build and maintain financial models to support planning and growth initiatives.
Oversee key monthly financial processes, including profitability, cost rate development and maintenance, FX entries, and inventory roll forwards.
Ensure data integrity across systems and reporting outputs.
Serve as the primary business owner of the Firm's enterprise planning system, overseeing implementation, enhancement, governance, and ongoing support.
Partner with stakeholders to identify opportunities for system improvements, translate business requirements into scalable solutions, and manage enhancement roadmaps and priorities.
Oversee user acceptance testing, system upgrades, and change management activities.
Monitor system performance, data quality, and user adoption, identifying opportunities for automation, efficiency gains, and enhanced functionality.
Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for reporting processes, data definitions and methodologies, and financial models and tools.
Establish and evolve a center of excellence (CoE) for FP&A, defining best practices, governance standards, creating user guides, and promoting knowledge sharing.
Serve as a key resource for training and onboarding related to reporting and analytics tools.
Ensure compliance with the Firm’s procedures, policies, and guidelines.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of Financial Planning & Analysis experience.
Minimum of 2 years of management experience.
Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and competing business needs in a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated project management experience, including planning, coordinating, and executing cross-functional initiatives.
Ability to prioritize, plan, and multi-task work activities in a high-pressure environment with minimal supervision.
Experience implementing, supporting, or enhancing enterprise planning, reporting, or financial systems.
Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence decision-making across all levels of the organization.
Strong verbal and writing communication skills.
Demonstrate flexibility and initiative with respect to handling multiple projects and shifting priorities.
Experience with enterprise performance management (EPM) platforms.
Working knowledge of MS Excel; proficiency in MS Word and MS PowerPoint.

Skills

Financial Planning & Analysis
Management
Organizational skills
Project management
Stakeholder management
Relationship-building
Verbal communication
Writing communication
Flexibility
Initiative
Enterprise performance management (EPM) platforms
MS Excel
MS Word
MS PowerPoint

Location

New York

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

5+ years Financial Planning & Analysis
2+ years management

Education Level

Bachelor's degree required
Preferred Degree in Finance or Accounting or related

Salary/Compensations

$160,000 to $190,000

About the Company

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is one of the world’s leading international law firms, established in 1884 with approximately 2,000 lawyers.
Headquartered in New York with offices in Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Palo Alto, San Francisco, São Paulo, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., the Firm provides coordinated legal advice and transactional capability to clients around the globe.

Equal Opportunity

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is committed to a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.
The Firm prohibits discrimination or harassment based upon race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, veteran’s status or any other legally protected status.
This Policy pertains to every aspect of an individual’s relationship with the Firm, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, benefits, training and development, promotion, transfer, discipline, termination, and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment.