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About the Role
The Financial Reporting & FP&A Lead is responsible for delivering, coordinating, and analyzing global financial and operational performance reporting across the Swiss Verein. This role owns the execution of global FP&A and financial reporting outputs, including revenue, profitability, productivity, cash, workforce, benchmarking, and referral-related financial metrics. The role aggregates regional inputs into consistent, comparable global views, supports global leadership and governance reporting, and provides high-quality analysis and insight. This is a 6-month FTC.
Responsibilities
- Align global financial reporting outputs with firmwide strategy, global initiatives, and leadership priorities.
- Provide clear analytical narratives explaining global performance drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Support global leadership with evidence-based insights on revenue growth, productivity, profitability, and cash.
- Deliver benchmarking and competitor analysis to position firm performance in market context.
- Support global governance and strategy discussions through consistent and comparable financial insight.
- Deliver global reporting on revenue, fees billed, expenses, margins, RPL, PEP, partner economics, rates, utilisation, and leverage, comparing actuals to budget, forecast, and prior year.
- Prepare YTD, TTM, and annual global financial reporting packs for leadership, committees, and governance bodies.
- Coordinate global aggregation of budget and forecast data, working with regional FP&A teams.
- Produce global reporting on FTEs, workforce ratios, hours, productivity, and cost rates by region and practice.
- Deliver global reporting on lock-up, collections, working capital, liquidity, and intercompany balances.
- Provide global financial reporting on inbound and outbound referrals, including fees, matter counts, and trends.
- Validate and reconcile regional submissions to ensure accuracy, consistency, and auditability of global outputs.
- Respond to global leadership and partner queries with clear, timely financial analysis.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise, and automate recurring global FP&A and financial reporting.
- Build and enhance Power BI and Excel-based dashboards to support scalable global reporting.
- Improve data quality and consistency through better validation, documentation, and coordination with regions.
- Contribute to the longer-term roadmap for global financial reporting and FP&A maturity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field
- 5–7+ years’ experience in FP&A, financial reporting, or management reporting
- Experience in multi-national professional services or partnership-based organisations preferred
- Experience working within federated or matrixed operating models (e.g. Swiss Verein) is an advantage
- Strong attention to detail and control mindset
- Effective stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Ability to synthesise complex financial data into clear insights
- Comfortable working across multiple time zones
- Proactive, delivery-focused, and resilient
Skills
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office 365
- Strong working knowledge of Power BI, Tableau, or other BI tools
- Strong understanding of professional services financial drivers
- Strong analytical, modelling, and communication skills
Location
- remote
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-7+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- CPA, CA, CMA or equivalent qualification preferred
Benefits
- Range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies
- Access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing health and overall wellbeing
About the Company
- Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm with more than 3,000 lawyers advising clients across locations in the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East.
- We provide a full scope of legal services to the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions.
- Our vision is to be a world class business, profitable, ambitious, cooperative and considerate, supporting our clients and people through our global business principles of Quality, Unity and Integrity.
- We apply our business principles to all our activities world-wide. They describe our culture and personality both internally and externally, the way we work and what we stand for.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams.
- We strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any tailored adjustments or accommodations, please let us know here.