Finance & Accounting Services Manager - US

Manager Finance & Accounting Services

The Manager Finance & Accounting Services, United States is an integral part of Latham's Financial Accounting team. This role will be responsible for, in association with Global Finance, supporting US practice offices for training, quality control, and monitoring of finance and accounting functions, while delivering full cycle finance service and support through a solid understanding of all areas of the Finance department, including billing and operations. This role will be located in our Chicago office. Please note that this role may be eligible for a flexible working schedule that allows for a hybrid and in-office presence.

Other key responsibilities include :

• Implementing initiatives across the practice offices by developing training materials, testing, and other key staff; including their schedules and work activities
• Identifying activities that the Global Services Office (GSO) can do to support practice office needs to allow local office to focus on revenue focused responsibilities such as billing / collections and local trust functions
• Assisting local office accounting managers to recruit, select, train, and coach employees
• Reviewing, investigating, and resolving problems encountered by practice offices or GSO. Identifying root cause of issues and developing training and other plans to prevent or identify similar issues in the future
• Working and communicating with practice office accounting managers, supervisors, and GSO staff to ensure high level accounting support and customer service are provided to the firm
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and / or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

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Benefits & Additional Information

Latham & Watkins is an equal opportunity employer. The Firm prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status (including veterans of the Vietnam era), gender expression, marital status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by applicable statute.

Pay Range

USD $150,000.00 - USD $175,000.00 / Yr.