Financial Reporting & FP&A (FP&A Lead) - 6-month FTC

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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.

The Role

Reporting to the Central Services Strategic Reporting Manager, the Financial Reporting & FP&A Lead is responsible for the delivery, coordination, and analysis of global financial and operational performance reporting across the Swiss Verein.

The 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, while respecting the independence of regional finance and FP&A teams.

This role is a 6-month FTC.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Alignment

• Build strong, trusted relationships with regional FP&A leads, Global Finance, Global BD, and central services.
• 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 (NRF, peers, AM Law 100) to position firm performance in market context.
• Support global governance and strategy discussions through consistent and comparable financial insight.

Operational Leadership

• 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.

Continuous Improvement

• 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.

Skills and Experience Required

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field
• CPA, CA, CMA or equivalent qualification preferred
• 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

Technical & Specialist Knowledge

• 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

Competencies

• 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

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