Director, Legal Financial Systems

The role

You will lead complex client engagements and advise law firm leaders on financial systems, operating practices, and technology investments. You will also mentor consulting team members and contribute to sales pursuits.

What you will do

• Serve as a trusted advisor to law firm executive leadership on financial systems and technology roadmaps.
• Lead complex financial systems engagements including implementations, integrations, and optimization.
• Provide subject matter expertise in legal financial management platforms.
• Establish and maintain executive-level client relationships.
• Review key project deliverables and provide executive oversight.
• Mentor and develop Managers and consulting team members.
• Oversee resource management and workforce planning across client engagements.
• Participate in business development in partnership with sales and practice leaders.
• Identify and develop service offerings, methodologies, and intellectual property.
• Monitor legal industry, technology, and market trends.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in legal technology, professional services, consulting, or financial systems.
• Significant experience leading financial systems implementations and optimization programs.
• Demonstrated expertise in law firm financial systems including implementation, integration, optimization, governance, and change management.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with C-level and senior executive stakeholders.
• Strong business acumen.
• Experience leading multiple concurrent client engagements, managing project teams, overseeing budgets, and mitigating delivery risks.
• Experience contributing to business development through client relationship support, proposal development, and solution design.
• Proven leadership experience managing consulting teams and developing talent.
• Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and storytelling skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Understanding of project and program management principles.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and collaboration tools including Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.

Nice to have

• experience with strategy, assessment, or selection work is beneficial

About the company

Harbor is a provider of expert services across strategy, legal technology, operations, and intelligence. Their globally integrated team of 900+ specialists serves leading law firms, corporations, and law departments.