McNeill PLLC, a certified majority women-owned biotech and pharma-focused Intellectual Property (IP) boutique, is looking for a highly skilled Manager or Director of Finance (title commensurate with experience). Candidates with approximately 5-9 years of progressive experience in finance may be considered for the Manager level. Those with 10+ years, including significant leadership experience may be considered for the Director role. The successful candidate possesses prior finance leadership in a law firm or professional services environment, with a preference given to candidates with Intellectual Property and remote law firm experience. In this newly formed role, the Manager or Director of Finance will report to the firm’s founding and managing partner and oversee all financial processes.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Strategic financial planning for the firm, including leading the firm’s billing and financial operations, ensuring alignment with firm goals, compliance standards, and client expectations
- Managing the accounting and billing team
- Develop and implement financial policies, procedures, and controls to maintain financial integrity
- Working in conjunction with the Director of Operations, preparing an annual budget
- Preparing accurate and detailed reports for management and partner meetings
- Participating in management and partner meetings
- Managing cash flow, billing, collections, account receivables, and payroll operations, ensuring compliance in multiple states.
- Managing all aspects of taxes, including working with accountants to prepare year-end tax preparation, including filing 1099s and local tax returns; and directly conducting estimated tax filings, including certified mailings to specific states; preparing quarterly financial reporting to partners for tax estimates
- Calculating, tracking, and updating billing rates
- Mine billing system for cost information to assist partners in project budgeting
- Oversee the finance response to major RFPs and ensure compliance with client billing requirements
- Generating reports, including matter budgeting and timekeeper time entries; setting up custom reports
- Advise the firm on billing and accounting software and potential upgrades
- Participate in team performing annual internal review of 401(k) and profit-sharing plan, perform matching and profit-sharing calculations, participate in plan compliance testing
- Assisting with other projects as assigned.
Required Skills and Experience
- Prior finance leadership in a law firm or professional services environment.
- Master’s in finance, accounting, or business; CPA required. CLM (Certified Legal Manager) preferred.
- High attention to detail, extremely accurate work product, outstanding time management skills, and the ability to manage a large volume of action items in a timely manner.
- Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and driving profitability.
- Knowledge of GAAP, tax rules, and law firm financial regulations.
- Strong background in internal controls, cash flow, and financial processes.
- Experience with financial systems such as law firm time entry, billing, accounting, payroll, and client e-billing systems (including LEDES 1998B and LEDES 2.0 XML systems).
- Ability to manage, lead, and develop billing and accounting team; supportive of team members and alternative work schedules.
- Comfortable working with firm leadership, banks, and external auditors.
ABOUT US
McNeill was founded ten years ago by a group of former big law attorneys who continue to practice high value, strategic patent prosecution and client counseling but in a smaller firm environment. Our attorneys are nationally recognized leaders in chemistry and life sciences patent prosecution and counseling, and the firm has been ranked as a recommended firm for patent prosecution for multiple years.
We love what we do! We work with the best and brightest innovative clients at the cutting edge of biotechnology and chemistry. The firm has a strong commitment to reasonable work hours, a family-friendly atmosphere, and respect for employee work-life balance. We are committed to equity and inclusion across race, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, identity, religion, and experience.
- The firm has never had a central brick-and-mortar location and instead uses advanced cloud-based networking capabilities. This eliminates commuting and allows us to hire the best candidates from different locations.
- We offer a comprehensive and generous benefit program, including PTO, flexible schedules, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, paid parental leave, the option to contribute to an FSA or HSA, disability insurance, life insurance, an EAP program, wellness programs, a competitive salary, and a 401(k) plan with generous matching component.
- We provide home office equipment.
- Full-time job opportunity.
- Compensation range: $130,000-$195,000 annually, depending on experience.
Contact
Please submit a resume, cover letter, salary requirements, and desired schedule to careers@mcneilliplaw.com.
Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodations to the application and/or interview process should notify the human resources manager.
We encourage candidates to apply from AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MD, MA, MI, MN, NJ, NH, NC, NY, NV, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, UT, VA, WA, and WI. The successful candidate will work from their own home office.
McNeill PLLC does not accept resumes through search firms or other third parties. We only accept resumes directly from candidates who are interested in joining our firm.
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