Interim Head of FP&A Legal - Professional Services PE-Backed - Morgan McKinley
Job description
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Morgan Mckinley is currently working with a high-growth, PE-backed legal services business undergoing significant expansion across the UK and internationally.
As part of this growth, they are looking to appoint an Interim Head of FP&A to build out and lead the financial planning & analysis capability, partnering closely with the CFO and senior leadership team.
The Role
This is a high-impact position where you will play a key role in shaping the financial direction of the business.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the FP&A function, delivering robust budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
- Providing commercial insight to support strategic decision-making across practice groups
- Developing and enhancing financial models, KPIs, and performance reporting
- Partnering with senior stakeholders (including non-finance) to drive profitability
- Supporting M&A activity, integration, and investment analysis
- Improving systems, processes, and reporting capabilities
- Delivering board-level reporting and investor insight in a PE-backed environment
We're looking for a commercially minded finance professional with:
- Proven experience in FP&A leadership roles (Head of FP&A / Senior FP&A Manager / FD level)
- Background within law firms or professional services
- Strong understanding of PE-backed or high-growth environments
- Experience working with legal finance systems such as Elite 3E or Aderant
- Ability to operate at pace and deliver value quickly in an interim capacity
- Excellent stakeholder management and business partnering skills
- Opportunity to work within a fast-scaling, PE-backed legal platform
- High visibility role with direct exposure to the CFO and leadership team
- Chance to build and shape FP&A capability in a growing business
- Flexible, hybrid working environment
If you're an experienced FP&A leader with relevant sector experience and are available (or becoming available) for interim opportunities, I'd be keen to speak.
Please send your CV to:
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⭐ Highlight your FP&A leadership experience prominently as the role specifically seeks Head of FP&A or Senior FP&A Manager level professionals
📊 Quantify your PE-backed environment achievements: "Led FP&A for £50M revenue growth, supporting 3 acquisitions"
🌐 Emphasise Elite 3E or Aderant experience as these legal finance systems are specifically mentioned requirements
🎯 Showcase your board-level reporting experience as this role involves direct CFO partnership and investor insight
🤝 Demonstrate your ability to work at pace in interim roles, highlighting quick value delivery examples from previous assignments
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- •Built FP&A capability for PE-backed professional services firm, implementing Elite 3E reporting that reduced month-end close from 15 to 8 days
- •Led financial analysis for 4 legal practice acquisitions totalling £12M, delivering integration models that identified £800k annual synergies
- •Developed KPI dashboard for 6 practice groups, enabling CFO to track billable hour utilisation and drive 12% profitability improvement
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Your PE-backed legal services expansion presents exactly the FP&A leadership challenge I excel at — which is why I'm applying for the Interim Head of FP&A position. My background combines Elite 3E systems expertise with PE-backed environment experience, precisely matching your requirements for building financial capability whilst supporting M&A activity.
My background in leading FP&A transformations for professional services firms has equipped me with the commercial insight and stakeholder management skills essential for partnering with your CFO and senior leadership team during this critical growth phase.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How would you approach building FP&A capability from scratch in a PE-backed legal services firm?
- ›What experience do you have with Elite 3E or Aderant legal finance systems?
- ›How do you develop financial models for professional services businesses with billable hours?
- ›What KPIs would you implement for a growing legal services practice?
- ›How do you approach M&A financial analysis and integration planning?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you had to deliver value quickly in an interim role
- ›Describe a situation where you influenced senior stakeholders without direct authority
- ›How have you managed competing priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth environment?
- ›Give an example of when you had to present complex financial information to non-finance executives
- ›Tell me about a time you improved financial processes or systems in a previous role
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Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you had to deliver value quickly in an interim role
Describe a situation where you influenced senior stakeholders without direct authority