Product Manager - Finance

The Department

Our Technology team continues to go from strength to strength, playing a vital role in firm-wide innovation and strategy. Far from being a support function, Technology is integral to the firm's growth agenda, backed by strong leadership engagement and sustained investment.

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Product, the Product Manager - Finance owns the strategy, roadmap and value realisation for the firm's Finance product group. The portfolio covers the Aderant practice-management ecosystem and connected finance capabilities including time, billing, collections, WIP, records and reporting, alongside planning, expenses, payments and other finance products such as Anaplan, ChromeRiver, Bottomline and Worldpay.

The role manages two Product Owners, one focused on Aderant and one on the wider Finance portfolio. It will partner with Finance leadership, practice groups, Data, Engineering, Architecture, Risk and suppliers to modernise critical finance workflows while protecting financial control, business continuity and revenue operations.

Duties and Responsibilities

Product strategy and roadmap

• Own the Finance product vision, roadmap and investment priorities across Aderant and the wider finance estate.
• Balance revenue-critical operations, regulatory and control requirements, service health, technical debt and strategic transformation.
• Shape business cases and sequencing decisions for major upgrades including any transition to SaaS platforms, new modules, integrations and rationalisation.
• Establish OKRs and value-based metrics to demonstrate ROI and justify investment decisions to leadership.

Finance workflow and value

• Lead discovery across time recording, billing, collections, WIP, financial reporting, budgeting, expenses and payments.
• Improve process efficiency, data quality and user experience while maintaining appropriate controls and auditability.
• Define outcome measures spanning billing effectiveness, cycle time, data quality, adoption, operational risk, cost and service reliability.

Platform, data and supplier leadership

• Partner with Data and Architecture on Aderant-dependent reporting, master data and integration flows.
• Ensure release, configuration, access, resilience, support and operational-readiness decisions reflect the criticality of finance products.
• Own strategic supplier and commercial input, including product roadmaps, licensing, renewals and performance.

Lead and develop

• Lead and coach both Finance Product Owners, clarify portfolio boundaries and resolve dependencies and priorities.
• Create a joined-up cadence across roadmap planning, delivery, release management, BAU and continuous improvement.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Significant Product Manager experience owning business-critical platforms or digital products in a complex organisation.
• Proven ability to define product strategy, roadmaps, priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Strong product craft across discovery, iterative delivery, adoption, value measurement and lifecycle management.
• Credibility with senior stakeholders and the ability to make trade-offs across competing priorities.
• Experience leading and developing Product Owners or comparable product and platform specialists.
• Confidence partnering with Engineering, Data, Architecture, Security and suppliers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with a pragmatic and accountable approach.
• Strong understanding of enterprise finance, ERP or practice-management processes and controls.
• Experience owning mission-critical platforms where continuity, data quality and integration reliability are essential.

Desirable

• Experience in a law firm, professional services or another regulated environment.
• Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms, complex integrations and vendor ecosystems.
• Experience improving adoption, operational readiness and business processes through product-led change.
• Familiarity with Jira Product Discovery, Jira and evidence-based prioritisation.
• Experience with Aderant Expert or comparable legal practice-management/ERP platforms.
• Experience with financial planning, expenses, payments, billing or revenue-management products.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About Mishcon de Reya Group

The Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent, international professional services business with law at its heart, employing over 1400 people with over 650 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services.

Mishcon de Reya LLP is based in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore, Hong Kong and UAE. The firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply.The work the firm undertakes is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, centred around three increasingly entwined and connected sectors: the Innovation Economy, Private Wealth and Capital, and Real Estate. The firm is known as a disputes powerhouse with a formidable capacity firmwide for dispute resolution.

The Mishcon de Reya Group includes consultancy businesses MDR Discover,MDR Mayfair(in London, Singapore and Dubai), MDR ONE, and MDRi(in Hong Kong). The Group also includesMDR Lab, which invests in the most promising early stage legaltech companies as well as the Mishcon Academy, its in-house place of learning and platform for thought leadership.

In 2024, the Group announced its first strategic acquisition in the alternative legal services market, flexible legal resourcing business Flex Legal. It also acquired a majority stake in Somos, a global group actions management business.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.

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