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Chief Financial Officer (CFO) & Business Advisor | Fractional or Outsourced CFO Experience | 100% Remote | W-2

Role overview

Summary

This role serves as the financial leader and trusted advisor for approximately 30 law firm owners at How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm. You will help these owners improve their business profitability through financial analysis and practical advice, leveraging your extensive experience in finance leadership.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of finance leadership experience.
  • Experience as a fractional, outsourced, or virtual CFO, consultant, or advisor.
  • Ability to build financial models and cash flow plans.
  • Preferred: Experience in consulting, engineering, accounting, architecture, IT services, or similar firms.
  • Preferred: Profit First certification or similar financial mindset.

Responsibilities

  • Advise law firm owners on pricing, margins, cash flow, hiring, and growth.
  • Build financial models, forecasts, and KPI dashboards.
  • Analyze financial issues such as unbilled hours and slow collections.
  • Provide practical advice based on financial analysis to improve profitability.

Key facts

  • Full time
  • Expert & Leadership (>10 years)
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • $110K / year
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Forecasting
  • Consulting
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm

  • Management Consulting
  • SME
  • 51–200
Happy lawyers make more money. And broke lawyers don’t do anyone any good…least of all their clients, their family or themselves. We are the leading, largest, biggest and best provider of outside Managing Partner, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) services exclusively for the solo and small law firm (single-shareholder) market. Whether you’re just starting out, you’re earning seven figures, or you’re somewhere in between… if you run a solo law firm and you are serious about growing your firm, making more money, and having fun in the process, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve worked with thousands of solo lawyers just like you and we’ve identified the common patterns and the challenges that hold most of them back. And we’ve seen that these obstacles evolve as the firm grows. That’s why we’ve divided our program based on the four distinct stages of law firm growth - so that you’re surrounded with lawyers that are grappling with the same challenges you are, and so that you’re provided with the resources you need to overcome them. Visit our website for more details! In addition, we present a variety of workshops, seminars, and CLE opportunities designed to help solo lawyers create wildly profitable law firms. If you’ll let us to brag for a moment, we’re pretty damn good at this. Don’t take our word for it - visit our website and see what our clients have to say. But in all honestly… we can’t take all of the credit for the massive success of our clients. What really makes our program so effective is the caliber of the community we’ve put together. As a member, you’ll be surrounded by solo lawyers just like you - motivated, entrepreneurial, smart, and ambitious. And thanks to our strictly enforced “NO ASSHOLES” policy, there’s a good chance that you’ll actually like some of these people! Iron sharpens iron, and joining this inspiring community will be among the best career decisions you’ve ever made!

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Chief Financial Officer (CFO) & Business Advisor | Fractional or Outsourced CFO Experience | 100% Remote | W-2

Description:

Company: How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm (HTM)
Employment: Full-Time | W-2 Employee with Benefits | No outside work or consulting
Compensation: $110,000 Guaranteed Base + Per-Client Incremental Compensation | Targeted Total Compensation: $160,000 – $182,000
Location: Remote within AZ, CO, FL, GA, ID, IL, LA, MD, MI, MO, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA, WV.

YOU’RE THE OUTSIDE CFO OWNERS TRUST WITH THEIR NUMBERS

An owner tells you, “We’re busy, but there’s no cash.” You find out why: the pricing, the unbilled hours, the slow collections, the hire that never paid for itself. Then you explain it in plain English and help them fix it.

You’ve done this for owners who weren’t your employer: as a fractional, outsourced, or virtual CFO, a consultant, or a trusted advisor. You love the moment it clicks for them.

If that sounds like you, keep reading.

THE ROLE

HTM helps solo and small law firm owners build more profitable businesses. As our Chief Financial Officer & Business Advisor, you’ll be the financial leader and trusted advisor to about 30 law firm owners. Law firms are professional services businesses, where the people are the production engine. You’ll advise on pricing, margins, cash flow, hiring, and growth, building the models, forecasts, and KPI dashboards yourself. We provide the portfolio of potential clients and the systems. No cold calling or prospecting.

THIS MIGHT BE YOU IF

  • You have 8+ years of finance leadership, and you have served multiple outside business owners or clients as a fractional, outsourced, or virtual CFO, consultant, or advisor.
  • You have been the person owners rely on for pricing, profitability, and cash flow decisions.
  • You build the models, forecasts, and cash flow plans yourself, and you turn them into practical advice.
  • You think in utilization, realization, capacity, and revenue per head, from consulting, engineering, accounting, architecture, IT services, or similar firms. (A huge plus.)
  • You have improved profitability, pricing, or margins for a client, and can show the numbers.
  • You are Profit First certified, or you think like it. (A strong plus.)

Leading finance inside a company is valuable experience, but on its own it isn’t enough for this role. Legal experience is not required. We’ll teach you the law-firm specifics.

WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT

It is a full-time W-2 position with no outside work or consulting. It is not a CFO seat inside a single company or family group, and it is not a controller, bookkeeping, treasury, SEC reporting, capital raising, M&A, or nonprofit finance role. If your background is only real estate, construction, or manufacturing, expect a learning curve.

WHY HTM

  • $110,000 guaranteed base salary, plus incremental compensation for each client you serve, up to 30 clients. Targeted total compensation is $160,000 to $182,000.
  • Full-time W-2 with benefits: medical, dental, and vision (75% paid by HTM), 401(k) match, unlimited PTO, and more
  • 100% remote, with travel to U.S. events a couple of times a year
  • Inc. 5000 every year since 2013
  • A short, hands-on working session is part of the interview process

If you read this and thought, “That’s me,” apply today.

Applicants must reside in one of the listed states and be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

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