Job Details

Grow with us! We are featured in Inc. Magazine's prestigious 2023 Inc. 5,000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies List and are the 25th fastest-growing private company in the entire state of Louisiana!

Do you find satisfaction in helping people and making a difference in their lives and the lives of their communities? Laborde Earles is committed to providing quality representation to our clients and being fully attentive to their needs, which starts by providing the same favorable environment for our team members. Join us in standing up for our clients, with our community, by our work, and beside each other!

The Opportunity

Expanding Personal Injury Law Firm has an immediate opening for a Director of Finance in our Lafayette, Louisiana office.

We are seeking a meticulous Director to be accountable to our Partners and Accounting Department. This role requires strong interpersonal skills where professionalism, confidentiality, and integrity are showcased. A successful candidate for the role will be team and detail-oriented. Success in this role will also require the ability to multi-task and be solution driven to ensure the financial health of the firm.

Objective

Continuously improve financial efficiency by finding places to cut cost and to provide financial reports and analysis to support Partners with strategic decision process.

Desired Outcomes

1. Accountable to increase revenue
   
   • Monitor, track, analyze, and make recommendations on commission and referral fees to maximize Laborde Earles profits
   • Monitor, track, analyze, and make recommendations on marketing spend to minimize cost per case while increasing number of acquisitions
   • Proficiently analyze financial data, create accurate forecasts, and develop comprehensive financial strategies to optimize resource allocation and drive profitability
2. Accountable for timely and accurate financial planning, analysis and reporting to support Partners' decisions, firm growth and stability
   
   • Strategic thinking and alignment of financial goals with overall business objectives, identifying growth opportunities, and anticipating market trends
   • Identify potential financial risks, implementing robust internal controls, and mitigating risks through proactive strategies. Provide risk assessment analysis incorporating projected growth models of up to 5+ years.
   • Develop protocols for all financial transactions
   • Effectively communicate complex financial information to diverse audiences, including Partners and non-financial Leadership Team members
   • Work with cross-departmental leadership to highlight each department's fiscal impact on the overall fiscal health
   • Embrace technology, utilizing advanced financial software and data analytics to gain insights and enhance decision-making. Support the company transition through AI-generated software options that help achieve maximum profitability and team member productivity.
3. Accountable for developing expenditure accountability for the firm
   
   • Oversee the firm's fiscal activity
   • Monitor financial performance by measuring and analyzing results, initiating corrective actions, and minimizing the impact of variances
   • Develop financial strategies by forecasting capital, facilities, and staff requirements; identifying monetary resources; and developing action plans
   • Review major vendor proposals, negotiating for best outcome, and make recommendations
   • Accomplish finance human resource strategies by determining accountabilities, communicating, and enforcing values, policies and procedures, planning, monitoring, and creating objective and competitive compensation strategies
4. Accountable to maintain a high level of confidentiality while providing leadership and oversight to the accounting department
   
   • Provide leadership and oversight of 6-8 finance personnel, either directly or indirectly
   • Mentor and develop team members, managing work allocation, systems training, performance evaluations, and the building of an effective and efficient team dynamic
   • Maintain compliance and regulatory knowledge ensuring the department's compliance with the Internal Revenue Service, State Attorney General, Louisiana Bar Association, and other relevant financial and tax-related regulations while ensuring adherence to accounting standards

Skills/Abilities

• Financial planning and strategy, including budget development and forecasting
• Managing profitability
• Strategic planning and vision
• Quality management
• Promotion of process improvement
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality
• Effective communication
• Technology expertise
• Willingness to perform any/all tasks as assigned by firm leadership in support of the firm's growth and success

Education and Experience

• MBA or bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, or equivalent experience
• CPA or CGMA certification a plus
• Minimum 10 years' experience in accounting and financial management practices
• Experience in a senior management/C-suite position

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift to 15 pounds at times

The Perks of Being Part of Our Laborde Earles Community

• Optional companywide events allowing you to play as hard as you work, such as Crawfish Boils, Christmas parties, Retreats, and more!

• Work-life balance is encouraged as we consider 36.5 hours your full-time requirement and we rarely exceed a 40-hour workweek. We prefer you work to live, not live to work.
• We celebrate life's little (& big) moments with you from birthdays & work anniversaries to marriages and births, as well as, support you when the going gets tough from procedures/hospitalizations to loss of a loved one.
• Collaboration and team member rapport is cheered and emboldened.
• We offer many competitive benefits upon eligibility waiting periods:
  
  • Company-paid Short-term disability & Life/AD&D;
  • Health, vision, dental, long-term disability, critical illness, and additional life insurance policies upon eligibility waiting periods;
  • 401(k) and profit sharing options upon eligibility waiting periods;
  • PTO, paid holidays (10), and paid maternity leave;
  • Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), including dependent care;
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Who We Are

We are a team and community-oriented personal injury law firm dedicated to winning for our clients who have had their lives turned upside down from injuries through no fault of their own. With multiple offices across Louisiana, we focus on ensuring people get maximum monetary compensation for various types of personal injuries or loss of a loved one from incidents like car wrecks, truck accidents, offshore, and workplace injuries. Our founders joined forces to build the premier law firm in Louisiana. With over 250 years of combined experience, our attorneys have earned a powerful reputation and have been nationally recognized as top trial lawyers. As a dedicated and high-performing team, we pride ourselves in our core values: All In, Work Hard, Play Hard, Honorable, Cutting Edge, Community, and Winners, Not Whiners. With all the proper tools in place, our mission is to stand up for our clients, stand with our community, stand by our work, and stand beside each other. You may begin your journey with Laborde Earles for many different reasons, but you stay for the team.

Our Core Values

All In: Being fully committed to a task or endeavor. Giving 110% for the team and our common goals.

Work Hard, Play Hard: Emphasizing work life balance. Putting in the hard work for the clients that depend on us as well as turning work-mode off sometimes to add fun, laughter, and relaxation into our routines.

Honorable: Making moral and just decisions, having an ownership mentality, being reputable and respectable through your work product, client and teammate interactions, and personal and family life.

Cutting Edge: Having the most advanced or newest version of a product or service, ensuring that we are functioning at our highest capacity as a firm, both effective and efficient.

Community: Being a pillar for the surrounding area and the people within by rallying for and supporting them through giving back and volunteering. Supporting the constant growth and improvement of ourselves and each other.

Winners, Not Whiners: Being a team-player even when the going gets tough to support the goals of our team and the firm, maintaining a positive outlook through the day-to-day challenges and setbacks, celebrating the wins and successes, being willing to step in and help for the sake of the common goals we strive to achieve.