# Director, Legal Financial Operations

**Company**: The Cigna Group
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,100 - $216,900 USD / yearly
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a strategic financial leader to help design and mature the financial operating model for our Legal organization. As Director, Legal Financial Operations, you will serve as a trusted advisor to Legal leadership, shaping financial strategy and enabling better decisions through disciplined planning, forecasting, analytics, and governance.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the Legal organization's budgeting, forecasting, accrual, and annual financial planning processes.

- Develop and deliver financial reporting, dashboards, and analytics that provide meaningful insights into legal spend and operational performance.

- Partner with Legal leadership and enterprise stakeholders to provide financial analysis and recommendations that support strategic decision-making.

- Monitor financial performance, identify trends, and support resource planning and allocation decisions.

- Establish and maintain financial governance processes to improve the accuracy, consistency, and transparency of Legal financial data.

- Leverage Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) and e-billing technologies to support reporting, analytics, and operational decision-making.

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to simplify, standardize, and enhance financial and operational processes.

- Support strategic Legal Operations initiatives and special projects as needed.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Legal Operations, or a related field.

- 8+ years of experience in Legal Operations, legal finance, financial planning and analysis, business operations, financial operations, accounting, or a related discipline.

- Experience supporting a Legal department, law firm, Legal Operations organization, or legal spend management function strongly desired.

- Experience leading budgeting, forecasting, accrual management, financial reporting, variance analysis, and financial planning activities.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders, drive decision-making, identify cost-saving opportunities, and translate complex data into actionable business insights.

- Experience working collaboratively across multiple functions and levels of leadership.

- Experience utilizing Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) and e-billing technologies, including TeamConnect, Collaborati, CounselLink, Legal Tracker, or similar platforms.

- MBA, CPA, CMA, or other relevant professional certification is a plus.

This is a highly visible individual contributor role with significant enterprise impact.

The position is open to remote and office-based candidates across the U.S., with a preference for candidates located near a The Cigna Group office.

The anticipated annual salary for this position is $130,100 - $216,900 USD, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

The role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus and long-term incentive plan.

Benefits include medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs, 401(k), company-paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence.

## Skills

### Required
- Financial Planning
- Analysis
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Accounting
- Communication
- Problem-Solving
- ELM
- E-billing

### Nice to have
- MBA
- CPA
- CMA
- TeamConnect
- Collaborati
- CounselLink
- Legal Tracker

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