Job Description
Outsourced CFO & Profitability Advisor – Small Law Firms (Remote)
- Position type: Full-time
- Location: Remote, United States
- Salary: $110,000 – $182,000 per year
- Department / Category: Finance
- Experience: Senior (8+ years)
Do the client work you love. Skip the rest.
You know the moment. An owner says, “We’re busy, but there’s no cash.” You dig in and find it: pricing that hasn’t changed in years, unbilled hours, slow collections, a hire that never paid for itself. You explain it in plain English, and you watch it click.
That’s this job. Here’s what isn’t: finding clients, writing proposals, sending invoices, chasing payments, or wondering where next quarter’s revenue will come from. How To MANAGE a Small Law Firm brings you a full roster of law firm owners who already want help, plus the systems to serve them well. You get a steady salary, benefits, and a team behind you.
Full-time W-2 | 100% Remote | $110K base + per-client pay | About $182K at a full client roster
What you’ll do
As our Outsourced CFO & Profitability Advisor, you’ll be the financial leader and trusted advisor for a roster of solo and small law firm owners. Law firms are professional services businesses, where the people are the production engine, so the levers will feel familiar.
- Find where the money goes: pricing, margins, utilization, collections, and cash flow.
- Build the numbers: models, forecasts, cash flow plans, and KPI dashboards, using our templates and tools.
- Advise on the big decisions: when to hire, how to price, how much capacity the firm really has, and how to grow profitably.
- “Drive results: establish financial priorities with each owner, hold them accountable, and help turn recommendations into measurable improvements.”
How the client roster works
You’ll gradually build a roster of up to 30 clients during your first four months. Each client gets a monthly advisory meeting and a quarterly deep dive. We provide the client roster, plus the templates and dashboards you’ll use with every firm, so your time goes to analysis and advice, not to finding clients or building spreadsheets from scratch.
Pay and benefits
- $110,000 guaranteed base salary
- Plus $200 per month for each client you serve. At a full roster of 30 clients, total compensation is about $182,000.
- Medical, dental, and vision (75% paid by us), 401(k) match, and unlimited PTO
- 100% remote, with travel to U.S. events a couple of times a year
- Inc. 5000 every year since 2013
Where great candidates come from
You might be a strong fit if your background includes:
- Fractional, outsourced, or virtual CFO work
- Client advisory services (CAS) at a CPA firm, as an advisory manager, senior manager, or director
- An outsourced accounting or CFO firm serving small businesses
- Finance leadership at a professional services firm (consulting, engineering, accounting, architecture, IT services) where you also advised outside clients
What you need
- 8+ years in finance, including advising multiple small-business owners (not only your own employer) on pricing, profitability, and cash flow.
- Hands-on modeling: you build the models yourself and turn them into advice owners act on.
- Proven results: you can point to a client whose profit, pricing, or margins improved because of your work, and show the numbers.
- Plain-English communication: you can explain the numbers to owners who aren’t finance people.
Strong pluses: experience with professional services metrics (utilization, realization, capacity, revenue per head) and Profit First certification or a similar way of thinking.
Legal industry experience is not required. We’ll teach you the law-firm specifics.
Good to know before you apply
- This is your full-time practice. It’s a W-2 role, so outside consulting clients aren’t allowed.
- It’s advisory work across many firms, not an in-house CFO, controller, or bookkeeping role.
- The interview includes a short, hands-on working session so you can show how you think through a firm’s numbers.
- You must live in one of these states: AZ, CO, FL, GA, ID, IL, LA, MD, MI, MO, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA, WV.
- You must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
How to apply
Click Apply, upload your resume, and answer a short question about one client you helped: what was wrong with their numbers, what you changed, and what improved.
