Manager of Business Intelligence

At Fried Frank, we're a community of 800 lawyers and 500 business services professionals across New York, Washington, DC, London, Frankfurt, and Brussels. We advise leading corporations, investment funds, and financial institutions on high-stakes M&A, securities, regulatory matters, real estate, and litigation. Our culture is grounded in our core values — excellence, integrity and collaboration — and is designed to foster continuous learning, meaningful mentorship, and lasting professional growth. We are firmly committed to pro bono service and social justice, building on a proud legacy in civil rights. Our inclusive talent strategy is a core part of our broader talent management efforts and we remain steadfast in fostering a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to grow, thrive, and become their best professional and personal selves. Our business services professionals are integral to the firm's success, driving innovation, operational excellence and exceptional client service across all areas of the firm. We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package, including comprehensive medical coverage, retirement plans and health and wellness initiatives designed to support your personal and professional wellbeing. We welcome passionate, driven individuals to join us, and be part of a team where you'll be supported, inspired and empowered to build an exceptional career.

Fried Frank is seeking a Manager of Business Intelligence to lead the firm's BI and reporting function. This is a player-coach role: the person will manage a team of two BI developers/analysts — setting priorities, managing the reporting backlog, and ensuring quality technical delivery — while also personally building and maintaining Power BI reports and datasets, since a team of two doesn't require full-time management.
The firm's reporting environment today includes legacy SSRS reports on a SQL Server backend, and is actively transitioning to Power BI, with a further transition to Microsoft Fabric where the underlying data and workload justify it. The core mission of this role is to drive that modernization while simplifying the reporting landscape — the firm currently maintains over 200 financial reports alone, in addition to a smaller set of non-financial reports. This person will look for opportunities to rationalize and simplify that portfolio where appropriate, consolidating or retiring reports as warranted, without lowering — and ideally while raising — the level of service the firm experiences: reporting needs to stay highly available and highly usable throughout.
Much of the firm's core reporting ultimately sources from Elite 3E financial data, so familiarity with 3E's data model is a significant asset. Experience in legal or professional services is strongly preferred. Beyond migration and consolidation, this role is also expected to help the firm take advantage of emerging AI-assisted reporting capabilities — such as Microsoft Copilot for Power BI/Fabric — to make reporting more self-service and accessible to non-technical business users over time.

Key Responsibilities
Team & Backlog Leadership
•    Manage and develop a team of two BI professionals — setting clear priorities, providing technical guidance, and holding the team accountable for quality delivery.
•    Own the BI/reporting intake and backlog process: triage new requests, prioritize against business value and modernization strategy, and set realistic delivery timelines.
•    Balance personal hands-on delivery with management responsibilities — this role is expected to remain a working BI developer, not purely a supervisor.

Reporting Modernization & Rationalization
•    Lead the ongoing migration of legacy SSRS reports to Power BI, and subsequently to Microsoft Fabric where appropriate, exercising judgment about which reports genuinely warrant migration versus retirement.
•    Conduct a comprehensive review of the firm's report catalog — starting with the 200+ financial reports — to identify opportunities to consolidate, simplify, or retire reports where appropriate.
•    Define and maintain lightweight report governance (ownership, lifecycle, naming, deprecation process) to keep the reporting environment well-organized as it evolves.
•    Simplify and standardize underlying data models and semantic layers to minimize duplicated logic across reports and support a leaner, more maintainable reporting architecture.

AI-Enabled & Self-Service Reporting
•    Evaluate and pilot AI-assisted reporting capabilities such as Microsoft Copilot for Power BI/Fabric — including natural-language querying and AI-assisted report generation — to expand self-service access to reporting for non-technical business users.
•    Prepare underlying semantic models (business-friendly naming, clear measure definitions, well-structured relationships) so they can effectively support natural-language querying and AI-assisted analysis — this is a natural extension of the broader data-model simplification work above, not a separate effort.
•    Ensure AI-assisted and natural-language reporting respects the firm's governance requirements, including ethical walls, information barriers, and matter-level access controls, in partnership with the Data Strategy and Security teams.

Service Delivery & Availability
•    Ensure the reporting environment — legacy SSRS, Power BI, and Fabric as it's adopted — remains highly available and performant throughout the transition.
•    Maintain or improve user-facing service levels (accuracy, refresh timeliness, usability) even as the underlying platform and report set change.
•    Establish validation practices to confirm migrated or consolidated reports match legacy output before cutover, so business users experience no degradation in trust or accuracy.

Hands-On Technical Delivery
•    Personally design, build, and maintain Power BI reports, dashboards, and datasets, including complex financial reporting.
•    Write and optimize SQL queries against the firm's SQL Server backend and, increasingly, Fabric-based sources.
•    Partner with the Director of Data Strategy's team on the underlying data platform to ensure BI reporting is well-supported by upstream data structures.

Financial & Domain Reporting
•    Develop working familiarity with Elite 3E's financial data model, since most core financial reporting ultimately sources from 3E.
•    Partner with Finance and other business stakeholders to translate reporting requirements into well-designed, maintainable BI solutions.

Stakeholder Communication
•    Communicate clearly with both the technical team and non-technical business stakeholders — attorneys, practice group leaders, finance staff — about reporting capabilities, timelines, and tradeoffs.
•    Partner with the Director of Enterprise Architecture on architecture and design standards for the BI/reporting environment.

Qualifications
Required
•    7+ years of progressive business intelligence/reporting experience, including at least 2 years in a lead, supervisory, or mentoring capacity.
•    Hands-on expertise in Power BI: report and dashboard design, DAX, data modeling, and Power Query.
•    Strong SQL Server/T-SQL skills, including the ability to write and optimize queries against a relational backend.
•    Familiarity with SSRS, sufficient to understand and evaluate legacy reports during migration.
•    Demonstrated experience rationalizing or simplifying a reporting environment — consolidating, retiring, or standardizing reports and data models.
•    Experience managing a small team while remaining personally hands-on as an individual contributor.
•    Strong backlog management and stakeholder prioritization skills.
•    Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred
•    Experience in legal or another professional services environment, ideally with exposure to Elite 3E or a similar practice/financial management platform — strongly preferred.
•    Working knowledge of Azure data services (Azure SQL, Microsoft Fabric capacity and workspace concepts) sufficient to operate effectively within the firm's cloud data platform — deep Azure infrastructure or architecture expertise is not required, as that is owned by the Enterprise Architecture and Development teams.
•    Experience with Microsoft Fabric or willingness to build that expertise quickly.
•    Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) certification; Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600) certification is a strong plus given the firm's Fabric roadmap.
•    Experience with, or strong interest in, AI-assisted BI tools such as Microsoft Copilot for Power BI/Fabric, and an understanding of how to prepare semantic models to support natural-language querying effectively.