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Practice Manager, Shared Services
De-Podium Professional Services • Lagos
Posted: 20 October 2026Deadline: 19 December 2026
📋 Requirements
- •Own the pipeline for both firms: every enquiry logged, qualified, assigned and followed up, with a pipeline review held with the Managing Partner every month.
📝 Description
- •The role
- •You will run the shared operations and finance function for both firms, and oversee business development jointly with the Managing Partner.
- •Your job is to make sure each firm delivers its work on time, bills and collects what it earns, keeps its own records and accounts, and has a steady, well managed flow of new work.
- •The partners own client relationships, technical work and legal practice.
- •You own the systems, records, reporting and commercial discipline that let them grow.
- •Many of these systems are still being built, so this role suits someone who builds, not only someone who maintains.
- •What you will do
- •Business development oversight jointly with the Managing Partner
- •Work with the Managing Partner to set and run the annual business development plan for each firm: target sectors, target clients, and the activities and owners behind them.
- •Own the pipeline for both firms: every enquiry logged, qualified, assigned and followed up, with a pipeline review held with the Managing Partner every month.
- •Lead proposal management from brief to submission, including scope, fee build-up, formatting and deadlines.
- •Track win and loss outcomes on every proposal and report what the firms are winning, losing and why.
- •Run the annual client review cycle across the top accounts of each firm, and flag cross-selling and repricing opportunities to the partners.
- •Coordinate referrals between De-Podium and Sola Dada, making sure each referral is recorded and the right firm engages and invoices the client.
- •Oversee the marketing calendar, client events, thought leadership and online presence, working with partners to turn their expertise into content.
- •Finance, billing and reporting separately for each firm
- •Run the billing cycle for each firm: invoices raised promptly under the correct entity and collections followed up against agreed payment terms.
- •Keep a receivables ledger for each firm and report debtor ageing to the partners monthly.
- •Prepare a monthly management report for each firm covering fee income against target, pipeline, cash, receivables and cost against budget.
- •Allocate shared costs between the firms on the agreed basis and record intercompany charges and referral arrangements.
- •Make sure client funds are held and reconciled in dedicated client accounts, separate from operating accounts.
- •Support the annual budget and standalone annual accounts for each firm, and manage office administration and vendors.
- •Engagement and delivery management
- •Keep an engagement and matter tracker for each firm showing every active job, its stage, team, deadline and status.
- •Make sure engagement letters and agreed scopes are signed before any work begins.
- •Run the quality review checklist so that deliverables are reviewed and signed off before release.
- •Systems, compliance and administration
- •Implement and run the practice management, time recording and document systems, with access controls that keep each firm’s client files separate.
- •Keep a statutory compliance calendar for each entity covering CAC, tax and professional body filings, and make sure filings are on time.
- •Run the weekly operational meeting and the monthly management meeting for each firm, and track agreed actions to completion.
- •What we are looking for
- •A first degree in accounting, finance, business administration or a related discipline.
- •At least five years in a professional services firm accounting, tax, consulting or legal, with at least two in a practice management, operations, finance or business development role.
- •Evidence that you have built something: a billing cycle, a pipeline process, a reporting pack or a system that did not exist before you arrived.
- •Hands-on experience managing a sales or business development pipeline and preparing proposals for corporate clients.
- •Sound financial literacy: you can build a budget, read management accounts and explain a variance.
- •Working knowledge of CAC and CAMA requirements and the Nigeria Tax Act 2025 regime.
- •Advanced Excel, clear and concise writing, and the confidence to hold partners to agreed processes and deadlines.
- •Discretion with confidential client and financial information, including respect for legal professional privilege.
- •It would be an advantage if you have
- •A professional qualification in accounting ICAN, ACCA or ANAN, completed or in progress.