Legal Staff Accounting/Finance in Indianapolis, IN

Law Firm

Indianapolis, IN

Legal Staff Accounting/Finance in Indianapolis, IN

Legal Staff

3-5 yrs required

No

SENIOR PRICING ANALYST

JOB TITLE: Senior Pricing Analyst

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Senior Pricing Analyst at the law firm is responsible for a range of tasks that support the pricing team and the firm’s strategic initiatives. Key responsibilities include:
- Providing counsel and support to lawyers and other firm personnel in developing pricing proposals, matter budgets, and profitability efforts, and leading matter pricing efforts when required.
- Supporting the Pricing and Legal Project Management teams in internal and client-facing reporting, which involves ongoing reporting-improvement initiatives and collaboration with the financial reporting and analysis team.
- Analyzing historical and current data to support the development of pricing proposals and responses to requests for proposals (RFPs), and leading RFP responses when required.
- Offering market insight, competitive intelligence, and innovative thinking on pricing strategies.
- Acting as a supplementary stakeholder and subject matter expert on the firm’s business intelligence software to provide strategic analytics relating to pricing and project management.
- Serving as a supplementary administrator of the firm’s matter management technology.
- Assessing and analyzing internal data and converting findings into actionable reports to establish or affirm firm priorities.
- Improving data integrity to drive effective decision-making.
- Collaborating with the Client Growth team on client pitches, proposals, and RFP responses to competitively price legal work based on best practices.
- Assisting with the enhancement and development of budgeting templates and other tools for use by firm attorneys and legal operations personnel.
- Producing metrics for internal and external reporting provided to the legal operations department and firm leadership, including data extraction from the firm’s financial databases and contributing new meaningful metrics, especially at a portfolio level.
- Utilizing data visualization tools such as Power BI to empower leadership to make efficient and effective decisions.
- Providing support in response to ad-hoc requests from firm attorneys and leadership.
- Performing other duties as assigned.

The position requires the ability to perform all essential job duties and responsibilities satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodations. Reasonable accommodation requests may be accommodated unless they cause undue hardship to the firm.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE INFORMATION:
- A Bachelor’s degree, which provides knowledge of statistical, financial, and accounting principles, is required.
- Related experience, ideally within a law firm or professional services organization, is preferred.
- The candidate must have superior written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce and present succinct reports, analyses, proposals, recommendations, and demonstrations to firm stakeholders.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint, is necessary, with expert fluency in Excel required (pivot tables, vlookups, macros, embedded formulas, etc.).
- The candidate must be proactive with strong time management and organizational skills, capable of coordinating multiple projects simultaneously and prioritizing workload accordingly.
- A self-motivated person with a positive and professional attitude is required.
- Strong analytical, evaluative, and critical thinking skills are necessary, along with the ability to effectively communicate findings to attorneys and firm management clearly and concisely.
- The candidate must possess a demonstrated understanding of both the practice and the business of law and independently identify new areas of opportunity to help solve business challenges.
- Demonstrated experience managing hourly and alternative fee arrangements is required.

SALARY INFORMATION:
The text does not provide specific salary information for the Senior Pricing Analyst position.

WORKING CONDITIONS:
- The role is situated in a normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, temperature, and the like.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND DIVERSITY STATEMENT:
The law firm is committed to equal employment opportunity in both principle and as a matter of policy. The firm will recruit, hire, train, promote, compensate, and provide benefits to all applicants and employees without regard to ancestry, sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, religion, religious creed, mental and/or physical disability, medical condition, military and/or veteran’s status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws. This policy applies to all recruiting, hiring, promotions, upgrades, layoffs, compensation, benefits, terminations, and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment. The firm complies fully with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws.