Legal Staff Accounting/Finance in Los Angeles, CA

Law Firm

Los Angeles, CA

Legal Staff Accounting/Finance in Los Angeles, CA

Legal Staff

Min 5 yrs required

No

Job Title: Senior Pricing Analyst

Job Responsibilities:
- Support the development of advanced pricing strategies aligned with the firm's financial objectives.
- Aid in the firmwide billing rate setting process, enhancing advanced analyses and producing reports and data visualizations for partner leadership and C-suite stakeholders.
- Assist with the annual client rate review and negotiation processes to ensure competitive positioning while maintaining firm profitability. This includes analyzing and recommending rates across seniority tiers, geographies, and practice areas.
- Produce sophisticated financial analyses using both established and innovative approaches.
- Develop creative alternative fee arrangements that align incentives for both clients and the firm.
- Assist with responding to financial components for Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and pitches.
- Create sensitivity analyses to help partners understand the potential impacts of changes in profit drivers.
- Improve partners' financial literacy through education on the business of law to facilitate optimal commercial decisions for client pricing proposals.
- Contribute to the creation of matter budgets and project plans at the onset for critical client matters in collaboration with the Legal Project Management team.
- Assist with the development of predictive pricing and budgeting tools.
- Leverage the firm’s business intelligence platform to facilitate visualization of complex financial analysis.
- Provide thoughtful analysis and insights regarding firm financial performance, including identifying trends and recommending opportunities to maximize profitability or limit risk.
- Support the development of team processes, checklists, and other critical infrastructure to enhance and accelerate the maturity of the Pricing and Legal Project Management function.
- Draft and edit highly professional, accurate, and actionable email correspondence.

Education and Experience Information:
- Bachelor’s degree required, with a strong preference for a degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics. An MBA is considered a plus.
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant financial analysis experience is required.
- Previous pricing or legal industry experience is necessary.
- Strongly desired experience with SQL and VBA.
- Extensive experience in creating and maintaining complex spreadsheets, including the creative use of formulas, macros, pivot tables, and modeling, is required.
- Experience in using data visualization tools, such as Microsoft PowerBI, is desired.
- Flexibility to adjust work schedule according to workload demands.
- Exceptional attention to detail is necessary.

Salary Information:
- The primary location for this job is Palo Alto, but other locations may be listed. The actual base pay offered will depend on various factors, including the selected candidate’s qualifications, years of relevant experience, level of education, professional certifications and licenses, and work location.
- The anticipated pay range for this position is as follows:
- San Francisco and Silicon Valley: $116,875 - $158,125 per year
- Austin, Boston, Boulder, District of Columbia, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, Seattle, and Wilmington: $105,400 - $142,600 per year
- Salt Lake City and all other locations: $93,500 - $126,500 per year
- The compensation for this position may include a discretionary year-end merit bonus based on performance.
- A highly competitive salary and benefits package is offered.
- Benefits information can be found online.

The position is available as a fully remote or hybrid opportunity, and the law firm is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).

May 24, 2025
May 08, 2025
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