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Senior Financial Analyst
| Company | Munger, Tolles, & Olsen |
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| Location | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $110000 – $130000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, MBA |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required
- MBA or advanced degree preferred
- Minimum 4 years of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) experience or related experience involving data analysis and substantial quantitative modeling and forecasting
- Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external clients including attorneys, management, other staff, clients of the firm and, at times, vendors
- Ability to effectively manage internal and external client expectations and build relationships
- Ability to analyze current methods and processes, propose alternatives in a way that builds decision-making consensus
- Ability to organize and prioritize multiple assignments, using judgment and initiative to accomplish results
- Produce accurate work while meeting time-sensitive deadlines
- Ability to work independently and lead projects from inception to delivery with minimal management oversight
- Advanced skills in MS Excel, MS Access, SQL, Word and PowerPoint
- Experience working with a financial or budgeting system
Responsibilities
- Work closely with attorneys to respond to complex budget and pricing structure requests
- Define scope and develop task-based budgets and forecasts
- Assess and recommend alternate pricing proposals
- Prepare risk and reward analyses and win and win analyses
- Oversee all matter budget management for large clients and interact with clients
- Provide attorneys and other department heads with relevant data to help them manage client expectations on legal spend and with business development efforts
- Create and publish budget to actual reports and packages
- Create and optimize dashboards and ad-hoc reports as requested by attorneys and department heads
- Provide customized modeling, performance and benchmarking analyses
- Define a pricing framework for specific litigation tasks or phases
- Define approach, analyze and interpret comparable matter data, and correct for anomalies
- Test hypotheses, refine metrics, and increase the number of exemplars for future use
- Determine causes of data quality problems and recommend improvements
- Identify, troubleshoot and resolve data quality issues and recommend improvements based on findings
- Approve AFA related bills and billings’ responses to client requests that might have more client or attorney sensitivities
- Assist in documenting processes and participate in process improvement initiatives
- Other projects/initiatives as assigned
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior law firm experience is helpful but not required
