Project Performance Analyst

Gibson Dunn•Palo Alto, CA

8d•$70,000 - $85,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm advising clients on significant transactions and disputes. The Project Performance Analyst, based in any U.S. office, joins the Client Value team and supports the Firm’s global project performance management initiatives. The role works with attorneys and internal stakeholders on budget monitoring, reporting, and fee arrangement tracking across legal matters. The Client Value team drives firmwide growth strategy through standardized pricing and budgeting processes, real-time budget oversight with repricing, and revenue preservation across client fee and commercial negotiations. The Project Performance Management team measures, monitors, and reports on the financial performance of budgeted matters, clients, and portfolios globally. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Project Performance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
Zero to two years of experience.
Strong Excel skills, including lookups and pivot tables, and experience researching, collecting, manipulating, and analyzing data.
Experience with SQL, Azure, Power BI, and Power Pivot.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
Excellent project management and organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
Ability to communicate effectively with personnel at all levels.
Professionalism, strong customer service orientation, commitment to deadlines, and ability to multitask in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Self-motivated and detail-oriented, with comfort working with large data exports.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Interest in law firm finance, pricing, or legal operations.
Prior analyst experience in-house or in a related professional services industry.
Prior law firm experience.
Experience with law firm billing systems such as Aderant.

Responsibilities

Maintain and track the Firm’s alternative fee arrangement matters, flag issues requiring partner attention, and work with the billing department to ensure proper treatment of those matters.
Set up large-scale budget monitoring and proactively address budget variances.
Generate reporting and analysis to help identify at-risk matters.
Support large client portfolio analysis and tracking for some of the Firm’s biggest clients.
Support implementation, use, and development of project performance management best practices, tools, techniques, and responsibilities across practice areas.
Support firmwide practice areas with portfolio analysis and reporting.
Support custom reporting and fee arrangement renewals.
Manage multiple projects concurrently, balancing priorities, deadlines, and project management duties.