Senior Financial Analyst

Consultative Search Group•Los Angeles, CA

34d•Hybrid

About The Position

Our Client is a reputable regional Professional Services Firm based in Downtown Los Angeles and they're seeking an dynamic and growth oriented Sr. Financial Analyst to join their accomplished corporate Finance Team. They are on Hybrid Work Schedule with 1-2 days onsite. Summary: The Senior Financial Analyst position will play a key role in formulating pricing strategies and managing billing activity against client expectations in partnership with attorneys. This position will be responsible for creating budgets and forecasts as well as responding to competitive requests for proposals.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree required.
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, and 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.
VoIP, web, and video applications
Software systems, particularly: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, OneNote) SQL, SSRS, R, or Python Iridium BI, Budget Manager, 3E, and dashboard tools

Nice To Haves

MBA or advanced degree preferred.
Prior law firm experience is helpful, but not required.

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 spending and 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
Approve AFA-related bills and billings’ responses to client requests that might have more client or attorney sensitivities
Other projects/initiatives as assigned (e.g. determine causes of data quality issues and recommend improvements, assist in documenting processes and participate in process improvement initiatives).