Senior Business Analyst Job at Ropes & Gray
About Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray LLP is a preeminent global law firm focused on providing the highest-quality advice on our clients’ critical legal and business issues. Our global team of 2,500 talented professionals regularly helps clients meet high-stakes challenges, solve complex problems and achieve key goals. These colleagues work together across a global office network that includes offices in Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
We are a contemporary firm that can bring more than 150 years of legal and institutional history to bear on the challenges clients face in today’s 24/7 global business environment. Our collaborative approach gives our clients—which include many of the world’s most respected companies and institutions—ready access to leading corporate, litigation, transactional and regulatory lawyers whose knowledge and experience span industries and geographies.
With an international presence, we focus on a number of key industries, including private equity; asset management; life sciences and health care; investment banking; technology, media and telecommunications; and consumer and retail. Our clients include global industry leaders, financial institutions, investment firms, private equity firms, hospitals and health care organizations, educational institutions, and individuals.
We have consistently been recognized for our leading practices in many areas, including private equity, M&A, finance, asset management, real estate, tax, antitrust, life sciences, health care, intellectual property, litigation & enforcement, privacy & cybersecurity, and business restructuring.
Ropes & Gray is an equal opportunity employer.
JOB SUMMARY:
The legal market is undergoing a period of hyper-change, driving opportunities for innovative thinking and diverse professional experiences. The Client Operations Services & LPM (Legal Project Management) team thrives on these changes, residing at the intersection of legal operations, process improvement, technology, data storytelling, client service and legal practice. Our mission is to strengthen Ropes & Gray's client relationships and optimize the delivery of legal operations services by developing innovative tools and processes that drive efficiency and meet our clients' evolving priorities.
The role of the senior analyst is to drive profitable matter management and effective client relationship management through a focus on a particular industry and/or legal practice area to generate insights, including risk factors and cost drivers unique to that industry or practice. The senior analyst will build tools and templates that incorporate those insights, as well as provide qualitative and quantitative analytics and data storytelling.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Delivers successful outcomes for client relationships and matters by consolidating and analyzing financial data, and leveraging business intelligence tools.
- Responsible for execution of client support processes for portfolio of firm clients.
- Draws on firm’s best practices and resources, practice group priorities and an overall understanding of each specific client’s operational priorities and legal operations in supporting clients and legal teams.
- Assembles and summarizes data to structure sophisticated reports (e.g. cost estimates, complex budgets and progress reports) on financial status and risks.
- Provides creative alternatives and recommendations to reduce costs and improve financial performance, including opportunities for legal team efficiencies.
- Provides key insights and recommends tools and best practices for profitable management of legal matters using legal project management tools and principles, learnings about clients and matters, and legal practice/industry experience.
- Seeks out opportunities to scale team service model and flag opportunities for team efficiencies.
- Leverages effective facilitation and collaboration skills to partner with cross functional stakeholders at the firm.
ESSENTIAL CAPABILITIES:
- Able to maintain strict confidentiality of the firm's internal and personnel affairs and client information. Understands ethics of position including legal ethics rules in regards to confidentiality, billing and client representation and advocacy.
- Must be team-oriented and transparent, confident sharing information, goals, opportunities, successes and failures.
- Collaborates effectively and professionally at all levels of the organization, including with attorneys, coworkers and administrators. Able to influence stakeholders.
- Must be flexible in order to respond quickly and positively to shifting demands and opportunities. Able to work under tight deadlines, handle multiple, detailed tasks simultaneously, prioritize appropriately and delegate to resources available.
- Able to effectively work in a multi-office environment and a culturally and educationally diverse environment.
- Must be flexible to meet the demands of working at a global law firm and available for travel.
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:
- A bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of experience working in a law firm, corporate legal department, financial institution or other large complex organization is required.
- Excellent technology skills including Excel and ability to learn business intelligence and collaboration software (e.g., MicroStrategy, HighQ) required.
- Analytics experience and comfort with numbers, acquired through academic study or job experience.
- Ability to effectively communicate qualitative and quantitative insights via strong written and verbal communication; experience presenting to diverse audiences.
- A strong project management orientation is critical, including strong business analytics, critical thinking, trouble-shooting, problem-solving and project management skills.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
The team is operating on a hybrid work schedule (in-office three days, remote two days).
Incumbent is expected to work the hours necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of the position. The above job description is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of essential functions, responsibilities or requirements. Firm management reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs.
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