Your Responsibilities on the TeamFinancial Management
• Drive the legal department’s annual budget, monthly/quarterly forecasting, and variance analysis,
partnering closely with Finance.
• Track and analyze outside counsel spend against budgets and rate agreements; produce vendor
and firm performance scorecards.
• Build and maintain recurring reporting packages covering legal spend, outside counsel costs,
matter volumes, accruals, and department KPIs.
• Develop dashboards and management reporting that translate operational and legal data into
clear insights for leadership and the board.
Reporting Automation
• Design and build automated, repeatable reporting workflows that reduce manual effort and
improve the timeliness and accuracy of recurring reports.
• Automate the collection and consolidation of data from e-billing and matter management systems
into standardized, reusable report templates.
• Maintain data quality and reporting controls to ensure a single, reliable source of truth for the
department’s financials.
Legal Operations & Vendor Management
• Administer the e-billing and spend management program, including billing-guideline compliance,
invoice review workflows, and accrual tracking.
• Administer and optimize legal technology systems (matter management, spend management,
contract lifecycle tools) as reliable sources of reporting data.
• Lead the creation and ongoing management of the law firm panel, and support outside counsel
management, including rate negotiations and alternative fee arrangement analysis.
• Analyze outside counsel cost trends and value delivery, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Drive process improvements that increase data quality, cost transparency, and operational
efficiency across the legal team.
Analysis & Business Partnership
• Serve as the finance partner to the Legal Department, providing analysis and reporting that
informs department decisions.
• Partner with Finance, Accounting, and Procurement on budgeting, accruals, and vendor matters.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and modeling to support strategic decisions (in-sourcing vs.
outsourcing, headcount planning, technology investments).
• Identify trends and cost drivers, and recommend actions to improve efficiency and predictability of
legal spend.