Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP

Job Description

Senior Financial Analyst

Position Type: Full Time, Exempt, Hybrid (1 to 3 Days On site)

Location:          Los Angeles

Salary Range:  $110,000.00 - $130,000.00 *

*The salary range is the one that Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The salary range does not guarantee, obligate, nor set expectations of an applicant’s wage in the event of hire.  The posted range is only one component of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP’s Total Rewards package.

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The Senior Financial Analyst position plays a key role in formulating pricing strategies and managing billing activity against client expectations in partnership with attorneys.  The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for creating budgets and forecasts as well as responding to competitive requests for proposal.  The Senior Financial Analyst develops pricing tools and templates to boost accuracy in future budgeting and forecasting.  This position develops financial analyses and critically reviews results in partnership with various levels of management within the firm.

Job Functions & 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

• Others
  • 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

Tools

• 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

Minimum Job Qualifications

• 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.
• Prior law firm experience is helpful but not required.

Physical Demands

Standing, moving about, walking, sitting at a desk, bending, reaching, lifting up to 15 lbs., writing, typing, and computer use

Working Conditions

Quiet office environment in a high-rise building, seated the majority of the time

Direct Reports

None

Competencies

• Teamwork and Cooperation: Treats others with respect; works well with others; asks for help when necessary; willing to share credit; avoids pointing fingers or assigning blame; volunteers to help others when available to do so; empathetic to others.
• Communication: Communicates clearly and appropriately with adequate frequency and tools; understands the need for regular, timely and high-quality communication; listens actively and asks appropriate questions; understands the message.
• Flexibility: Adapts to changing conditions; willing to do something new/different; open to change; accepting of differences.
• Problem Solving: Seeks solutions to problems; proposes creative and effective solutions to problems; examines underlying cause of problems when seeking a solution.
• Service Focus: Desires to help or serve those requesting service to meet their needs, responsive and available when needed, proactively anticipates needs and expectations and acts accordingly to support the success of the Firm.
• Self-Development: Uses constructive feedback to improve; learns from mistakes; shows eagerness and capacity to learn; attends available training; shows interest in improving self; proactively looks for opportunities to gain experience in a range of responsibilities.
• Organization and Time Management: Orderly in approach to work; able to plan and execute work effectively and accurately; tracks and follows through on requests; maintains a well-organized and clean work area; prioritizes and understands urgency; able to be punctual and prepared; manages multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Composure: Understands what triggers emotions and uses that knowledge to maintain a professional presence.
• Analytical Thinking: Works systematically and logically to analyze information, identify causation and anticipate results.  Investigates issues by drawing on own experience and knowledge and calls on other resources as necessary
• Integrity: Deals with ethical issues appropriately.  Acts in a way that is consistent with Firm values.

The Senior Financial Analyst role is an amazing opportunity available on our team of professionals at Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP! We offer competitive pay, benefits and an opportunity to make an impact in today’s world.

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About Munger, Tolles & Olson

Munger, Tolles & Olson has topped The American Lawyer’s A-List a record ten times, and maintains the highest average A-List ranking in the history of the award.

We strive to hire only the most qualified and creative lawyers. We believe that clerkships provide valuable experience. In this regard, about 80% of our attorneys served as law clerks to federal or state judges and sixteen attorneys were clerks to U.S. Supreme Court Justices. We recruit and retain the best professional talent to support our Attorneys with a focus on service and excellence. We have a full spectrum of functional positions including Information Technology, Information Security, Accounting, Human Resources, Legal Support, and Marketing.

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MTO is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles (for example, braids, locks, and twists), color, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, marital or domestic partner status, parental or family care status, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, disability or medical condition, genetic characteristic, political affiliation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.  It is the policy of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP to prohibit discrimination, unlawful harassment (including sexual harassment), and retaliation.  This commitment prohibits such conduct by any individual involved in MTO’s operations and by anyone doing business with or on behalf of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP.

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