Legal Project Analyst

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The Legal Project Analyst supports delivery of the firms Legal Project Management (LPM) core services for identified large and complex client relationships. The Legal Project Analyst assists with budgeting and financial oversight billing guideline and AFA compliance budgeting reporting and process improvement throughout the clients matter lifecycle. The Legal Project Analyst increases transparency reduces administrative burden on attorneys and helps improve financial outcomes and client satisfaction.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct analysis to help identify issues working closely with the Legal Project Manager to provide guidance to client teams to streamline and improve the firms legal teams processes and gain efficiencies.

• Assist with matter and portfolio budget setup; populate budget templates and trackers.

• Maintain budget-to-actuals and variance tracking; draft reforecast updates.

• Prepare monthly accruals inputs and schedule reminders; reconcile accruals to invoices/WIP.

• Track WIP AR realization write-offs and collections status; prepare routine dashboards or summary reports; flag variances aging and risks; draft recommendations for review and action.

• Maintain action logs for financial interventions and follow-through.

• Maintain client OCG summaries quick reference guides and distribution lists.

• Coordinate with Billing/Finance to ensure client-specific setups (e.g. rates discounts matter attributes) are accurate and enforced.

• Monitor AR aging and collections milestones; prepare weekly/monthly collection status updates.

• Support dispute resolution and write-off documentation; maintain audit trail of decisions and outcomes.

• Assist with brief trainings tip sheets and quick reference materials; help measure adoption and gather feedback.

• As part of client onboarding to LPM services review initial time entries and bills to ensure compliance with outside counsel guidelines providing feedback and initial training to support effective integration.

• Identify and support the implementation of process improvements for the legal team for tasks related to time entry reporting billing and client compliance.

• Support the implementation use and development of LPM best practices tools and software.

• Liaise with other business services teams (e.g. Pricing/Finance/IT/Marketing/Business Development) and vendors to support partners and their clients/matters.

• Develop a strong understanding of identified legal terms including matter timelines and processes to assist in reviewing and highlighting issues that need Attorney attention.

• Develop processes to highlight and address issues quickly; create processes and corresponding documentation that could be replicated across the various legal teams as required.

• Provide requested financial data and analysis.

• Seek out opportunities to improve the Legal Project Management function.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Professionalism integrity sound judgment and discretion regarding sensitive and confidential matters.

• Ability to work independently and on a team with limited supervision and to collaborate effectively across administrative departments and practice groups in all offices.

• Foundational understanding of the legal matter lifecycle and legal operations concepts.

• Solid financial literacy including knowledge of key concepts such as budgets accruals WIP/AR realization forecasting and variance analysis.

• Service mindset and the ability to take the initiative think critically identify and solve problems and marshal appropriate resources.

• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships and gain the trust of the attorneys and professional staff.

• Strong organizational skills reflect the ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks and execute with attention to detail even under pressure.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills specifically regarding time entry.

• Awareness and understanding of business processes and ability to identify areas for process improvement to develop and implement best practices.

• Motivated self-starter who has been successful working in a high-performance fast-moving dynamic environment.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite required with strength in using Excel (e.g. lookups pivot tables); demonstrated ability to learn and utilize additional technology solutions quickly.

• Adaptability to evolving client requirements and internal priorities.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelors degree in accounting finance business administration legal studies or related field; paralegal certification or equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in a legal legal operations or professional services environment (e.g. paralegal legal practice assistant billing/eBilling pricing/finance or project coordination).

• Experience with relevant financial systems such as Aderant or similar financial system; CounselLink Legal Tracker or TyMetrix; InTapp Time; HighQ/SharePoint; Tableau/Power BI.

• Familiarity with outside counsel guidelines alternative fee arrangements and eBilling workflows.

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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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Troutman Pepper Locke adheres to a policy of equal opportunity and will make all employment decisions which include hiring promotion transfer demotion evaluation compensation and separation without regard to race color religion sex age sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin pregnancy citizenship disability genetic information marital or armed forces status and any other classification as protected by law.

Compensation is dependent on several factors such as position location education training and/or experience.