Description
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate creation and management of the corporate shared services budget, including tracking decisions that will require an increase or decrease in budget line items for the following financial year (FY).
- Implement costing processes that encourage rebilling of qualifying expenses to legal practices and client cases.
- Produce regular reports on spend, including actuals, forecasts, variance to budget, expenses, allocations, and shared service cost breakdowns/allocations.
- Review, approve, and allocate invoices, ensuring invoiced amounts match contracted spend.
- Collaborate with global and local finance counterparts to establish standard cost allocation & reporting categories.
- Analyze budget spend to provide insight on areas needing optimization.
- Develop financial controls for all spend, as well as approval processes/matrices.
- Assist with project costing, projections, and ROI analysis.
- Ensure cost management policies are created and kept up to date in line with Global Accounting and Procurement practices across the firm.
- Partner with Global Procurement to roll out systematic controls and process to support Procure to Pay methodologies for all Corporate Overheads.
- Participate in internal and third-party financial audits where required.
- Handle various assignments from Senior Leadership and Global Heads to support their respective goals and business operations.
Duties other than the above may also be assigned.
Required Education/Experience
- Bachelors Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field preferred.
- Require advanced proficiency within Microsoft Excel with emphasis on highly complex formulas/functions.
- Experience working with Corporate Overheads or Information Technology spend preferred.
- Experience with Power BI or other virtualization/dashboarding tools is a major plus.
- Experience working in a Law Firm or with revenue cycles would be a major plus.
- Experience with Thomson Reuters 3E and Chrome River would be a plus.
Key Competencies
- Works mostly independently with minimal supervision. Determines own approach to assigned tasks of moderate complexity.
- Effectively leads small-medium cost analysis projects. Able to give effective presentations and write convincing proposals/reports.
- Completed adhoc reporting as requested by stakeholders and provides proactive analytics to support business cases/decisions.
- Follows approval processes and makes suggestions for improvement.
Required Experience
- 2 - 4 years in a financial analyst role, including budgets, forecasts, reporting, and accounting controls.
What we offer:
- Hybrid work schedule
- Flexible time off & 11 paid holidays per calendar year
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401K Safe Harbor contribution
- Flexible Spending Account
- Commuter Benefits
Our Values:
Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavors and strengthen our delivery, for our clients and our firm. We:
- Work as one - We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
- Excel with clients - We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the center of everything we do
- Celebrate difference - We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
- Act boldly - We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognizing that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth.
Clyde & Co is a leading, sector-focused global law firm with 440 partners, 1800 lawyers, 2500 legal professionals, and 4000 staff in over 50 offices and associated offices worldwide. The firm specializes in the sectors that move, build and power our connected world and the insurance that underpins it, including: transport, infrastructure, energy, trade & commodities and insurance. With a strong focus on developed and emerging markets, the firm has achieved compound average annual revenue growth of 15% over the last ten years, making it one of the fastest-growing law firms in the world with ambitious plans for further growth.
Principals Only
We offer a rewarding work environment that supports professional growth and opportunities. We value diversity in our workplace and it is the policy of the Firm to recruit, hire, promote, reassign, compensate and train highly qualified persons without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable law.
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This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.
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