Senior Financial Analyst

Overview

This role involves independently performing financial and business analysis, recurring and ad hoc reporting, budgeting and forecasting support, financial modeling, and process improvement. The Senior Financial Analyst will own assigned analyses, processes, and deliverables—organizing work to drive timely completion, identifying issues/risks/opportunities, and engaging Finance leadership for direction and review as appropriate.

Beyond reporting financial results, the role interprets performance, identifies underlying business drivers, and communicates clear, decision-ready insights and recommendations. Ongoing contributions to improving the Finance function include process standardization, automation, business intelligence, and responsible adoption of approved analytical and AI-enabled technologies.

Responsibilities

• Perform detailed financial and business analyses linking financial performance to underlying business drivers at the firm, office, practice group, client, and matter levels.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly variance analyses versus budget, forecast, and prior periods, identifying key revenue and expense drivers, risks, opportunities, and potential actions.
• Synthesize complex financial and operational information into clear, concise, decision-ready insights for Finance and firm leadership.
• Prepare executive summaries, dashboards, presentations, and trend analyses for discussions with senior leadership.
• Develop conclusions and recommendations from analysis rather than simply presenting data.
• Adapt analytical presentation style and level of detail for financial and non-financial audiences.
• Respond to recurring and ad hoc analytical requests from the Finance Manager, Director of Finance, Chief Financial Officer, and other internal stakeholders.
• Support annual budgeting, periodic reforecasting, and multi-period outlook processes across the firm, offices, practice groups, and administrative departments.
• Develop and maintain financial and statistical models supporting revenue/expense forecasting, headcount and compensation planning, productivity, utilization, and other performance metrics.
• Analyze key performance indicators, including realization, utilization, leverage, productivity, cost efficiency, and other measures relevant to law firm financial performance.
• Conduct practice group and office profitability analyses, including matter-level economics, staffing mix, leverage, and other cost and revenue drivers.
• Perform rate and realization analyses focused on performance trends and operational drivers rather than pricing decisions.
• Support working capital analysis, including WIP and accounts receivable trends, aging, collections, and other factors affecting cash flow.
• Assist with financial analysis and responses for external industry publications, benchmarking studies, and surveys as needed.
• Take ownership of assigned recurring processes, analyses, reports, and projects and independently advance work within established deadlines.
• Develop work plans, identify dependencies, resolve routine issues independently, and proactively communicate significant risks, decisions, or obstacles requiring management input.
• Maintain accuracy, consistency, documentation, and data integrity in analytical work.
• Evaluate existing reports and analytical processes and recommend opportunities to simplify, standardize, or eliminate unnecessary work.
• Document recurring processes, analytical methodologies, assumptions, data sources, and validation procedures to support consistency and knowledge transfer.
• Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, and other administrative departments to obtain information, resolve data issues, and complete analytical work.
• Manage multiple priorities and adjust to changing business and leadership priorities.
• Identify opportunities to improve accuracy, speed, scalability, and reliability through technology and process redesign.
• Develop and maintain analytical tools, dashboards, models, and reporting solutions using technologies such as Excel, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Power Query, and other approved platforms.
• Partner with Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, and data teams to improve data quality, reporting structures, and analytical workflows.
• Reduce repetitive manual work through standardization and automation while maintaining appropriate validation and financial controls.
• Participate in Finance transformation initiatives and contribute ideas to improve how the department produces, reviews, communicates, and retains financial analysis.
• Use approved AI-enabled tools responsibly to support planning, analysis, research, quality review, documentation, and other appropriate Finance workflows.
• Personally validate analytical and AI-assisted outputs and apply professional judgment, confidentiality, data security, and quality standards.
• Stay current on emerging technologies and continuously develop technical and analytical skills that improve Finance capabilities.
• Build and maintain productive relationships with Finance colleagues, practice management, Accounting, Information Technology, and other business professionals.
• Communicate financial concepts clearly to non-financial stakeholders and provide appropriate context for analytical findings.
• Own assigned work and analytical processes; push deliverables to completion; identify insights and next steps; and engage management when direction, escalation, or review is needed.
• Ask thoughtful questions, respectfully challenge assumptions when supported by analysis, and seek to understand the business context behind financial results.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of all firm, client, and employee information.

Requirements

• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills with the ability to independently investigate financial questions and synthesize complex information.
• Ability to translate financial and operational data into concise insights, business narratives, and actionable recommendations.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial statements.
• Understanding of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial modeling.
• Working knowledge of law firm or professional services economics and key performance drivers (realization, utilization, leverage, productivity, profitability, WIP, accounts receivable dynamics) or demonstrated ability to learn these concepts quickly.
• Strong project and task ownership, including independently organizing work, advancing deliverables, identifying obstacles, and meeting deadlines.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, including explaining complex financial concepts to non-financial audiences.
• Ability to balance attention to detail with understanding of the broader business purpose of analysis.
• Proactive, solutions-oriented mindset and willingness to investigate issues.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt as business needs change.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, objectivity, and confidentiality.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in remote, hybrid, and in-office environments.
• Commitment to continuous learning and improving analytical, technical, and business-partnering capabilities.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with a strong service orientation.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics, or a related business discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree, CPA, or another relevant advanced credential.
• Experience in a law firm or professional services environment.
• Experience supporting senior leaders or other business decision-makers with financial analysis and presentations.
• Working knowledge of SQL, Power Query, Power Pivot, or comparable data extraction and transformation tools.
• Practical experience with approved AI-enabled analytical or productivity tools.
• Experience improving, standardizing, or automating recurring analytical or reporting processes.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum five (5) years of progressive experience in finance, FP&A, financial analysis, or a related analytical role.
• Demonstrated experience independently performing complex financial analysis, financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, or management reporting.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including complex formulas, PivotTables, financial modeling, and data analysis.
• Experience with ERP/GL, financial reporting, or time-and-billing systems.
• Experience with business intelligence and data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.

Compensation & Benefits

• Hiring Salary Range: $85,000.00 - $125,000.00
• Compensation is dependent on several factors, such as position, location, market, education, training, and/or experience.

Location

• Remote, hybrid, and in-office environments supported.

Additional Information

• The firm will comply with any applicable city or state workplace mandates in effect in regards to Covid-19.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Equal Employment Opportunity policy applies to employment decisions including hiring, promotion, transfer, demotion, evaluation, compensation, and separation without regard to protected characteristics.