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Arnold & Porter is an international law firm with offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. The firm advises clients on complex regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters across a broad range of industries, including many of the worlds leading companies and organizations.

We are seeking a highly analytical and collaborative Financial Analyst to join our Finance team. In this role, you will partner with attorneys, practice groups, firm leadership, Marketing, and Finance colleagues to develop pricing strategies, evaluate alternative fee arrangements, assess profitability, and provide data-driven insights that support client value and firm growth.

This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional with strong modeling, reporting, and communication skills to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic professional services environment.

Key Responsibilities

Partner with attorneys to develop pricing strategies and innovative

fee arrangements that support client needs and firm profitability.

Create detailed matter budgets and financial models for hourly and

alternative fee arrangements, including fixed fees, capped fees, blended rates, collars, subscriptions, contingency arrangements, and portfolio pricing.

Conduct sensitivity and scenario analyses to evaluate staffing mix,

leverage, realization, margin, and profitability.

Perform profitability and contribution-margin analyses at the

matter, client, practice, and firm levels.

Support pricing and budgeting components of RFP responses, client

fee negotiations, and other business-development opportunities.

Prepare and communicate monthly financial reports, including

attorney productivity, key performance indicators, and client, practice, office, and firmwide analyses.

Develop ad hoc analyses, reports, and presentations for senior

management, attorneys, practice groups, and other internal stakeholders.

Use business intelligence and data visualization tools to identify

trends and translate complex information into actionable recommendations.

Train attorneys on legal pricing best practices, matter-management

techniques, and available business intelligence tools.

Collaborate with Marketing to develop client budgets, rate

structures, and alternative fee arrangements that maximize client value and firm profitability.

Leverage generative AI tools, where appropriate, to enhance

financial analysis, streamline reporting, support pricing scenarios, and improve data presentation.

Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

Minimum of two years of experience in legal pricing, financial

planning and analysis, or a related financial-analysis role.

Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, advanced

formulas, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, and dynamic modeling.

Experience with business intelligence, report-writing, and data

visualization tools preferred.

Power BI experience, including interactive dashboard development,

DAX measures, data modeling, and visualization of financial and operational data, preferred.

Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly and

effectively to attorneys, senior leaders, and other non-financial stakeholders.

Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple

priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Exceptional judgment, professionalism, discretion, and ability to

maintain confidentiality.

A collaborative, client-service-focused approach and strong written

and verbal communication skills.

Flexibility to work additional hours as needed.

Please submit a resume and cover letter for consideration.\ \ The anticipated base salary for this position is \$90,000 to \$110,000. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and if applicable, the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.\ \ For benefits information, please click herehttps://www.arnoldporter.com/en/careers/professional-staff/benefits.\ \ The firm may provide a discretionary bonus annually.

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