Analyst - Legal Spend

Overview

A legal services organization is seeking a Legal Spend Analyst to implement legal spend services for clients. This role involves reviewing law firm bills to ensure compliance with clients' litigation handling guidelines, supporting clients with analytics, strategy, and reporting related to legal spend. As the process matures, the analyst will help develop best practices, train new team members, and support clients with advanced spend management analytics.

Responsibilities

• Review law firm bills to ensure compliance with clients' litigation handling guidelines.
• Promote best practice bill submission and review procedures to identify opportunities for improving billing guidelines.
• Train and manage team members.
• Identify additional opportunities to deliver legal solutions to clients.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in spend analysis, bill review audit, business analysis, or finance.
• Prior experience as an attorney, paralegal, legal spend analyst, legal bill auditor, legal bill reviewer, or billing coordinator for law firms is a plus.
• Strong negotiation skills; personable and collaborative.
• Strong analytical experience with a willingness to learn new techniques.
• Experience using major eBilling software vendors such as Legal Tracker, Tymetrix, Passport, or similar.
• Proficiency with Excel.
• Comfortable learning new software products as needed.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Skills for Success

• Ability to set and maintain high standards of professional service.
• Detail-oriented and analytical, with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Extremely organized and capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Eager to learn, grow, and take on new responsibilities.
• Self-directed and able to work independently to meet and exceed goals.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $60,000 to $65,000 per year, based on skills, experience, level, and location.
• This is a remote-based position.
• Full-time employees are offered a comprehensive benefits package and paid time off.

Location

• Remote