Analyst, Transactions LPM

1 month ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Herbert Smith Freehills Full time
JOB DESCRIPTION

About Herbert Smith Freehills

As one of the world’s leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.

We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.


The Opportunity

The Analyst, Transactions LPM will develop and use their technical expertise, commercial acumen and understanding of project management to support the LPM team.

The Analyst will be required to deliver excellent legal service to our clients, assisting with project management tasks and supporting the Legal Project Managers.

Key Responsibilities

Supporting the Legal Project Managers within the relevant practice group(s), including:

Legal project management responsibilities

Supporting the Transactions Practices in the delivery of structured legal project management on large, complex or multi-jurisdictional matters. This will involve supporting the Legal Project Managers with day-to-day project management tasks. Support the design, development, and implementation of matter budgets, together with the proactive monitoring of budgets against actual performance and lead on presenting findings to key stakeholders. Assist with the scoping, planning, and reporting for projects, including developing the project plan and project timeline, providing regular status updates internally and to the client, and tracking of progress against scope, timeline, and cost parameters. Communicate with the Associates, Senior Associates and Partners within the Practice Group and with clients on a regular basis - excellent drafting skills will therefore be essential. Capturing relevant legal project management case studies as examples of best practice and preparing slide decks and tombstone data for including in pitches, debriefs and training activities. Co-ordinating regular legal project management calls and meetings; distributing instructions to local counsel; and responding to legal team queries on matters of transaction/project process. supporting the Legal Project Managers in the management of external service providers and local counsel teams; managing conflicts clearances; preparing draft instructions; supporting matter kick off; process design and other administrative activities. drafting pitch content for the Legal Project Managers for submission on client and panel pitches covering legal project management frameworks and principles, technology and process improvement.
 

Financial management and other reporting for supported matters
 

Collaborating with data and technology experts within Digital Legal Delivery as required:

supporting the Legal Project Managers with periodic reporting (status; financial; value; impact) and assisting with the gathering and clarification of inputs by engaging with the legal delivery teams

Technology and other activities
 

Collaborating with members of the Digital team as required:

Working on document automation or AI projects and providing interface between the transaction or matter team and other business services teams and functions Engaging with collaboration software and tools to set up and brand virtual deal rooms, data sites and the 'HSF Client Portal' Running periodic permission audit reports for multi-user collaboration sites to manage risk Supporting the collation and development of LPM collateral, tools and templates and manage the resource repositories for the Digital Legal Delivery teams
 

People responsibilities

Formally or informally mentors more junior members of the LPM team

Qualifications, skills & experience

Essential
 

An organised and practical mindset with the ability to see the big picture Excellent personal time management principles Determination, resilience and persistence Excellent verbal and written communication skills Attention to detail Empathy and situational awareness 1-3 years working experience in a professional services environment (law firm preferred) Strong technical skills (experience with Excel, PowerPoint and Word essential; experience with SharePoint and/or HighQ an advantage)

Desirable
 

Experience of using a Financial Practice Management System (e.g. Elite or Aderant Expert) an advantage Experience of using PowerBI (or PowerAutomate tools) for analysis and reporting. Relevant undergraduate/post graduate degree qualification Understanding of law firm economics

Closing date for applications is Friday 23rd August at 12:00pm.

Team

Digital Legal Delivery

Working Pattern

Full time

Location

Belfast

Contract type

Fixed Term Contract

Diversity & Inclusion

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.

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