Analyst, Global Pricing Compliance

Our Finance team is responsible for ensuring accurate financial operations and plays a crucial role in managing the Firm’s financial health. Our team handles a wide range of financial activities including financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, taxation, partner compensation, payroll, treasury and cash flow management to support the Firm’s strategic goals. We are responsible for inventory management including billing and collections, and analysis of client, matter and timekeeper profitability.

We oversee statutory accounting and ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards. The Finance team also prepares financial statements, reports and analysis to provide insights into the Firm’s financial performance. We work closely with other functions to monitor expenses, optimize financial processes and implement cost-saving initiatives. Through meticulous financial management and strategic planning, the Finance team ensures the Firm’s financial stability and supports its growth objectives.

Our Global Pricing Compliance Analyst will be part of a team responsible for making sure that matters are opened and maintained in accordance with applicable client fee agreements and the Firm’s pricing guidelines. This includes reviewing engagement letters and fee agreements, validating the financial data in New Business Intake forms and ensuring accurate set-up and ongoing maintenance within the Firm’s Practice Management system.

The role is central to mitigating financial risk, supporting revenue integrity, and underpinning our strategic pricing objectives.

Working closely with various teams, including but not limited to, the Pricing team, Billing and Revenue teams, Legal Project Managers, Business Development and Regional Finance teams, the Global Pricing Compliance Analyst will act as a key point of coordination for client and matter rate agreement queries. The role also maintain the Client Agreement database and supports reporting on client and matter rates to stakeholders across the Firm.

We are keen to meet people who work most comfortably in a fast-paced environment, and who can review, analyse and manage a busy schedule of compliance activity with multiple moving parts. We expect our Global Pricing Compliance Analysts to be comfortable interpreting financial information, identifying issues in processes and collaborating with stakeholders to resolve them.

• Ensuring clients and matters are set up within the Firm’s Finance System in line with all agreed financial terms, subject to internal approvals, policies and best practices.

• Review financial arrangements included in engagement documentation including engagement letters, proposals and outside counsel guidelines to understand agreed client terms.

• Review the financial data contained in New Business Intake forms to ensure the matter rates and financial terms comply with client engagement letters, fee agreements and outside counsel guidelines.

• Establish dates for review of client and matter rates to ensure ongoing compliance and accuracy.

Review client and matter agreed financial terms, including discounts, to confirm they fall within the thresholds set out in the Firm’s Pricing Guidelines.

Ensure that the appropriate approvals have been obtained in line with Firm protocols. When necessary, work with Partners and approvers to ensure approvals are obtained and elevate and raise issues where required approvals are missing or incomplete.

Work with the Data Control team to ensure that rate structures and fee agreements have been properly implemented in line with client agreements.

Maintain the Firm’s Client Rate Agreement database, ensuring that information is accurate, up to date and reflects agreed terms.

Review re-activated matters to ensure that financial set-ups remain accurate and compliant with underlying agreements.

Proactively reach out to Partners to inform them when rate agreements are expiring and rates can be uplifted.

Ensure the terms of Global Fee Agreements are followed by all Partners and matters across the firm.

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