Senior Pricing Business Analyst

About the Role

Analyze, monitor, and report on financial data to both internal and external stakeholders. Create practice‑specific budget templates, analyze comparable data, and develop standardized task pricing for all legal matters, with a focus on civil and criminal litigation. Develop budgets/estimates in support of client requests and/or alternative fee pricing. Monitor budgets, identify overruns, alert partners, and recommend solutions. Provide recommendations and analyses for various client pricing arrangements, including annual rate renewals.

Provide firm, practice and office focused profitability statistics, modeling, and analysis under the general direction of a PBA Manager or the Director of PBA. Prepare and distribute weekly and monthly financial reports in approved formats, analyze results, and prepare observations for firm management. Provide financial support to the Department Chair and Practice Group Leaders in the litigation department. Develop tools to provide department leadership with value‑add analysis to help improve revenue.

Work closely with other team members to create consistency in analyses, understand firm practices at large, and anticipate cross‑sell opportunities. Work collaboratively with employees from other administrative functions, including Billing, Legal Project Management, Client Development, Practice Management and New Business Intake, to provide comprehensive support to Wilmer Hale attorneys.

• Develop hourly budgets or Alternative Fee Arrangements for legal matters in collaboration with Partners and matter teams to meet client requests; budgets based on matter scope, staffing assumptions, and engagement phases; provide quality assurance in the budget process.
• Provide pricing support to Wilmer Hale attorneys in the form of annual rate renewals, budget estimates, and alternative fee proposals.
• Leverage warehoused financial data to provide financial support to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Incorporate Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCGs); provide notification of deadlines to Partners and update budgets to meet client requirements.
• Monitor actuals against budgeted fees and update budgets in light of actual work performed; submit reports to Partners.
• Participate in firm‑wide matter management program, including reviewing and validating matter management reports.
• Analyze impact of client rate arrangements including financial modeling and impact analysis of alternative rate scenarios on the firm and client.
• Participate in the annual billing rate budgeting process that supports the firm’s revenue objectives; support and contingency recommendations; update the billing system with firm standard rates and variations; prepare annual office and practice group revenue budgets; perform financial modeling and risk/opportunity analysis related to revenue.
• Prepare and deliver statistical support for Attorney Compensation review processes, including Partner Compensation and Capital processes; provide information on revenue generation and management for Partners and attorneys; maintain revenue FTE variations.
• Provide decision‑support to the Chief Financial Officer, Managing Partner and Practice Leadership as assigned, including monthly statistical reporting, problem definition from business and financial perspectives, modeling alternatives, and presenting recommendations.
• Assist in developing financial and operational presentations for Finance Management to Partners, Senior Administrators and Firm Management.
• Look for opportunities to improve processes and activities using business technologies, artificial intelligence, and other resources.
• Participate in special projects and other duties as assigned.
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to professionalism, delivering high‑quality service, and maintaining a positive, solution‑oriented approach. Effectively support internal departments, external clients, and vendors through clear, courteous communication via electronic correspondence, telephone, and in‑person interactions.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively use PC‑based and online technology, database, presentation, and spreadsheet software.
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