Legal & Business Operations Data Analyst

The Legal & Business Operations Data Analyst supports the firm’s leadership and administrative departments by collecting, organizing, and analyzing data across multiple systems to drive strategic and operational initiatives.

• Serve as the firm’s primary owner of data analytics, including reporting standards, dashboard architecture, and KPI definitions across legal and administrative departments.
• Partner directly with firm leadership and department heads to translate business questions into analytical frameworks, metrics, and dashboards.
• Proactively identify insights and performance indicators leadership may not explicitly request, and recommend new analyses to support strategic decisions.
• Pull, organize, and analyze data from the firm’s finances, timekeeping, and billing systems to identify trends, support decision‑making, and improve operational performance.
• Provide strategic reporting and insight on realization, effective rates, client profitability, practice group performance, and attorney productivity to support leadership decision‑making.
• Develop executive‑level dashboards highlighting key operational drivers, including utilization, leverage, margin, and working capital performance.
• Identify trends and risks in billing realization, collections, WIP, and aged receivables, and recommend data‑driven improvements.
• Deliver profitability analysis by client, matter, practice group, and timekeeper to inform pricing, staffing, and growth strategies.
• Translate operational data into actionable insights to improve revenue capture, efficiency, and overall firm performance.
• Run regular weekly and monthly reports to support business goals across operations, client service, and client relations.
• Provide firm leadership with insights and visual analyses derived from structured and unstructured data sources.

• Design and maintain automated data pipelines using Power
  
  BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Python, SQL, Power Shell, APIs, and scripting tools.
• Experience with SharePoint architecture and web technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript preferred).
• Develop internal tools, web‑based or custom web components to extend visualizations and analytics.
• Collaborate with IT or vendors on system integrations, upgrades, and data migrations, serving as the analytics subject‑matter expert.

• Maintain and improve data hygiene across multiple databases, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and completeness.
• Perform data cleanup and maintenance projects to enhance reporting reliability and system efficiency.
• Gather, validate, and integrate data from multiple systems and locations into consolidated reports and dashboards.
• Elicit requirements from non‑technical stakeholders, clarify ambiguous requests, and shape analytical solutions.
• Present insights to executive, C‑suite and administrative management, including narrative‑driven dashboards and written summaries.

• Build and manage SharePoint lists with advanced functionality, connecting data from multiple systems for leadership access and workflow automation.
• Develop forms that automatically funnel data into spreadsheets or dashboards for real‑time tracking and executive review.
• Use AIPs, Power Shell scripts, and automation tools to connect systems, push and pull data, and streamline processes.
• Assist in the transition and quality assurance of data between the firm’s management systems and new software platforms.

• Design, maintain, and enhance dashboards and visual reports in Power
  
  BI to monitor KPIs and business trends.
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for non‑technical audiences.
• Support firm initiatives in financial analysis, client relationship management, and business development through data‑driven insights.

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Business Administration, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or operations analysis.
• Demonstrated experience working independently with minimal oversight in a fast‑paced professional environment.
• Comfortable operating as a…