Senior Financial Analyst

Job Summary & Objectives

The Senior Financial Analyst plays a key role in supporting financial management by preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual analyses. Their primary responsibilities involve being strong business partners to the practices and assisting Finance management with the preparation of profitability analysis, client analysis, headcount reporting, and other ad hoc requests.

In this position, it is essential to gain a solid understanding of the 3E billing system, our financial dashboards, and our analytic tools such as cube and Power BI. This person will need to work collaboratively with all levels of Firm personnel, including Partners, Practice Directors, and various administrative departments, including different groups within accounting.

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Practice(s) to help them reach their financial and strategic goals by gaining a thorough understanding of the Practice and offering data-driven recommendations for action.
• Assess quarterly profitability and conduct break-even analysis by utilizing key metrics such as hours, leverage, and expenses. This includes providing comparisons on a monthly, quarterly, and year-over-year basis, identifying trends, delivering insights, and making recommendations to management.
• Contribute to the firm’s business development by delivering insights into our clients' financial performance, analyzing trends, and formulating their strategy.
• Lead coverage of key clients, provide analysis to inform decisions and drive delivery of strategic client objectives.
• Build relationships with Partners and business leaders to ensure appropriate support of strategic initiatives.
• Assist with various Firmwide initiatives, including revenue projections, various promotion review processes and the annual business planning process.
• Create monthly and ad-hoc profitability analyses.
• Support the analysis of current Client/Matter metrics as well as Office/Section metrics.
• Engage in various special projects related to profitability, client analysis, reporting enhancements, and process simplification for the department.
• Adhere to Firm policy and procedures, escalating issues when appropriate.

Education

Required

• Bachelor’s degree required.

Preferred

• Degree in Finance or Accounting preferred

Skills and Experience

Required

• Minimum of five years of financial analysis experience in legal or related field
• Demonstrate flexibility and initiative with respect to handling multiple projects and shifting priorities
• Ability to work well independently as well as effectively within a Global team
• Ability to effectively present information verbally and in writing
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong organizational skills
• Proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to learn new software and operating systems

Preferred

• Experience with 3E or other legal billing system preferred

Salary Information

Simpson Thacher will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

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