FP&A Analyst

Aplaro Ltd; Reston; Hybrid; GBP 52,675 - 75,250; Full time

Job summary

DLA Piper is seeking an FP&A Analyst to support strategic initiatives across the firm, delivering insightful financial reporting, forecasting, and storytelling to drive profitability. The role partners with practice groups to turn data into actionable decisions and aligns with the firm's growth plans.

It emphasizes automation and AI to enhance finance processes and analytics capabilities. Located in Reston with a hybrid schedule, the analyst will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, prepare

Qualifications

• Ability to analyze complex financial and operational data and translate results into actionable insights for leadership.
• Strong communication and financial storytelling skills; comfortable presenting to non-finance stakeholders.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to partner effectively with cross-functional teams.
• High energy, eagerness to learn, and interest in applying AI/automation to modernize FP&A processes.
• Experience in a law firm, financial institution, or professional services organization is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support practice group and firm reporting requirements by providing informative analytics and insights to leadership, with a focus on actionable recommendations and profitability.
• Monitor and analyze practice group revenue activity, ensuring alignment with budgets and forecasts and explaining key variances.
• Partner with expense management and data/analytics teams to perform profitability analysis that supports the firm’s financial goals and initiatives.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial packages for leadership, highlighting key trends, drivers, and variances with clear, actionable insights.
• Identify opportunities to streamline financial processes, improve data quality, and increase reporting efficiency through automation and standardization.
• Contribute to finance automation efforts, including building and improving simple-language AI agents (e.g., chatbots, cash flow models, validation tools) that support FP&A workflows.
• Analyze structured and unstructured data to extract insights, support predictive analysis, and improve forecasting accuracy.
• Perform ad hoc financial analysis and reporting requests, synthesizing findings into clear takeaways and recommended actions.

Skills

Financial analysis

Financial storytelling

Communication

Cross-functional partnering

AI/automation interest

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, Data Science, Computer Science, or similar field

Tools

Python

SQL

Power BI

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Claude

Job description

DLA Piper is, at its core, bold, exceptional, collaborative and supportive. Our people are the backbone, heart and soul of our firm. Wherever you are in your professional journey, DLA Piper is a place you can engage in meaningful work and grow your career. Let’s see what we can achieve. Together.

Summary

The FP&A Analyst, working in collaboration with and in support of the firm’s strategic initiatives, is a technically skilled, curious, and forward-thinking professional who supports financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and insight-driven decision‑making for assigned practice groups and across the firm. This role serves as an analytical liaison between practice group leadership and the FP&A team, connecting business activity to financial results. The FP&A Analyst brings strong analytical skills, profit‑centric business acumen, and excellent written and verbal communication. The role partners with practice groups to deliver clear reporting and financial storytelling that surfaces performance drivers, risks, and opportunities. Through regular engagement, the Analyst translates analysis into actionable insights that inform strategic decisions, improve profitability, and support the firm’s long‑term growth goals. The Analyst will be directly assigned to one or more practice groups and may rotate across groups for broader development. Looking forward, this individual supports the firm’s adoption of AI in finance and professional services and is passionate about using automation and advanced analytics to improve finance processes. The Analyst is eager to grow into a Citizen Data Scientist—using modern tools, analytics, and (as appropriate) machine learning techniques to analyze data and generate insights. This role reports to the FP&A Manager.

Location

This position is located in our Reston office and offers a hybrid work schedule.

Responsibilities

• Support practice group and firm reporting requirements by providing informative analytics and insights to leadership, with a focus on actionable recommendations and profitability.
• Monitor and analyze practice group revenue activity, ensuring alignment with budgets and forecasts and explaining key variances.
• Partner with expense management and data/analytics teams to perform profitability analysis that supports the firm’s financial goals and initiatives.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial packages for leadership, highlighting key trends, drivers, and variances with clear, actionable insights.
• Identify opportunities to streamline financial processes, improve data quality, and increase reporting efficiency through automation and standardization.
• Contribute to finance automation efforts, including building and improving simple-language AI agents (e.g., chatbots, cash flow models, validation tools) that support FP&A workflows.
• Analyze structured and unstructured data to extract insights, support predictive analysis, and improve forecasting accuracy.
• Perform ad hoc financial analysis and reporting requests, synthesizing findings into clear takeaways and recommended actions.

Desired Skills

• Ability to analyze complex financial and operational data and translate results into actionable insights for practice group leadership.
• Strong communication and financial storytelling skills; comfortable presenting to non-finance stakeholders.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to partner effectively with cross-functional teams.
• High energy, eagerness to learn, and interest in applying AI/automation to modernize FP&A processes.
• Experience in a law firm, financial institution, or professional services organization is a plus.
• Familiarity with tools such as Python, SQL, Power BI, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Claude, or similar platforms is a plus.

Minimum Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, Data Science, Computer Science, or similar field.

Minimum Years of Experience

2 years’ experience in finance, accounting, FP&A, or data analytics, preferably with exposure to AI/machine learning initiatives and revenue/expense management. Open to recent graduates with relevant coursework and/or internship experience.

Essential Job Expectations

• Effectively communicate, verbally and in writing, with clients, lawyers, business professionals, and third parties.
• Produce deliverables, answer phone calls, and reply to correspondence in an efficient and responsive manner.
• Provide timely, accurate, and quality work product.
• Successfully meet deadlines, expectations, and perform work duties as required.
• Foster positive work relationships.
• Comply with all firm policies and practices.
• Engage in both physical and sedentary activity, such as (a) working at a computer for extended periods of time, including on-screen reading,