FP&A Analyst: AI-Driven Financial Insights & Storytelling

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 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