Senior Pricing Analyst

Mayer Brown - UK; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Mayer Brown, a leading international law firm, seeks a Senior Pricing Analyst for its London office. The role involves providing pricing and financial support, developing fee arrangements, and conducting market analysis. Ideal candidates will have a degree in finance and experience in a professional services environment, with strong analytical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in a partnership or professional services environment, preferably a law firm.
• Adept at creating and maintaining financial models.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide pricing and financial support to Partners and Business Development.
• Model financial impacts of proposed pricing arrangements.
• Conduct competitor and market analysis.

Skills

Analytical skills

Financial modeling

Project Management

Communication

Commercial acumen

Education

Degree in finance, accounting or business

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Overview

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial and collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realise their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our London office as a Senior Pricing Analyst: Europe.

Responsible to:Assistant Director: Pricing - Europe

Hours:9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with flexibility in accordance with the needs of the business. Happy to talk flexible working.

Responsibilities

• Provide pricing and financial support to Partners, Business Development and other Firm personnel in relation to client fee arrangements.
• Working directly with Firm Partners and Business Development Teams develop fee arrangement options in response to client RFP's and ad-hoc pricing requests. Prepare analysis to support proposed fee arrangements
• Model the financial impact and viability of proposed pricing arrangements for specific engagements and present matter economics to Partners and management personnel as part of fee approval process;
• Assist in facilitating the approval of fee arrangements through FINCOM or other approving committees/personnel;
• Complete post matter financial analysis and associated pricing and business insight to Partners, Pricing and Business Development teams;
• Complete competitor and market analysis to gain an understanding of the European market for legal services and competitive landscape
• Working with Pricing and Legal Project Management team members develop and maintain departmental technologies, tools and processes.
• Other ad-hoc projects and reporting as requested by management.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Degree in finance, accounting or business

Useful but not essential:

• Legal qualification
• CIMA, ACCA or MBA

Experience, skills and personal attributes:

• Experience of working within a partnership or professional services environment essential, preferably a law firm
• Extensive experience working in fast paced dynamic environment, particularly within a broader team focusing on:
  • professional services pricing;
  • finance analysis
  • legal operations ;
  • legal technologies;
  • practice or engagement management;
• Experience of fee negotiation is preferable
• Adept at creating, developing and maintaining financial models, preferably in a pricing context
• Thorough working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite of products, particularly Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint, Power BI. SQL skills are a distinct advantage
• Project Management skills are essential, able to manage multiple projects at one time and prioritize as necessary
• Knowledge of a multi-currency financial systems commonly used in the legal industry, preferably Aderant Expert
• Strong analytical, evaluative and critical thinking skills, able to analyse data and present meaningful and useable insight to partners and Firm management.
• Strong commercial acumen and high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to create strong successful working relationship with clients, partners and staff. Strong team player with ability to listen to others’ opinions and propose creative workable solutions to problems
• Able to articulate points of view clearly and succinctly, with excellent communication skills, both oral and written. Credible in communication with a wide variety of personnel and personalities including partners, business development personnel, finance & accounting team and Firm management.
• Self-motivated, self-directed and proactive, with good organisational and time management skills and able to anticipate client, partner and team needs.

At Mayer Brown, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment that offers our people the opportunity and support they need to succeed.

Our culture promotes mutual respect, acceptance, cooperation and productivity among people from varying backgrounds and values different perspectives and ideas.

One of our core values at Mayer Brown is to promote diversity and inclusion at all levels within the business which is actively supported by our diversity networks - LGBT+, Fusion (Race & Ethnicity), Multi-faith, Women, Enable (Disability) and Work and Me (Family).

We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that individuals may require throughout the recruitment process and once they have joined the Firm.

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