Legal Ops Analyst: Data, AI & Spend

ARCO Companies; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ARCO is seeking a Legal Operations Specialist to advance data, processes, and AI-enabled solutions across the legal department and associated operations. You will own reporting, analytics, and legal spend workflows, partnering with IT and finance to improve efficiency and insight generation.

You’ll build dashboards, validate data, and help scale AI tools while collaborating across legal, accounting, technology, HR, and construction operations to drive measurable value from day one.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in legal operations, legal billing/finance operations, data and reporting/BI, or a related operational role — with demonstrated ownership of at least one recurring function (e.g., reporting, billing, or QA).
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Reporting and data-validation experience, ideally with SQL and a BI tool such as Power BI.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Teams, Excel, and SharePoint or OneDrive.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document work and explain it to people with varying levels of technical or legal knowledge.
• Strong problem-solving ability and sound judgment about when to ask questions or elevate, including exercising discretion with confidential and privileged information.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new systems, processes, and business concepts quickly, with experience working with data, reports, business processes, technology, or operational improvement.
• An active listener who is flexible, organized, methodical, and cross-functional, with ability to work through ambiguity with the curiosity to make connections across people, processes, systems, and data.

Responsibilities

• Reporting & Analytics: Responsible for the legal department’s recurring and ad hoc reporting and dashboards — delivering reliable metrics on legal spend, matters, cycle times, and operational performance to legal leadership.
• Build and maintain reports and dashboards using SQL Server and Power BI.
• Own data quality and validation for Legal Operations reporting: run data-quality checks, document and resolve discrepancies, and maintain knowledge of the source systems behind the numbers.
• Turn matter and spend data into insights and recommendations that inform legal-leadership decisions and surface efficiency and cost-saving opportunities.

Skills

SQL

Power BI

Data validation

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

NetDocuments

CounselLink

DocuSign

Power BI

Job description

ARCO is seeking a Legal Operations Specialist to advance data, processes, and AI-enabled solutions across the legal department and associated operations. You will own reporting, analytics, and legal spend workflows, partnering with IT and finance to improve efficiency and insight generation.

You’ll build dashboards, validate data, and help scale AI tools while collaborating across legal, accounting, technology, HR, and construction operations to drive measurable value from day one.