Legal Portfolio Strategy Manager

PRA Group (Nasdaq: PRAA); Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

PRA Group, based in Minnesota, seeks a seasoned Strategy Analytics Lead to direct a small team of analysts focused on day-to-day operations and strategic placements within the legal stream. You will translate data into actionable insights, present findings to leadership, and shape process improvements across teams.

The role requires strong SQL, Excel, and PowerPoint skills, plus leadership experience mentoring analysts and deploying SME-driven strategies.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years as an Analyst with strong SQL skills and ability to create SQL queries and joins
• Excel or other statistical packages to analyze financial and legal data
• Able to read and interpret data to provide recommendations to leadership
• Some experience leading a team of analysts is preferred
• Conceptual thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate, collaborate and negotiate with other departments
• Leadership in project management coordination and prioritization
• Bachelor's degree in STEM or quantitative field, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Manages a team of analysts overseeing day-to-day business tasks for legal placements
• Deploys strategies in a business area as SME
• Builds testing scenarios for deployment
• Investigates inventory gaps and optimization opportunities for legal/operations
• Mentors junior analysts in PRA knowledge and analytics skills
• Maintains policy documentation, change logs and approvals for updates
• Enhances monitoring and control mechanisms for compliant processes
• Identifies issues and drives cross-functional process improvements

Skills

Advanced SQL

Problem solving

Leadership

Mentorship

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Accountable for the results of a small team of strategy analysts. Manages daily activities, projects/tasks of the team. Recommend changes to team policies to business unit leaders and key stakeholders. Identifies and resolves day-to-day technical and operational challenges. Primary point of responsibility, accountability, and activity for core operations account placement through the legal stream. Investigates and presents strategy changes, impact analysis, and testing results to peers and leadership. Interpret data to identify trends, conduct root cause analysis of problems, or suggest areas for process improvement. Make recommendations and improve system processes by workflow analysis.

Professional Experience/Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of professional work experience as an Analyst with strong technical skills such as advanced SQL and creating SQL queries and joins.
• Also require Microsoft Excel or other statistical packages to analyze financial and legal operational data.
• Comfortable interacting with Senior leadership and presenting in PowerPoint
• Able to read and interpret reported data to provide recommendations to leadership
• Some experience leading a team of analysts is preferred
• Conceptual thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Find best fit solutions to help tell a compelling narrative of the data that aligns to the intended audience.
• Ability to communicate, collaborate and negotiate with other departments in solving problems.
• Leadership skills in project management coordination and prioritization.
• Ability to solve complex, ambiguous business problems.
• Strong mentorship capabilities for analytical skill development.
• Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or quantitative field, or a demonstrable equivalent combination of formal education, on-the-job training, and/or work experience

Key Responsibilities (other duties may be assigned):

• Manages a team of analysts centered on overseeing and supporting the day-to-day business tasks for the purpose of managing and accessing the segmentation criteria for legal placements
• Responsible for the deployment of strategies in a particular area of the business as a subject matter expert (SME).
• Provides creative solutions for improving processes or concepts and capable of building out testing scenarios for deployment.
• Investigates inventory gaps and areas for better optimization to inform legal, operations, fulfillment, or model/segmentation.
• Mentor junior analysts for the purpose of analyst development in skills, PRA knowledge, and subject matter expertise.
• Maintains current policy and procedure documentation along with change logs and approvals for any updates being made.
• Enhance the monitoring and control mechanisms to legal owned processes to ensure the Company maintains compliance with policies and procedures.
• Identify issues and process improvement opportunities and work with other areas of the business to analyze, report, and resolve discrepancies (including taking ownership of actions/projects where appropriate)

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall direction, development, coordination, and evaluation of employees in accordance with policies and applicable laws.
• Interview, train, and appraise employees, plans, assign, and direct work and addresses and resolves issues.