Legal Pricing & Financial Analytics Analyst

Agnello & Rogers; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Job summary

Arnold & Porter is seeking a highly analytical Financial Analyst to join our Finance team in New York. You will partner with attorneys, practice groups, and leadership to develop pricing strategies, evaluate alternative fee arrangements, and provide data-driven insights that support client value and firm growth.

This role requires strong modeling, reporting, and communication skills to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic professional services environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum two years of experience in legal pricing, FP&A, or a related financial-analysis role.
• Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, advanced formulas, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, and dynamic modeling.
• Experience with business intelligence, report-writing, and data visualization tools preferred.
• Power BI experience, including interactive dashboard development, DAX measures, data modeling, and visualization of financial and operational data.

Responsibilities

• Partner with attorneys to develop pricing strategies and innovative fee arrangements that support client needs and firm profitability.
• Create detailed matter budgets and financial models for hourly and alternative fee arrangements, including fixed fees, capped fees, blended rates, collars, subscriptions, contingency arrangements, and portfolio pricing.
• Conduct sensitivity and scenario analyses to evaluate staffing mix, leverage, realization, margin, and profitability.
• Perform profitability and contribution-margin analyses at the matter, client, practice, and firm levels.
• Support pricing and budgeting components of RFP responses, client fee negotiations, and other business-development opportunities.
• Prepare and communicate monthly financial reports, including attorney productivity, key performance indicators, and client, practice, office, and firmwide analyses.
• Develop ad hoc analyses, reports, and presentations for senior management, attorneys, practice groups, and other internal stakeholders.
• Use business intelligence and data visualization tools to identify trends and translate complex information into actionable recommendations.
• Train attorneys on legal pricing best practices, matter-management techniques, and available business intelligence tools.
• Collaborate with Marketing to develop client budgets, rate structures, and alternative fee arrangements that maximize client value and firm profitability.
• Leverage generative AI tools, where appropriate, to enhance financial analysis, streamline reporting, support pricing scenarios, and improve data presentation.

Skills

Financial modeling

Excel (Advanced)

Power BI

Data visualization

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Collaboration

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Tools

MS Excel

Power BI

Business Intelligence tools

Job description

Arnold & Porter is seeking a highly analytical Financial Analyst to join our Finance team in New York. You will partner with attorneys, practice groups, and leadership to develop pricing strategies, evaluate alternative fee arrangements, and provide data-driven insights that support client value and firm growth.

This role requires strong modeling, reporting, and communication skills to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic professional services environment.