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Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm’s core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals.
Summary for the Strategic Pricing Analyst
The Strategic Pricing Analyst supports the firm’s pricing and profitability efforts. These efforts will include supporting the work of the Strategic Pricing Managers in gathering, cleaning-up and organizing data for routine and customized analyses, analyzing various fee and pricing options and modeling them for profitability, understanding and summarizing financial information on past client work, assisting in various projects that advance the firm’s pricing systems and resources, assisting in the financial monitoring or fee arrangements and assisting in Pricing Operations efforts to adequately organize client financial agreement documentation and reporting. Maintains professionalism and strict confidentiality in all client and firm matters.
The Strategic Pricing Analyst can be located in either the Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York or Washington D.C. office. Katten offers a hybrid work model, allowing the flexibility to work both on-site and remotely on a regular basis (KattenFlex).
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include, but may not be limited to, the following. Other duties may be requested and/or assigned. Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of the position. Essential functions are primary job duties that an individual must be able to perform successfully with or without a reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Serve as first-level support for incoming requests and reporting projects from adjacent departments and lawyers.
• Pull custom data and draft reports to support routine and ad-hoc financial modeling needs.
• Assist with performing analysis on firm, department, practice group and client matter financial positions.
• Compare financial and operational performance against internal and external benchmarks.
• Perform predictive analysis and modeling to assist in determining the impact of proposed scenarios.
• Support in the production of customized client-facing analytics such as quarterly business reports.
• Assist in the drafting of pricing proposal narrative, including responses to pricing, process, efficiency and monitoring capabilities questions for RFP responses.
• Contribute to the development and production of performance monitoring reports to support legal project management efforts.
• Assist with templates and tools to help standardize pricing procedures and metrics.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Bachelor’s degree required; minimum of three years of professional financial experience, with professional services sector experience a plus.
• Superior analytical skills and strong financial capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to work across functional teams.
• Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite, including Excel, Access and PowerPoint.
• Proficiency of data analysis using advanced Excel analytical functions.
• SQL & Microsoft SharePoint experience a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills. Ability to communicate with courtesy, diplomacy and discretion, efficiently follow written and verbal instructions, provide information and maintain effective relationships with a diverse group of attorneys, firm management, clients, staff and outside contacts.
• Excellent organizational, planning and project management skills including record keeping, data collection and system information. Ability to compile and analyze data and furnish concise, detailed information in report format, written correspondence, e- mail or verbally.
• Ability to understand and support firm goals, services, culture and strategy in order to present self and the firm in a positive, professional manner. Understand and stays up to date on current legal market trends, news, and innovations.
• Exhibit high degree of initiative in managing multiple priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, high-stressed, detail-oriented work environment. Ability to work with frequent interruptions and adapt to changes in workflow.
• Dependable team player with high energy, creativity and vision who works collaboratively and cooperatively with others in a team-oriented environment. Ability to act independently within scope of the position’s responsibilities as a decision-maker and contributor on all levels.
• Excellent analytical and technical skills requiring an aptitude for detail, precision and logic with knowledge of all aspects of the business development process in order to perform the essential duties of the position. Proactive with excellent troubleshooting, problem resolution, and follow-through skills.
• Work occasionally requires more than 37.5 hours (35 hours in New York) per week to perform the essential duties of the position.
We offer an outstanding benefit package which includes: medical/dental/vision, 401k with employer contribution, parental leave, transportation fringe benefit program, back-up care option, generous paid time off policy, and long-term and short-term disability policies.
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer/AA-M/F/SO/Disability/Veteran.
