Gibson Dunn
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This role reports to the Senior Manager, Project Performance.
Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm, advising clients on significant transactions and disputes. Our exceptional teams craft and deploy creative legal strategies that are meticulously tailored to every matter, however complex or high-stakes. The firm’s work is distinguished by a unique combination of precision and vision.
Based in any of our U.S. offices, the Project Performance Analyst will join the Client Value team and support the Firm’s global project performance management initiatives. They will work with attorneys and other internal stakeholders to support budget monitoring, reporting, and fee arrangement tracking across the Firm’s legal matters.
The Client Value team drives firmwide growth strategy through standardized pricing and budgeting processes, real-time budget oversight with repricing, and disciplined preservation of revenue across client fee and commercial negotiations.
This role reports to the Senior Manager, Project Performance. The Project Performance Management (PPM) team measures, monitors, and reports on the financial performance of all budgeted matters, clients and portfolios globally at Gibson Dunn.
Closely maintain and track the Firm’s alternative fee arrangement matters, highlighting any issues that need partner attention and working closely with the billing department to ensure proper treatment of such matters.
Setup large-scale budget monitoring and proactively address budget variances.
Generate reporting and analysis to help identify at-risk matters
Support large client portfolio analysis and tracking for some of the Firm’s biggest clients.
Support the implementation, use and development of PPM best practices, tools, techniques, and responsibilities across all practice areas.
Support firmwide practice areas with portfolio analysis and reporting
Support custom reporting and fee arrangement renewals
Manage multiple projects concurrently, juggling priorities, deadlines and essential project management duties for each respective project.
Support the implementation, use, and development of PPM best practices, tools, and techniques across all practice areas.
Excellent project management and organization skills that reflect the ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks.
Must have the ability to effectively communicate with all levels of personnel.
Highly professional with a strong customer service orientation, commitment to meeting deadlines, and ability to multitask in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
Self-motivated and detail-oriented, and comfortable working with large data exports.
Interest in law firm finance, pricing, or legal operations.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
0 to 2 years of experience. A prior analyst role in-house or in a related professional services industry is a plus but not required.
Prior law firm experience is a plus but not required.
Strong Excel skills (lookups, pivots, etc.) and experience researching, collecting, manipulating, and analyzing data.
Experience with SQL, Azure, Power BI, and Power Pivot.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
Experience with law firm billing systems (Aderant) is a plus.
Gibson Dunn will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of local law.
The annual compensation range for this position is $70,000 - $85,000. The salary offered within this range will depend upon qualifications and other operational considerations.
Benefits offered for this position include health care; retirement benefits; paid days off, including sick time, and vacation time; parental leave; basic life insurance; Flexible Spending Accounts; as well as discretionary, performance-based bonuses.
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For technical difficulties with our online application, please contact us at staffrecruiting@gibsondunn.com. Our recruiting support team will respond as soon as possible.
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Gibson Dunn is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities. We strive to ensure an inclusive and accessible hiring experience. The Firm will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable participation in the application and recruitment process, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, participate in an interview, or otherwise take part in the recruitment process, please contact us at recruiting-accommodations@gibsondunn.com. Please note, this is a dedicated email inbox established exclusively to assist applicants with accommodation request related to the recruitment process. Inquiries about the status of an application or other non-accommodation matter will not receive a response.
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Notice to Recruitment Agencies: Gibson Dunn does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies, headhunters, or vendors. Resumes sent to any Gibson Dunn employee or attorney, or submitted by an agency through the direct candidate application portal will not establish agency ownership of the candidate and Gibson Dunn will not be expected to honor an agency’s terms or pay any related fees. When a role is open for agency submissions, Gibson Dunn will notify our current agency partners and make the position available through our Agency Portal in Greenhouse. Only agencies that have been given portal access are authorized to submit candidates for consideration. Agencies without a current agreement that wish to be considered for future opportunities may contact staffrecruiting@gibsondunn.com. Please do not send resumes to this address.
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