Senior Data Analyst, LPM, Legal

Senior Data Analyst, LPM, Legal

Location: Northern Ireland

Role:

Our client is looking for a Senior Data Analyst to support the Legal and Transformation team on the delivery of technical work related to strategic data & technology projects.

May fall under: Reporting, Analytics and Product Management.

Supports planning, designing, and implementing systems and processes relating to strategic projects, to support client-facing work by developing solutions that address specific client issues.

User education, training and other presentations and communications. It will also include Legal Project Management as you will proactively work with legal teams to build Legal Project Management capabilities to support the efficient and effective delivery of legal services.

Also you will assist with Tech. Delivery, to scope, plan, manage and deliver work on time and within budget, architectural principles, to work effectively with colleagues across IT and the business to gain commitment, support and resource to deliver technical streams of work, and to support software development teams in the technical delivery of key data and analytics infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

Legal Operations

• Collaborate with the global team in designing and delivering a suite of tools for teams to utilise on opportunities of varying sizes
• To assist the senior team in working with clients and to develop solutions targeting case milestones that may be operationally demanding or difficult to deliver

Legal Project Management

• To support medium to large sized projects throughout the lifecycle and encourage best practice in data analysis, estimating and budgeting, monitoring, reporting and post-matter reviews

Legal Transformation

• To support the identification of legal automation use cases and related workflow solutions to transform legal service delivery
• To support the identification of legal process design opportunities, collaborating with the Legal Transformation team and embedding legal technology solutions in the Practice Groups' operations

Technical responsibilities

• To build modular, client-facing technology solutions that can be leveraged across cases
• To design, build, update and maintain collaboration platforms (SharePoint and HighQ)
• To build and manage automated workflows with tools such as Power Automate
• To design automated dashboards and other data visualisations with tools such as PowerBI
• To support development teams in translating business requirements to technical specifications, and to draft data diagrams and SQL code to aid in the production of API endpoints

Skills / Qualifications

• Good experience in traditional IT processes (change control, agile / scrum methodologies, etc.) and a demonstrable interest in legal operations, data & analytics and how technology can be applied to improve the practice of law
• 3+ years working experience (law firm environment preferred) or a strong technical background or qualification
• Strong foundational skills with the Microsoft 365 Suite (preferably Excel, PowerBI, SharePoint and Power Automate)
• Experience working with data, manipulating datasets and in data analytics
• Experience working with SQL databases and web servers
• Experience using Python libraries for data management, automation and visualisations
• Practical experience in all stages of managed services delivery, from managing change through to service acceptance testing and handover to operational support teams
• Skilled in client service, working collaboratively with external service providers, coming up with creative solutions to issues, and seeing beyond complexity to achieve the right outcomes for the firm
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired

• Appropriate undergraduate/post graduate degree qualification
• Experience working in a pricing, project management or operational role in a professional services environment
• Web design and UI/UX design
• Confident using APIs to access data from systems
• Understanding of Scrum/Kanban and how they are typically used in large organisations to track progress
• Familiarity with the dynamics, culture and challenges of law firms or other professional services businesses
• Extremely numerate, with the proven ability to convert complex/raw data into concise and actionable insight
• Able to build relationships and influence all levels of seniority

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