Financial Analyst – Pricing

London, England, United Kingdom

12/19/2024

About Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins is a global law firm consistently ranked among the top firms in the world. The success of our firm is largely determined by our commitment to hire and develop the very best and brightest, creating a team that provides our clients with the highest quality of work and service. We are driven by our core values: respect, innovation, and collaboration.

About The Role

The Financial Analyst – Pricing is an integral part of Latham’s Financial Analysis team. This role will be responsible for working on an industry-leading Pricing Team in a fast-paced and dynamic role aimed to drive success towards the firm’s goals and objectives by applying financial, analytical, and business support, while performing profitability scenario analysis to support pricing decisions for firm management. This role will be located in either our London, or Manchester office. Please note that this role may be eligible for a flexible working schedule that allows for a hybrid and in-office presence.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Other key responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with the Business Development team on new engagement opportunities by creating competitive and innovative fee proposals that meet strategic and financial goals
• Assisting relationship attorneys with client rate negotiations by offering pricing advisory service and analytical support
• Researching and identifying existing/historical firm matters to create standardised pricing templates that assist attorneys in developing budgets for new matters
• Conducting internal analysis and external industry research around billable rates, fee structures, and pricing trends that drive key business decision-making
• Preparing presentation materials for pricing strategy discussions with firm leadership
  
  
  

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Possess well-developed and professional interpersonal skills; including the ability to interact effectively with people at all organisational levels of the firm
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a team environment with a customer-service focus
• Display the ability to work independently to research, analyse, and develop financial information
  
  
  

And have:

• A bachelor's degree or an equivalent in finance, accounting, business administration, economics, or a related field
• Analytical experience in finance or accounting
• Experience responding to ad-hoc requests, performing analyses, and producing reports, preferably
  
  
  

Benefits & Additional Information

Successful candidates will not only be provided with an outstanding career opportunity and welcoming environment, but will also be provided with a generous total compensation package with bonuses awarded in recognition of both individual and firm performance. Eligible employees can participate in Latham’s comprehensive benefit programme which includes:

• Health insurance as well as group income protection and life assurance
• A pension plan
• Wellness programs
• Employee discounts
• And more!
  
  
  

Additionally, we have a range of diversity programming including Global Affinity Groups. These groups provide a firmwide platform to share experiences and advice as well as an opportunity to participate in a supportive network with common interests to help make life at the firm even better.

Latham & Watkins is committed to diversity, equal opportunity, sustainability, and pro bono legal services. We draw from a remarkable wealth of talent to create one of the world's leading law firms, and advance these commitments through the work of our Global Citizenship department. Our lawyers, paralegals, and professional staff worldwide comprise a rich mixture of different races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, sexual orientations, cultures, and primary languages. Our diversity makes us who we are.

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