Finance & Business Maanagement - Legal Finance EMEA - Associate

Reporting to the EMEA Legal Finance manager, the core role will be to assist with providing support to the Global Legal Finance Department in the following capacity:

• Support the EMEA Legal Finance manager with driving and assisting with the implementation of key business and strategic initiatives for Legal
• Ensure and manage robust governance processes and procedures.
• Organize and manage relevant regional forums/meetings, as required
• Proactively and on request provide strategic analyses to facilitate business progression
• Build effective relationships and work closely with the Senior Legal Finance teams, Legal Management team and the Lines of Business
• Actively contribute ideas and engage with the Legal, Finance and the line of business communities in the region and globally

Core Responsibilities:

• Contribute to key Legal projects, including strategic, control, technology, and expense related initiatives
• Assistance with providing guidance on process improvements, including technology enhancements relating to Legal Finance tools
• Support to drive Outside Counsel accountability whilst continuing to partner with Outside Counsel Value Management (OCVM) team to drive down OC expenses on litigation and transactional spend
• Understanding of External Spend financial / pipeline data and review of underlying information on a periodic basis, in collaboration with functional partners
• Become the SME of regional nuances, as well as specific line of business processes, relating to external spend
• Lead and/or assist with projects related to expense and Legal Finance technology initiatives across Legal.
• Manage and complete ad hoc financial analysis and provide answers to management queries, when necessary

Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• Pro-active and problem-solving mind-set with ability to identify, clearly present and implement solutions
• Strong organizational and time management skills; flexibility, ability to prioritize requests and multi-task
• Strong Excel, Word, PowerPoint, BO, SAP skills
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated, and effective under pressure
• Strong analytical and numeric skills, excellent attention to detail
• Strong communication, influencing and relationship building skills
• Ability to work well independently and partner effectively
• Disciplined approach to managing processes and controls with a view to improve