Legal & Business Operations Data Analyst

About this role

The Legal & Business Operations Data Analyst supports the firm’s leadership and administrative departments by collecting, organizing, and analyzing data across multiple systems to drive strategic and operational initiatives.

Duties and Responsibilities

*Data Analysis & Reporting*

• Serve as the firm’s primary owner of data analytics, including reporting standards, dashboard architecture, and KPI definitions across legal and administrative departments.
• Partner directly with firm leadership and department heads to translate business questions into analytical frameworks, metrics, and dashboards.
• Proactively identify insights and performance indicators leadership may not explicitly request, and recommend new analyses to support strategic decisions.
• Pull, organize, and analyze data from the firm’s finances, timekeeping, and billing systems to identify trends, support decision-making, and improve operational performance.
• Provide strategic reporting and insight on realization, effective rates, client profitability, practice group performance, and attorney productivity to support leadership decision-making
• Develop executive-level dashboards highlighting key operational drivers, including utilization, leverage, margin, and working capital performance
• Identify trends and risks in billing realization, collections, WIP, and aged receivables, and recommend data-driven improvements
• Deliver profitability analysis by client, matter, practice group, and timekeeper to inform pricing, staffing, and growth strategies
• Translate operational data into actionable insights to improve revenue capture, efficiency, and overall firm performance
• Run regular weekly and monthly reports to support business goals across operations, client service, and client relations.
• Provide firm leadership with insights and visual analyses derived from structured and unstructured data sources.

*Technical*

• Design and maintain automated data pipelines using PowerBi, Power Apps...