Financial Analyst

Overview

Our client is hiring a Financial Analyst to support corporate shared services / overhead functions with strong budgeting, cost tracking, and spend governance. This role is for someone who genuinely enjoys the details (the “blocking and tackling” of corporate overhead cost management) paired with the confidence to partner with leadership and keep processes tight.

• Own and support the creation and ongoing management of shared services budgets, including tracking decisions that impact next fiscal year planning.
• Build and maintain costing processes that enable rebilling of qualifying expenses to practices and/or client matters when applicable.
• Produce recurring spend and budget reporting (actuals, forecast, variance to budget, allocations, and cost breakdowns).
• Review, approve, and allocate invoices, ensuring alignment to contracted spend and internal policy.
• Partner with global/local finance stakeholders to standardize allocation methods and reporting categories.
• Analyze spend trends to identify optimization opportunities and provide clear, actionable insight.
• Develop and maintain financial controls, approval matrices, and governance for corporate overhead spend.
• Support project costing, projections, and ROI analysis as needed.
• Ensure cost management policies remain current and aligned with accounting/procurement standards.
• Collaborate with Procurement to strengthen Procure-to-Pay controls across corporate overheads.
• Support internal and external audit requests related to spend and controls.
• Take on ad hoc analysis and requests from senior leadership as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or similar (preferred).
• Advanced Excel proficiency (this is critical): complex formulas/functions, heavy budgeting models, reconciliations, and detailed variance analysis.
• Demonstrated experience managing and analyzing corporate overhead / shared services spend (IT spend exposure is a plus).
• Experience partnering directly with leaders who run overhead functions (e.g., IT, HR, Facilities, Operations, Finance shared services)—not sales leadership.
• Strong ownership mindset: organized, disciplined, proactive, and comfortable working under deadlines.

• Law firm environment exposure or familiarity with revenue cycles / matter structures (helpful, not required).
• Experience with Thomson Reuters 3E and/or Chrome River.
• Power BI/dashboard tools are a plus, but this role is Excel-first and detail-driven.

To keep the search tight: we’re not targeting backgrounds rooted in legal practice, wealth management/investments, banking, sales/revenue modeling, or manufacturing, unless you can clearly show you were responsible for detailed overhead cost-base analysis and governance (not just high-level reporting).

• Detail-obsessed in a good way: you like reconciling, validating, and tightening models/processes.
• You can translate data into clear decisions for leadership.
• You’re service-oriented, collaborative, and comfortable influencing without authority.