Strategic Advisory & Financial Lead

Our Client, a $3B+ global professional services firm located in Downtown Los Angeles with hybrid work scheduled, is seeking a progressive & dynamic Strategic Advisory and Finance Lead to join their elite Financial Analysis team.

The company offers a generous total compensation package. Bonuses are awarded in recognition of individual and firm performance. Benefits include healthcare, life and disability insurance, flex spending accounts, a 401k plan, etc.,10 paid holidays, and a PTO program that accrues 20+ days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure.

The SAFL will be responsible for providing insight into the economic performance and financial health of clients, matters, and legal teams, while building and maintaining complex analytical models that leverage the firm’s data to provide insightful analysis and responding to specific requests of business partners and leading those colleagues toward a robust financial outcome.

Responsibilities:

• Leveraging project management principles to manage firmwide financial projects and complete other complex financial requests needed by department management
• Applying business, economic, finance, and accounting principles to the firm’s internal financial data to help firm leaders simplify and ultimately solve complex problems; leveraging SAP Business Objects to query data and Excel to effectively and efficiently synthesize that data
• Ensuring emails received through the team’s shared email are handled in a timely professional manner, including prioritizing urgent requests, and ensuring effective handoff with the team in the next time zone
• Developing standard tools for reporting and analyzing data
• Maintaining detailed records documenting procedures and assumptions, methodologies, and sources of information employed during the performance of all analytical tasks

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field; MBA/Master's a plus
• 5+ years’ analytical experience in finance or accounting
• Demonstrate excellent analytical skills
• Display the ability to work independently to research, analyze, and develop financial information
• Possess the organizational skills needed to manage time well, prioritize effectively, and handle multiple deadlines