Analyst, Legal Affairs

Key Responsibilities

• Own the review, coding, approval routing, payment tracking, and timely processing of external counsel and vendor invoices.
• Track legal budgets, accruals, forecasts, and budget-to-actual performance, and prepare clear spend reporting for Legal and Finance leadership.
• Partner with Finance and Accounts Payable to resolve invoice issues, improve payment workflows, maintain accurate matter and vendor data, and support month-end and quarter-end reporting.
• Manage settlement tracking and processing, including payment status, required documentation, and related reporting.
• Maintain physical and electronic legal records and oversee document retention processes.
• Prepare presentations, communications, dashboards, and status reports that translate legal operations and spend data into actionable insights.
• Aid in documentation and knowledge repositories in connection with contract lifecycle management.
• Care for coordinating and maintaining departmental knowledge repositories.
• Aid in maintaining intellectual property and brand protection records.
• Aid in corporate entity management and maintenance of governance records.
• Manage compliance calendars, documentation and knowledge management libraries, and internal tracking systems.
• Support compliance processes relating to data protection, third-party due diligence, and sanctions or export compliance.
• Aid in dispute and litigation management, including matter intake, document organization, legal holds.
• Monitor bankruptcy proceedings and support the preparation and filing of bankruptcy-related documents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 2 years of legal operations, finance, accounting, e-billing, or paralegal experience.
• Experience in a law firm or corporate legal department.
• Proficiency with legal billing, e-billing, invoice review, matter management, eDiscovery, CLM, and financial reporting systems.
• Experience supporting a broad legal function across multiple practice areas within a corporate legal department.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and meet deadlines effectively.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience managing relationships with outside counsel, vendors, Finance, and Accounts Payable teams.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office Suite, systems, and legal research and litigation software, such as Westlaw/Lexis, PACER, and Relativity.
• High attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage projects, prioritize work, multi-task effectively, analyze legal spend data, and respond to shifting priorities with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrated expertise building legal spend reports, dashboards, and finance tracking tools that support timely payment, accurate forecasting, and leadership decision-making.
• Hands-on experience supporting litigation matters, conducting document review and managing e-discovery processes.
• Prior experience in an in-house legal department supporting a global, publicly-listed organization.
• Proven ability to exercise sound judgment, handle sensitive information, and operate independently to meet deadlines, while partnering professionally with attorneys and business leaders.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid Paternity and Maternity leave
• Commuter Benefits
• Disability insurance
• Tuition assistance