Legal Operations Analyst II

Duties And Responsibilities

• Tracks legal spend, including oversight of e-billing system, invoice review for compliance with outside counsel guidelines, and identification of cost-saving opportunities.
• Develops, maintains, and reports on legal spend metrics, including budgets, forecasts, accruals, and variance analyses to support financial transparency and decision-making.
• Collaborates with Legal, Finance, and external partners to enhance spend governance, improve vendor performance, and drive process efficiencies related to budgeting and outside counsel management.
• Adopts and supports new tools and technology to optimize legal efficiency and ensure compliance.
• Develops metrics/dashboards and designed business intelligence systems to monitor performance against goals and targets.
• Assists with strategic cross-departmental and cross-functional projects to achieve key legal initiatives and departmental goals.
• Assists with various workstreams for department technology initiatives including contract management, book of knowledge management, corporate governance management and others.
• Supports programs that optimize sharing and collaboration across the department.
• Supports document preparation and management for the legal department, including distilling technical data and information into dynamic presentations.
• Updates and maintains all legal file management.
• Develops and coordinates the rollout of periodic employee trainings on relevant legal topics/systems.
• Conducts research and analytical studies on a variety of programs and issues; formulates reports.
• Manages projects from their assignment through implementation.
• Collaborates with team members and communicates relevant information to leadership.
• Upholds the security and confidentiality of documents and data within area of responsibility.

Job Qualifications

• Consistently demonstrates the Mindsets, ALDI Acts Competencies and Professional Skills (M.A.P.) as outlined for the role.
• Gives attention to detail and follows instruction.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Effective time management; maximizes productivity.
• Prepares written materials to meet purpose and audience.
• Develops and maintains positive relationships with internal and external parties.
• Ability to stay organized and multi-task in a professional and efficient manner.
• Ability to interpret and apply company policies and procedures.
• Problem-solving skills.

Education And Experience

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• A minimum of 3 years of progressive experience in Legal required.
• Extensive prior experience with Microsoft 365, project management, and matter management tools (Onit) preferred.
• Prior in-house Law experience preferred.
• Or, a combination of education and experience providing equivalent knowledge.