Senior Associate, Legal Business Services

About the role

KPMG is seeking a Senior Associate in their US Legal Business Services (LBS) practice. LBS team members work closely with other KPMG service teams, including KPMG Law US and foreign member firm legal practices.

Responsibilities

• Help execute on LBS engagements for legal department and law firm clients across LBS's three service lines: Legal Managed Services, Legal Operations Consulting, and Legal Technology Innovation;
• Manage services engagements for legal departments;
• Strategic assessments for legal teams;
• Legal technology optimization, selections and implementations, including CLM and Gen AI applications for legal teams;
• Monitor organizational/target operating model design initiatives;
• Legal/business process improvements;
• Governance models;
• Legal metrics and data;
• Strategic modeling and impact analysis;
• Legal resourcing strategies, and the like

Requirements

• Minimum two years of recent prior experience working in legal business consulting, legal technology innovation, and/or legal managed services;
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university;
• Understanding of business transformation, functional processes, financial management, technology, resourcing, performance management, and change management relating to corporate legal departments, law firms, and other legal-sector related businesses;
• Experience identifying potential business and operations risks in areas such as, legal department performance, internal control / risk assessment, transformation and change management processes;
• Prior experience preparing and conducting business analysis and studies, needs assessments, requirement analysis / definition, and cost benefit analysis;
• Ability to work in and support a team environment;
• Ability to travel up to 50%

Qualifications

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future;
• KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)