Sr Financial Analyst, Strategic Finance

DLA Piper is a bold, exceptional, collaborative, and supportive firm where our people are the backbone, heart, and soul. This role offers the opportunity to engage in meaningful work and grow your career within a dynamic professional environment.

About the role

The Senior Financial Analyst, Strategic Finance, will collaborate with and support the firm’s strategic initiatives as a key resource on the Strategic Finance FP&A team. This role focuses on developing and enhancing profitability analysis, including revenue and margin budgets and forecasts. The individual will translate complex financial, operational, and staffing data into clear insights to help leadership understand performance drivers, evaluate trade-offs, and make informed decisions. This position will also mentor and serve as a technical resource to financial analysts across the team.

Responsibilities

• Lead revenue and margin profitability analysis at the total firm level and across verticals, practice groups, offices, clients, matters, and timekeepers, focusing on identifying margin improvement opportunities.
• Build, maintain, and enhance scalable financial models that integrate key revenue and expense drivers, support dynamic scenario planning, and enable detailed margin analysis.
• Lead the monthly revenue forecast process, including driver-based forecast modeling, risks and opportunities analysis, variance analysis, and run-rate trend assessment.
• Lead modeling for the annual budget process, partnering with FP&A, practice management directors, and other stakeholders to create budget templates, gather inputs, validate assumptions, and develop integrated models.
• Develop capacity models to help leadership assess staffing levels, timekeeper productivity, lateral growth, practice demand, and resource allocation decisions.
• Prepare executive-ready materials and recurring reporting that synthesize complex financial trends into concise narratives and key takeaways for senior leaders.
• Contribute to finance transformation efforts, including designing and adopting AI-enabled and automation-based solutions to improve speed, consistency, and insight generation.
• Identify and implement modeling enhancements, process improvements, automation opportunities, and documentation standards to improve forecast accuracy and transparency.
• Support lateral investment analyses, market analytics, and other strategic finance workstreams through in-depth analysis as needed.
• Perform ad hoc financial modeling, business case development, project support, and direct executive support as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Business Administration, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, financial analysis, or business analytics, ideally with experience in revenue, margin, profitability, capacity, or driver-based forecasting.
• Advanced financial modeling skills, including the ability to build, improve, audit, and explain complex models with clear assumptions and outputs.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize complex data into concise business insights and recommendations.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including forecasting, dashboarding, data visualization, and planning tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create executive-ready materials and tailor messaging for diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, meet deadlines, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative, growth-oriented mindset with the ability to mentor analysts and build trusted relationships across finance and business teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.
• CFA certification.
• Experience in professional services, legal, consulting, or a similarly complex business environment.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, or serving as a technical resource to other financial analysts.
• Experience with investment analysis, profitability modeling, private equity, venture capital, or business case development.
• Experience with ROI, profitability analysis, pricing economics, or partner/timekeeper productivity.
• Experience developing capacity, staffing, leverage, or demand models to support resource planning and operational decision-making.
• Ability to create and update Power BI dashboards.
• Familiarity with tools such as SQL, Python, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Claude, or similar analytics and automation platforms.

Location & Schedule

This position is available in our New York, Short Hills, or Reston office and offers a hybrid work schedule. Up to 10% travel may be required, depending on location and business needs, including travel to the Reston, VA, Short Hills, NJ, and New York City offices for business meetings.

Pay

The firm’s expected hiring range for this position is $98,990 - $137,126 per year, depending on the candidate’s geographic market location, experience, skills, and qualifications.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a 401(k) plan.