Sr Strategic Financial Analyst, Market Analytics

About the role

Join a growing, high-impact Strategic Finance team where Market Analytics, AI, FP&A, and Finance Transformation come together to deliver insights for executive decision-making. This is an exceptional opportunity for a finance professional who wants to do more than produce reports.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert on global and domestic law firm performance drivers, macroeconomic trends, and industry dynamics, translating external developments into clear financial implications and actionable business insights that support strategic planning, forecasting, profitability analysis, and long-range decision-making.
• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of peer survey and benchmarking data submissions, including stakeholder coordination, deadline management, data acquisition, validation, analysis, and executive-ready reporting.
• Partner with finance, strategy and practice group stakeholders to compile data for timely submissions and then develop analyses and reporting that improve visibility into business performance, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Incorporate market-based lagging and leading indicators into results, forecast, and planning stories with the broader FP&A team.
• Support executive leadership with forward-looking market intelligence, scenario analysis, and benchmarking insights that inform growth strategy and resource allocation.
• Build and maintain scalable reporting processes, documentation, and a single source of truth library for survey and benchmark information.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to streamline workflows, automate reporting, strengthen data governance, and enhance analytical tools.
• Contribute to finance transformation efforts, including the design and adoption of AI-enabled and automation-based solutions that improve speed, consistency, and insight generation.
• Deliver ad hoc financial analysis, business cases, and executive materials that synthesize findings into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience working with external market surveys, benchmark datasets, or complex performance data to support strategic or financial decision-making.
• Background in a professional services, legal, consulting, or similarly complex business environment.
• Familiarity with tools such as Power BI, SQL, Python, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Claude, or similar analytics and automation platforms is a plus.
• Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Business Administration, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Preferred Education: Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Business Administration, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Certificates: CFA is a plus.
• Minimum Years Of Experience: 5 years’ experience in Financial analysis, market analysis, benchmarking, or a related analytical role.

Skills

• Experience working with external market surveys, benchmark datasets, or complex performance data to support strategic or financial decision-making.
• Background in a professional services, legal, consulting, or similarly complex business environment.
• Familiarity with tools such as Power BI, SQL, Python, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Claude, or similar analytics and automation platforms is a plus.

Benefits

Our employees are expected to embrace and uphold our firm values as a part of our DLA Piper culture. We are committed to excellence in how we represent our clients and develop our people.

Pay

The compensation offered for employment will also be dependent on other factors including the candidate’s experience, skills, educational and professional background, and overall qualifications. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k).

Schedule

The individual selected for this position may have the opportunity for a hybrid work arrangement comprised of remote and in-office work, the requirement for which will be determined in coordination with the hiring manager or supervisor and may be modified in the firm’s discretion in the future.