Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company focused on financially empowering the next generation. The Legal Operations Analyst will coordinate with the finance team on legal spending, manage technology solutions for the Legal Department, and oversee vendor management processes.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate with the internal finance team to monitor, analyze and regularly report on external legal spending, including budgeting, forecasting and variance management (including monitoring and enforcement law firm compliance with the department's billing guidelines)
- Prepare legal spend dashboards to highlight current and historical legal spend by category, and identify key spending drivers, trends and cost savings/avoidance successes
- Manage Legal Department technology solutions and processes, and related activities
- Administrator of Legal’s contract and document management responsibilities
- Act as a liaison and coordinating resource for the Legal Department’s litigation hold and e-discovery tools and protocols, across all potential information/data electronic repositories and physical storage locations
- Supervise various team email inboxes and address messages in a timely manner
- Work with Legal leadership to develop and track metrics to measure and communicate departmental goals and progress. Collect and consolidate monthly/quarterly reporting on key performance indicators and metrics; determine if tracking the right metrics
- Identify and execute critical change management initiatives and high priority strategic projects with a focus on a standardizing and simplifying processes
- Provide ongoing training and support on processes and technologies for all Legal Department resources as needed
- Manage outside counsel billing, budget management and payment cycles, working directly with supervising internal lawyers, outside counsel and finance
- Refine/update standardized law firm billing and performance guidelines, and drive law firm implementation
- Increase focus on inclusion and diversity with external partners to increase the number of diverse attorneys who are working on legal matters
- Assist with the implementation of alternative fee arrangements (AFA) and utilization of alternative legal service providers (ALSP) as appropriate
- Other responsibilities and projects as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 5+ years of similar experience to those above, but in general with at least two of the following areas: budget and financial management, Technology management, Operational effectiveness, Vendor management
- Budget and financial management
- Ability to identify and manage cross-team and cross-project dependencies
- Ability to anticipate and address issues early. Proactive and self-starter
- Strong analytical skills. Detail oriented
- Ability to balance and prioritize multiple projects for various internal customers
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills required
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Medical insurance
- The opportunity to join Minneapolis’s fastest growing startup alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals
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