Senior Legal Ops Business Analyst - London, United Kingdom - CMS UK

CMS UK

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Legal Operations & Project Management team works with both the lawyers and core business services functions to help the business manage legal matters (projects) more effectively (from pricing and scoping through to evaluation).

The role is also focusedon identifying and delivering necessary changes to working practices and utilising technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

The team are increasingly utilising data to understand potential differences and inefficiencies in our ways of working to develop tangible metric-based solutions to support strategic projects for the firm and clients.

About CMS
CMS is a Future Facing firm.

With 75 offices in 43 countries and 4,800+ lawyers worldwide, we combine deep sector understanding with a global overview, giving us the ability not only to see what's coming, but to shape it.

CMS is well equipped to help our clients face the future with confidence.

We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of delivering legal services.

Our bold approach to a changing future ensuresthat we nurture our employees and recruit top talent.

About the Role

One of the exciting opportunities of this role is the breadth of exposure you will gain from working with a diverse team.

Being responsible for implementing project management, process improvement and change management disciplines across the different practicegroups, the team aims to use data in meaningful ways to support the consultative model we deploy.

Typical responsibilities will include:

Project &

Operations Data Management:
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Interact with business stakeholders and Legal Ops Leads to understand business issues and problems for continuous improvement
Project management experience: ability to understand how to scope and deliver against a specific brief
Implement effective governance, and processes to support projects and data outputs
Gather data from primary and secondary sources in a structured and cohesive way
Produce actionable business insights from detailed data analysis and modelling
Interpret trends form different data sets to support the development of solutions for key projects
Strategic analysis to support financial and progress reporting for teams and projects
Capture and document As-Is and To-Be processes to support workflow analysis and utilise data to support required changes.
Communicate effectively with different stakeholders
Support to generate LPM tools and resources for specific work types
Support on process improvement/operational efficiency projects
Experience with service/ product modelling, process, and system changes
Support to implement and embed changes to ways of working and processes
Team and Client_
Promote and encourage engagement with the LOPM team and our proposition
Providing consultancy support and recommendations on possible delivery/implementation solutions for internal and external clients
Support on client projects as required
Proactively contribute to team initiatives that build our profile, client engagements and support our mandate
Advise best practice and provide technical training and support to team members

About You

Strong ability to build credible relationships at all levels of seniority
Highly analytical and solution orientated
Strong ability to translate objectives into tangible outputs to meet specific needs
Ability to manage different stakeholder types confidently and diplomatically
Ability to confidently sell value, benefits, and results to improve buyin/engagement
Extensive project management experience and a proven understanding for behavioural considerations involved
Strong facilitation skills and a confident presenter
Ability to confidently advise, consult and influence in all situations
Comfortable with 'unknowns' and assertive when necessary
Able to prioritise quickly, often in busy periods, in a calm manner
Invested team player and confident to collaborate
Strong ability to multitask and maintain excellent attention to detail
Flexible in traveling across the UK and to Europe periodically
Education/Qualification _
Degree (or equivalent)
Office Skills _
Advanced knowledge and experience of data manipulation and visualisation tools including Excel and PowerB
Advanced knowledge of process mapping including tools such as Visio
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills
Commercial Skills_
Strong commercial acumen
Financial awareness
Market and client insights in the LPM and Ops space is a plus

Equal Opportunities
At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do.

We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximisetheir potential and thrive.

For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please view the Diversity & Inclusion pages on our website.