Overview

Job Title: Pricing Analyst
Department: Finance
Office Location: London
Reports To: Pricing Manager UK
Working Hours: 35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm; additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office; please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Role Overview

The Pricing Analyst serves as a resource to Hogan Lovells lawyers, business services employees, and clients to retrieve, compile, and analyse data used for innovative fee arrangements and value-added services aimed at increasing cost-effectiveness and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Support senior management in preparation of RFP responses and related analyses.
• Work closely with colleagues in Business Development, Finance, and the partnership to develop solutions in response to client RFPs and Pricing requests.
• Support senior management in preparation of excel models and charts associated with custom pricing studies and formal presentations.
• Take ownership of Client RFP and Pricing projects, including related decision making and coordinating with colleagues in other functional departments.
• Prepare and maintain rate schedules and related excel files.
• Assemble data from multiple sources to develop and produce actionable reports.
• Support operational leads by analysing business requirements and implementing solutions.
• Participate in data maintenance and improvement initiatives.
• Responsible for ad hoc analysis request for pricing team, internal clients and external clients.
• Retrieve and analyse data using custom datasets and Analysis Services cube solutions.
• Creatively solve problems while appropriately challenging assumptions and consistently providing a high-quality work product.
• Participate in continual development and publication of thought leadership and service offerings.

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.

All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Person Specification

Essential

• Minimum of two+ (2+) years related experience preferred, preferably in a professional services or corporate environment.

Desired

• Knowledge of law firm Financial Management System, such as 3E.
• Experience with dashboard and data visualization tools: SSRS, Crystal, Tableau, Power BI Suite.
• Excel VBA, data modelling, and statistical modelling, regression, root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of Legal Industry KPIs and competitive landscape.
• Experience in Procurement or RFP response.

General Attributes

• Strong attention to detail and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with lawyers, professional level business services employees and peers.
• Strong organizational and management skills and an ability to prioritize and complete simultaneous projects with minimal supervision.
• Experience working independently, as well as within cross-functional teams in a collaborative and professional environment.
• Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• A team player, but able to act autonomously with minimal guidance.
• Strong influencing and persuasion skills both in writing and orally.
• Pragmatic, robust, diplomatic and resourceful, with the ability to adapt quickly to different situations and personalities.
• Able to think broadly and demonstrate a high level of initiative.
• Highly motivated and enthusiastic self-starter with a can-do attitude.

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex, gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.

All vacancies are open to direct applicants. Recruitment agencies; please be advised that we have a preferred supplier list in place for all roles.

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Marketing and Sales

Industries

Law Practice and Legal Services