FIS
Analyst Lead, Outside Counsel
US FL JAX 347
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4 days ago
Stakeholder ManagementFinancial AnalysisAccountingForecastingBudgetingPerformance ManagementLeadershipCommunicationPublic SpeakingFinancial ReportingVariance Analysis
About the role
- Serve as a key point of contact for outside counsel panel firms, coordinating matter openings, billing guidelines, rate management, performance expectations, and relationship management.
- Analyze legal spend, matter activity, law firm performance, and panel utilization to identify trends, risks, savings opportunities, and process enhancements.
- A strong finance, accounting, business, or analytics background is essential.
Responsibilities
- As an Outside Counsel Analyst Lead at FIS, you will play a key role in supporting and managing FIS's end-to-end outside counsel program.
- This highly visible role partners directly with senior executives, Legal leadership, Finance, and outside law firms to help optimize legal spend, strengthen panel management, and deliver data-driven insights for a thriving Fortune 500 company in a dynamic financial technology industry.
- Support and manage FIS's end-to-end outside counsel program, including law firm panel governance, engagement processes, performance tracking, and operational reporting.
- Partner directly with senior executives, Legal leadership, Finance, and business stakeholders to provide actionable insights on outside counsel utilization, matter status, budgets, and legal spend trends.
- Administer and optimize Brightflag as the primary e-billing and matter management platform, including matter data, invoice workflows, reporting, user support, and process improvements.
- Lead invoice review, billing guideline compliance, accrual processes, budget tracking, forecasting, and financial reporting for legal spend across the outside counsel program.
- Prepare executive-level reporting, dashboards, presentations, and recommendations that support data-driven decisions regarding legal operations and outside counsel management.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance outside counsel policies, billing guidelines, playbooks, workflows, and standard operating procedures, ensuring alignment with Legal and Finance requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across legal operations, including process automation, data quality, vendor performance management, and adoption of legal technology best practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive experience in legal operations, outside counsel management, e-billing, legal spend management, finance, or related corporate legal department operations.
- Advanced financial acumen, including experience with budgeting, forecasting, accruals, invoice review, variance analysis, and executive-level legal spend reporting.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex legal spend data, identify trends, and translate findings into clear business recommendations.
- High degree of judgment, professionalism, and ownership, with the ability to manage confidential information, competing priorities, and complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Brightflag experience is ideal, while a strong finance background is required, including budgeting, forecasting, invoice review, accruals, and financial reporting related to legal spend.
- A multifaceted and challenging legal operations career with a high degree of responsibility
Nice to have
- However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation.
- All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
- Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model
- a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies.
Compensation
- A competitive salary and a range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing
Benefits
- A competitive salary and a range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing
Company info
- Are you interested in being a part of a collaborative, energetic, and business-oriented legal team?
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