About the Role
The Global Pricing Compliance Analyst ensures that client matters are opened and maintained in accordance with applicable client fee agreements and the Firm's pricing guidelines. This role is central to mitigating financial risk, supporting revenue integrity, and underpinning strategic pricing objectives.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring clients and matters are set up within the Firm’s Finance System in line with all agreed financial terms, subject to internal approvals, policies and best practices.
- Review financial arrangements included in engagement documentation including engagement letters, proposals and outside counsel guidelines to understand agreed client terms.
- Review the financial data contained in New Business Intake forms to ensure the matter rates and financial terms comply with client engagement letters, fee agreements and outside counsel guidelines.
- Establish dates for review of client and matter rates to ensure ongoing compliance and accuracy.
- Review client and matter agreed financial terms, including discounts, to confirm they fall within the thresholds set out in the Firm's Pricing Guidelines.
- Ensure that the appropriate approvals have been obtained in line with Firm protocols.
- Work with Partners and approvers to ensure approvals are obtained and escalate and raise issues where required approvals are missing or incomplete.
- Work with the Data Control team to ensure that rate structures and fee agreements have been properly implemented in line with client agreements.
- Maintain the Firm's Client Rate Agreement database, ensuring that information is accurate, up to date and reflects agreed terms.
- Review re-activated matters to ensure that financial set-ups remain accurate and compliant with underlying agreements.
- Proactively reach out to Partners to inform them when rate agreements are expiring and rates can be uplifted.
- Ensure the terms of Global Fee Agreements are followed by all Partners and matters across the firm.
- Produce and distribute standard and ad hoc reports in relation to client and matter rates for use by Pricing, Finance and other stakeholders.
- Proactively identify areas of vulnerability in internal processes and compliance systems, using data to highlight risks and opportunities for improvement.
- Support leadership by contributing to pricing compliance updates, including summaries of issues, trends, and remediation activity.
- Communicate with the Pricing team, the Data Control team, regional Finance teams and matter Partners to clarify requirements, resolve issues and ensure alignment on pricing compliance matters.
- Act as a point of contact for ad hoc queries from other business services teams and legal professionals on topics within the team's remit.
- Building strong working relationships across business services and legal teams, supporting a culture of pricing discipline and financial integrity.
Requirements
- A university degree is preferable but not essential.
- Law firm or professional services experience preferred.
- Flexible and enthusiastic, with the ability to manage your own workload and priorities to meet deadlines.
- Exceptional numerical skills, including the ability to calculate rates and percentages accurately.
- Ability to multi-task and work well in a high-paced environment.
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
- Excellent interpersonal and team working skills, with the ability to work effectively at all levels within the organisation.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience in reviewing client agreements, working capital or revenue management, or legal finance.
- Experience working in a global law firm or other partnership structure.
- Strong understanding of law economics and how pricing impacts profitability.
- Experience working with practice management systems or financial systems in a legal or professional services context.
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Client agreement review
- Working capital management
- Revenue management
- Legal finance
- Global law firm operations
- Partnership structure understanding
- Law firm economics
- Pricing impact analysis
- Practice management systems
- Financial systems
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- University degree preferable
Benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Pension plan with matched employer contribution up to 7.5%
- Yearly wellbeing fund
- Income protection
- Holiday purchase
- Life insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Private GP services
- Travel insurance
- Dental coverage
- Cycle to work
About the Company
- White & Case is a global law firm committed to supporting cutting-edge matters and shaping the world. We operate by our values: pioneering, united, and human. We provide support and training to help employees achieve their potential. We believe high performance merits reward and offer a compensation package and benefits designed to support changing needs and priorities. We offer high-quality, internationally oriented work on challenging matters within a global organization.
Equal Opportunity
- White & Case is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.
- If you require assistance and/or adjustment to participate in our application and/or interview process, please email us. We will be happy to work with you.
