KPMG US · 7 hours ago
Senior Associate, Legal Business Services
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
2+ years expKPMG is one of the world's top tax firms, seeking a Senior Associate in their US Legal Business Services practice. The role involves executing LBS engagements for legal clients, managing legal technology implementations, and advising on best practices for process improvements.
Financial Services
No H1B
Responsibilities
Help execute on LBS engagements for legal department and law firm clients across LBS's three service lines: Legal Managed Services, Legal Operations Consulting, and Legal Technology Innovation; manage services engagements for legal departments; strategic assessments for legal teams; legal technology optimization, selections and implementations, including CLM and Gen AI applications for legal teams; monitor organizational/target operating model design initiatives; legal/business process improvements; governance models; legal metrics and data; strategic modeling and impact analysis; legal resourcing strategies, and the like
Provide input into engagement decisions regarding work plan and timelines, project management, resource allocation, and career development of staff members
Advise best practice recommendations to leadership as to how to integrate process improvement and change management activities
Develop and analyze metrics, performance measurements, requirements, reports / recommendations related to management, organizational structure, and policies / procedures
Design, develop, manage, and document processes and project plans in a complex, dynamic environment, revising needs to meet changing client requirements
Support the selection, implementation and execution of legal technologies including Enterprise Legal Management, Contract Lifecycle Management, eBilling, Matter Management
Qualification
Required
Minimum two years of recent prior experience working in legal business consulting, legal technology innovation, and/or legal managed services; experience could include, among other things, work in a consulting/advisory firm on behalf of legal teams; time spent in the legal technology field (e.g., at a legal technology provider or implementation partner); experience in a legal department, law firm, management, operations and/or work in the field of legal-related data and analytics
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university
Understanding of business transformation, functional processes, financial management, technology, resourcing, performance management, and change management relating to corporate legal departments, law firms, and other legal-sector related businesses
Experience identifying potential business and operations risks in areas such as, legal department performance, internal control / risk assessment, transformation and change management processes; prior experience preparing and conducting business analysis and studies, needs assessments, requirement analysis / definition, and cost benefit analysis
Ability to work in and support a team environment
Ability to travel up to 50%
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)
Benefits
Medical and dental plans
Vision coverage
Disability and life insurance
401(k) plans
A robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support your mental health
Personal Time Off per fiscal year
Calendar of holidays to be observed during the year
Two breaks each year where employees will not be required to use Personal Time Off
Company
KPMG US
KPMG is one of the world’s leading professional services firms and the fastest growing Big Four accounting firm in the United States.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Lynne Doughtie
Former Chairman and CEO
Paul Knopp
Chair and CEO
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