Job description
Overview:
We require a reporting analyst to work with stakeholders from around the firm to identity reporting needs, work with those stakeholders to design reports and dashboards/visualisations to meet their requirements, work with IT to ensure that systems are able to produce these reports and visualisations and finally build and maintain those reports and dashboards/visualisations.
The main responsibilities are:
Penningtons Manches Cooper is a leading UK and international law firm which provides high quality legal advice tailored to both businesses and individuals. We address the specific objectives of each client through our flair and technical expertise and offer a personal service founded on a strong team ethic.
Today, we have UK offices in the City of London, Basingstoke, Birmingham, Cambridge, Guildford, Oxford and Reading while our growing overseas network stretches from Asia to South America through our presence in Singapore, Piraeus, Paris, and Madrid. We have 140+ partners and over 850 people in total.
We have established a strong reputation in a variety of sectors, particularly technology, private wealth, shipping and real estate. Our lawyers are also recognised for their expertise in life sciences, education, retail, sports and entertainment and international trade.
Among our clients we count multi-national corporations, public companies, professional partnerships, banks and financial institutions as well as private individuals, owner managed businesses and start-ups. We are conscious that our culture and close working relationships are vital assets and we are determined to maintain these as we increase in size.
Our broad international focus is supported by well-established links with law firms throughout the world. Penningtons Manches Cooper is a member of Multilaw and the European Law Group, networks with representatives in over 100 countries, and many of our lawyers play leading roles in various international bodies.
We believe that our values (we care, stronger as one, curious and grounded, constructively challenging and proactively evolving) are core to our success.
Responsibilities:
PMC are implementing a strategic transformation of business and IT systems in the coming years, to streamline the client and fee earner experience, whilst getting greater value from the products that are used. Some of the foundational elements are a new practice management system (Aderant), a new time recording system, and a new client and matter inception system.
We require a reporting analyst to work with stakeholders from around the firm to identity reporting needs, work with those stakeholders to design reports and dashboards/visualisations to meet their requirements, work with IT to ensure that systems are able to produce these reports and visualisations and finally build and maintain those reports and dashboards/visualisations.
The main responsibilities are:
- Work with stakeholders to determine their reporting requirements.
- Design reports and dashboards/visualisations to meet those requirements.
- Work with IT to build the infrastructure to deliver those reports and dashboards/visualisations.
- Build reports using tools such as Excel, Cognos and PowerBI.
- Continually improve those reports, dashboard/visualisations.
- Document reports, dashboards/visualisations for Support.
- Work with stakeholders to define data strategy
- Work with stakeholders to improve data quality and data integrity.
- Undertake other tasks as required.
The firm operates a hybrid agile working policy allowing employees to work from home (or another UK location) for at least 50% of their time. Individuals can also apply for other flexible working options either at the time of recruitment or during the course of their employment.
Essential & Desirable Criteria:
Desirable Criteria:
- Experience of Microsoft SQL, data warehouses and data lakes, OLAP cubes, Cognos, Excel and Power BI.
- Requirements gathering and business analysis experience.
- Attention to detail.
- The ability to work collaboratively as part of team
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate at all levels.
- Experience within a legal environment