Senior Analyst, Internal Audit Position Available In New York, New York

100% Remote (Must work EST)
Legal Operations Analyst We are seeking an experienced legal operations professional to join Legal Ops team for a temporary 6-12 month parental leave coverage. Together with the Legal Affairs organization, we deliver efficient, scalable, and innovative support to clients growing business. We manage contract workflows, outside counsel relationships, strategic legal planning, and legal operations projects. In this role, you will take ownership of key legal operations workstreams, with a primary focus on legal billing and vendor management. You will ensure operational excellence in managing our legal e-billing processes and support the Legal Affairs team in financial oversight and vendor relationships. What You’ll Do Manage and optimize clients e-billing system (Brightflag), including overseeing billing processes, tracking spend across platforms, managing accruals and analysis, managing regular controls, and ensuring compliance with billing guidelines.
Provide daily support for the legal e-billing system, resolving invoice issues, responding to inquiries, and training internal teams on vendor management processes.
Partner with the finance team and law firms to manage invoicing, accruals, and reporting on budgets, costs, and resource utilization for financial oversight.
Oversee vendor and outside counsel management, including supporting fee arrangement negotiations, managing law firm engagement letters, and developing a preferred law firm panel program.
Advise the Legal Affairs team on budget strategies, spend optimization, and alternative fee arrangements with external legal service providers.
Drive continuous improvement in billing and vendor management processes.
Lead and support various legal operations projects, ensuring their successful completion by coordinating with legal and business stakeholders. Who You Are You have 3+ years of experience in a legal operations role focused on e-billing and outside counsel spend management, ideally in an international organization or large law firm.
You have hands-on experience with e-billing systems (e.g., Brightflag) and a strong understanding of billing and accounting procedures.
You have experience supporting rate and fee negotiations, creating reports and relevant metrics/statistics (including alternative fee arrangements), and managing relationships with law firms.
You effectively bridge the gap between technical, legal, and business teams, aligning systems and processes with business needs.
You have excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and effectively.
You are inquisitive and challenge the effectiveness of current processes and procedures, constantly seeking ways to improve. With over 26 years of industry experience, SSi People has built its reputation and expertise on putting people first. Everything we do works toward delivering an exceptional experience for our consultants, our clients, and our internal team. Through a genuine commitment to people in everything we do. We have developed refined processes and a stellar internal team to deliver talent quickly. More importantly, we focus on building long-term relationships, not transactions. Putting people first is just what we do well. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from SSi People and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our