Legal Improvement Analyst - Bristol

Job Introduction

DACBeachcroft has an exciting opportunity for a Legal Improvement Analyst to join our Business Improvement and Change team on a full-time, permanent, hybrid basis in our Bristol office.

Reporting into the Legal Business Change Manager, the Legal Improvement Analyst is a new role that will be at the forefront of driving initiatives that improve the delivery of legal services. The role involves close collaboration with lawyers, to help drive effective matter management practices as well as identifying ways to improve the delivery of our legal services.

We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role as set out in this advert.  If this applies to you contact disabilityconfident@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the team will be in touch. 

Role Responsibility

• Responsible for the ongoing support and deployment of cosine matter management alongside good matter management processes.
• Working with the Legal Change Manager and the Practice Management Team to identify opportunities for improvement
• Working with the Clusters to Identify and supporting process, policy and procedure improvements across legal service delivery
• Interested in using process and digital  to enhance the delivery of legal services
• Using business analysis and business change skills to drive the adoption of new working practices

The Ideal Candidate

• Legal knowledge with ability to understand legal process and communicate effectively with lawyers and clients
• Understanding of law firm processes and lawyer-client relationships
• Must be a team player, with a demonstrable commitment to the success of the department as a business 
• Knowledge of the matter management lifecycle including billing
• A logical approach and desire to understand business process and the supporting applications
• Numerate and attention to detail.  Able to analyse and draw conclusions from financial data.
• Solutions-oriented – looks for ways through problems and able to deal with ambiguity
• Excellent communication skills, able to build influential relationships at all levels within the firm
• Self-starter with the desire to learn and develop

About the Company

We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.
We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe.  In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe. 

Working with us
Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.
Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.
We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft LLP resourcing team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the resourcing team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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