Partner Relations Analyst

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Responsibilties

• Liaise with various individuals firmwide in preparation for lateral partners to join the Firm; prepare lateral partner onboarding materials and compensation memo.
• Assist in monitoring compliance with funding initial capital requirements. Provide monthly reports on status of open capital funding arrangements.
• Create senior counsel and partner specific documents from a document compiler software, (HotDocs).
• Process monthly senior counsel payroll to ensure timely and confidential payments to senior counsel throughout the Firm.
• Prepare and distribute monthly senior counsel payroll reconciliations and monthly senior counsel reports; including senior counsel fact sheets for the Executive Director.
• Maintain database and tracking schedules for departing partners and senior counsel, including agreement execution dates and payment deadlines.
• Prepare and distribute various weekly and monthly statistical reports.
• Reconcile and analyze general ledger and payroll transactions for partners and senior counsel.
• Maintain data and prepare reports from the Firm's financial systems.
• Maintain schedule for processing special payments to new lateral partners.
• Prepare capital account analysis for separating partners including calculating estimates for tax and retirement changes; generate reports from the Firm's general ledger system.
• Process confidential payments to departing and transitioning partners throughout the Firm's global locations.
• Maintain data in the Partner Dashboard, Partner Life Cycle and the Partner Notes modules within the Partner Accounting system.
• Cultivate effective communication with colleagues across departments.
• Develop understanding of all roles in the department and provide support as needed, including using various proprietary and over the counter software.
• Provide high quality and consistent customer service.
• Special projects, as required.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 2+ years of accounting, financial analysis or business experience

Nice To Haves

• Strong experience with reconciliations
• Demonstrated technical and analytical skills within background
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• Professional services or law firm experience