Analyst, Global Pricing Compliance

The Global Pricing Compliance Analyst will be part of a team responsible for making sure that matters are opened and maintained in accordance with applicable client fee agreements and the Firm's pricing guidelines. This includes reviewing engagement letters and fee agreements, validating the financial data in New Business Intake forms and ensuring accurate set-up and ongoing maintenance within the Firm's Practice Management system. The role is central to mitigating financial risk, supporting revenue integrity, and underpinning our strategic pricing objectives.

Working closely with various teams, including but not limited to, the Pricing team, Billing and Revenue teams, Legal Project Managers, Business Development and Regional Finance teams, the Global Pricing Compliance Analyst will act as a key point of coordination for client and matter rate agreement queries. The role also maintains the Client Agreement database and supports reporting on client and matter rates to stakeholders across the Firm.

We are keen to meet people who work most comfortably in a fast-paced environment, and who can review, analyse and manage a busy schedule of compliance activity with multiple moving parts. We expect our Global Pricing Compliance Analysts to be comfortable interpreting financial information, identifying issues in processes and collaborating with stakeholders to resolve them.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring clients and matters are set up within the Firm’s Finance System in line with all agreed financial terms, subject to internal approvals, policies and best practices.

• Review financial arrangements included in engagement documentation including engagement letters, proposals and outside counsel guidelines to understand agreed client terms.

• Review the financial data contained in New Business Intake forms to ensure the matter rates and financial terms comply with client engagement letters, fee agreements and outside counsel guidelines.

• Establish dates for review of client and matter rates to ensure ongoing compliance and accuracy.

Pricing Guidelines and Approvals

Review client and matter agreed financial terms, including discounts, to confirm they fall within the thresholds set out in the Firm's Pricing Guidelines.

Ensure that the appropriate approvals have been obtained in line with Firm protocols. When necessary, work with Partners and approvers to ensure approvals are obtained and escalate and raise issues where required approvals are missing or incomplete.

Data Integrity and Rate Management

Work with the Data Control team to ensure that rate structures and fee agreements have been properly implemented in line with client agreements.

Maintain the Firm's Client Rate Agreement database, ensuring that information is accurate, up to date and reflects agreed terms.

Review re-activated matters to ensure that financial set-ups remain accurate and compliant with underlying agreements.

Proactively reach out to Partners to inform them when rate agreements are expiring and rates can be uplifted.

Ensure the terms of Global Fee Agreements are followed by all Partners and matters across the firm.

Reporting and Analytics

Produce and distribute standard and ad hoc reports in relation to client and matter rates for use by Pricing, Finance and other stakeholders.

Proactively identify areas of vulnerability in internal processes and compliance systems, using data to highlight risks and opportunities for improvement.

Support leadership by contributing to pricing compliance updates, including summaries of issues, trends, and remediation activity.

Stakeholder Engagement and Support

Communicate with the Pricing team, the Data Control team, regional Finance teams and matter Partners to clarify requirements, resolve issues and ensure alignment on pricing compliance matters.

Act as a point of contact for ad hoc queries from other business services teams and legal professionals on topics within the team's remit. Building strong working relationships across business services and legal teams, supporting a culture of pricing discipline and financial integrity.

Required Skills and Experience

• A university degree is preferable but not essential.

• Law firm or professional services experience preferred.

• Flexible and enthusiastic, with the ability to manage your own workload and priorities to meet deadlines.

• Exceptional numerical skills, including the ability to calculate rates and percentages accurately.

• Ability to multi-task and work well in a high-paced environment.

• Strong communication skills, both written and oral.

• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills, with the ability to work effectively at all levels within the organisation.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience in reviewing client agreements, working capital or revenue management, or legal finance.

• Experience working in a global law firm or other partnership structure.

• Strong understanding of law firm economics and how pricing impacts profitability.

• Experience working with practice management systems or financial systems in a legal or professional services context.

What We Offer

At White & Case, you can make a real difference, support cutting-edge matters that make the headlines and help shape the world we live in. We live by our values – to be pioneering, united and human – and we believe that you will experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and training that will help you achieve your potential.

We believe that consistent high-performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a member of our leading Global Pricing group, and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.

We offer high-quality, internationally oriented work on the most challenging matters and an opportunity to work as part of a truly global organisation.

Location

This role is based in our London office.

Our standard office hours are 09:30–18:00, with a current requirement for 4 days in the office per week.