# Legal Project Manager

**Company**: Norton Rose Fulbright
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking an experienced Legal Project Manager to join our growing Banking LPM capability.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience at a leading law firm and be interested in building strong relationships across our Banking team.

This role offers the opportunity to work on complex, high-value banking and finance matters, supporting our lawyers in delivering efficient and effective legal services to our clients.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead and manage banking and finance legal projects, including due diligence, loan portfolio reviews, transfers/novations, and repapering

- Develop project plans, process maps/workflows, timelines, and resource allocation strategies to meet delivery requirements

- Monitor progress against key milestones and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery, providing on-going updates to ensure that legal mandates meet Firm standards and client expectations

- Collaborate closely with lawyers, clients, and counterparties to drive project execution

- Act as the primary point of contact for project-related queries and updates

- Facilitate effective communication between legal teams, clients, and third-parties

- Implement and manage client and matter based internal and external reporting

- Implement best practices for legal project execution, including risk management, reporting, and quality control

- Identify areas for process improvement and proactively propose solutions

- Proactively manage scope and design/deploy scope management plans

- Track and monitor project budgets, ensuring financial performance aligns with forecasts and client expectations

- Develop specific client matter project and portfolio documentation and reports, including reviewing and consolidating financial reporting and project metrics

- Support pricing and fee structuring to maintain profitability while delivering value to clients

- Generate regular financial reports, including cost analysis, budget variances, and revenue tracking

- Identify opportunities for process efficiencies and cost savings across projects

- Utilize legal technology tools, including contract management and workflow automation platforms, to streamline processes

- Support data analytics, tracking, and reporting to enhance project transparency and efficiency

- Liaise with clients, lawyers, pricing and business development professionals

- Assist on other special projects as needed

**Skills and Experience Required**

- Educated to a degree level

- Expertise working in a similar capacity in a leading law firm

- Project management, lean, change management or other certification or comparable experience is preferable

- Demonstrable experience managing banking and finance legal projects, including due diligence, loan portfolio reviews, transfers/novations, and repapering projects

- Strong financial acumen with experience in budget tracking, cost management, and financial reporting

- Excellent organisational, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks effectively in a fast-paced environment

- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to liaise effectively with clients, lawyers, and business professionals

- Experience working with technology solutions to support legal project execution

- Experience with MS Office tools including Excel

- Some knowledge of PowerBI, Visio, and SharePoint

- Experience of enterprise reporting systems

- Able to learn new applications quickly

- Management of juniors and pastoral skills

- Ability to work independently and as a key contributor

- Comfortable working with and leading teams of partners, associates and other legal personnel

**Personal Presentation**

- Excellent interpersonal skills and able to build relationships with and influence senior stakeholders

- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills with strong attention to detail

- Ability to explain complex financial information to non-finance personnel

- Positive, committed and prepared to use initiative and learn

- Ability to take responsibility and to work under pressure

- Ability to demonstrate interest and concern to meet the needs of internal and external clients

## Skills

### Required
- legal project management
- banking and finance
- budget tracking
- cost management
- financial reporting
- MS Office
- Excel
- PowerBI
- Visio
- SharePoint

### Nice to have
- project management certification
- lean
- change management
- Litera Transact
- eBrevia
- Harvey
- O&D

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