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