Legal Operations Analyst (Remote)

About Sezzle:

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose long-standing mission is to financially empower the next generation. Only one in three millennials own a credit card, and the vast majority of millennials possess a subprime credit score or no score at all. To address these problems, Sezzle has built a payment platform that increases purchasing power for consumers by offering interest-free installment plans at online stores. This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the numerous eCommerce merchants that currently work with Sezzle.

As the first and only B-Corp in the payments space, Sezzle’s goal is to help everyone pursue financial freedom, and to invest in social good and ethical initiatives that shape a better world.

At Sezzle, we’re committed to putting purpose alongside profitability. We work hard to maintain rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency to build a better world. The employees at Sezzle lean into significant societal and cultural shifts, ensuring internal and external focus on positive impacts that benefit our community.

Key Role Responsibilities: 

Financial Management:

• Coordinate with the internal finance team to monitor, analyze and regularly report on external legal spending, including budgeting, forecasting and variance management (including monitoring and enforcement law firm compliance with the department's billing guidelines)
• Prepare legal spend dashboards to highlight current and historical legal spend by category, and identify key spending drivers, trends and cost savings/avoidance successes

Technology & Administration:

• Manage Legal Department technology solutions and processes, and related activities
• Administrator of Legal’s contract and document management responsibilities
• Act as a liaison and coordinating resource for the Legal Department’s litigation hold and e-discovery tools and protocols, across all potential information/data electronic repositories and physical storage locations
• Supervise various team email inboxes and address messages in a timely manner.

Operational Effectiveness:

• Work with Legal leadership to develop and track metrics to measure and communicate departmental goals and progress. Collect and consolidate monthly/quarterly reporting on key performance indicators and metrics; determine if tracking the right metrics
• Identify and execute critical change management initiatives and high priority strategic projects with a focus on a standardizing and simplifying processes
• Provide ongoing training and support on processes and technologies for all Legal Department resources as needed.

Outside Counsel/Vendor Management:

• Manage outside counsel billing, budget management and payment cycles, working directly with supervising internal lawyers, outside counsel and finance
• Refine/update standardized law firm billing and performance guidelines, and drive law firm implementation
• Increase focus on inclusion and diversity with external partners to increase the number of diverse attorneys who are working on legal matters.
• Assist with the implementation of alternative fee arrangements (AFA) and utilization of alternative legal service providers (ALSP) as appropriate.

Other responsibilities and projects as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• 5+ years of similar experience to those above, but in general with at least two of the following areas:

• budget and financial management
• Technology management
• Operational effectiveness
• Vendor management

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Budget and financial management

• Ability to identify and manage cross-team and cross-project dependencies.
• Ability to anticipate and address issues early. Proactive and self-starter.
• Strong analytical skills. Detail oriented.
• Ability to balance and prioritize multiple projects for various internal customers.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills required.

About You: 

A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle.

A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build.

An excellent communicator.

Ownership. You aren’t afraid to take on new responsibilities and you act like an owner in everything you do.

A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things.

Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.

Perks & Benefits: 

Competitive salary 

Medical insurance

The opportunity to join Minneapolis’s fastest growing startup alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome? 

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

Sezzle provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran or military status, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.