Legal Spend Analyst

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Your Role:  Legal Spend Analyst

As a Legal Spend Analyst in Elanco’s Legal and Compliance (L&C) Department, you will be part of a global legal operations team that facilitates the Department’s mission of providing proactive and strategic counsel enabling growth and compliance.

 In this role, you’ll be responsible for assisting L&C with strategic spend management, not only through routine review and application of existing processes and tools but also by identifying and implementing continuous improvement opportunities and automation technologies.

 You’ll  be part of the Legal Operations & Support team, reporting directly to the Head of Legal Operations & Support.

Your Responsibilities:


* Vendor & Relationship Management: Manage the full lifecycle of L&C vendor relationships, including agreement negotiation, onboarding, daily interactions, and issue resolution, and ensuring compliance with billing guidelines.


* Invoicing & Financial Processing: Administer the daily invoicing process, reconcile invoices, resolve discrepancies, and facilitate timely payments utilizing L&C’s eBilling (e.g., Legal Tracker) and other financial systems (e.g., Ariba, SAP).


*  System Administration & Support: Serve as a primary contact for L&C’s eBilling system, providing user support, training, system optimization, and troubleshooting to optimize system utilization.


* Financial Analysis & Reporting: Extract, analyze, and interpret financial data from various systems to generate comprehensive reports on legal spend, trends, accruals, forecasts, and budgets, providing key insights and requestd reporting to stakeholders.


* Process & Technology Improvement: Identify, research, and recommend opportunities for process and technology improvements within the L&C’s spend management function eBilling operations to enhance efficiency and reduce costs; identify KPIs to track progress and develop metrics and reporting.


* Cross-functional Collaboration & Support: Coordinate effectively with internal Elanco teams (e.g., Internal Audit, Accounts Payable, Finance, IT) and external vendors, and provide...