Legal Spend Analyst

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

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At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

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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 general administrative support to L&C colleagues as assigned.

What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications):

• Education:  Bachelor’s Degree
• Experience:  3-5 years in a law firm or corporate legal environment as a financial analyst, paralegal, or administrative assistant
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills to address global internal and external contacts on complex technical information both clearly and concisely
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, prioritize workload, demonstrate follow- through, and display high-level organizational skills.
• Self-confident, self-directed, and ability to work with various levels of staff and management.
• What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications):
• Legal spend management application experience, specifically with Legal Tracker (Thomson Reuters), Ariba, and SAP highly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of the legal industry, business processes and technology landscape.
• Accounts Payable/Receivable experience, liaising with Finance departments or working in a law firm managing eBilling tool(s) and/or working in the Finance department is a plus.
• Project management experience inclusive of using data to tell a story.
• Travel:  Less than 10%, if any
• Location:  Warsaw – Hybrid Work Environment
• Career at one of the leading global animal healthcare companies.
• Office located in the center of Warsaw (Rondo Daszynskiego).
• Sports cards (Multisport), private medical care, life insurance.
• Open and inclusive environment which is supportive and welcoming of all diversity strands.

We Offer:

• Extra Days Off.

• Flexible Working Hours.

• Animal-Friendly Office.

• Theatre Tickets Discounts.

• Language Learning Platform.

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status