Senior Analyst, Strategy

Our Strategy team plays a pivotal role in shaping the Firm’s long-term vision and ensuring sustainable growth and competitive advantage. The team conducts comprehensive market and financial analyses, evaluates the competitive landscape and formulates strategies, overseeing their execution from inception to completion. All decision-making is grounded in a robust fact base, ensuring informed and effective strategies. Collaborating closely with senior leadership, the Strategy team sets priorities, allocates resources efficiently and drives key initiatives. They continuously monitor industry trends, client needs and regulatory changes, proactively adapting the Firm’s strategies. By fostering innovation and a culture of continuous improvement, the Strategy team ensures that the Firm remains agile, forward-thinking and well positioned for future success.

Duties and Accountabilities

The roles and responsibilities of this job include:

Working closely with the broader Strategy team, internal stakeholders, and external consultants, you will lead key workstreams within complex strategy engagements. You are expected to independently drive the research and analysis agenda, take accountability for the quality and integrity of deliverables in PowerPoint, Excel, and Visualization Tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau), and proactively manage work plans and deadlines. This includes anticipating risks and taking the necessary steps to manage and mitigate them.

Specifics include:

• Independently sourcing, evaluating, and recommending solutions, frameworks, and methodologies to address specific project needs.

• Owning the research agenda end-to-end by defining and refining hypotheses, designing the research approach, and drawing on primary and secondary sources to build a robust evidence base.

• Taking accountability for the accuracy, reliability, and completeness of fact bases by critically evaluating sources, stress-testing assumptions, and ensuring all data is fit for purpose before it informs analysis or decision-making.

• Leading quantitative and qualitative analysis including external market analysis using Excel and Power BI, and ensuring data integrity, identifying trends and anomalies, and translating findings into clear, actionable insights.

• Developing and applying analytical frameworks to identify, prioritize, structure, and solve complex business problems, including proactively spotting gaps, surfacing issues, and asking the right questions to sharpen the team's thinking.

• Taking ownership of aspects of high-quality presentations and reports, including synthesizing complex analysis into clear, compelling narratives and insights that are fit for senior leadership audiences.

• Managing and continuously improving the Strategy team's knowledge repositories and network lists, and serving as a reliable point of contact for related information requests.

• Managing day-to-day relationships with internal stakeholders and external counterparts, acting as a credible and trusted point of contact, and ensuring alignment and continuity throughout engagements.

• Partnering with senior leaders on ad hoc strategy requests, including taking initiative to scope, structure, and deliver against these needs with minimal direction.

Qualifications

• A four year college degree

• Minimum of two years of relevant work experience

• Excel and PowerPoint skills

• Experience with other tools & systems such as SharePoint, Visio, and similar is an advantage.

• Confident and able to work with senior stakeholders

• Able to utilize analytical skills to research and analyze issues

• Communicate well verbally and in writing

• Possess strong organizational skills and detail oriented

The New York salary range is: $104,000 - $156,000.

This role reports to

Global Director of Strategy

Equal Opportunities

White & Case is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

Applicants who are interested in applying for a position and require an accommodation during the process should contact talent.acquisition@whitecase.com.

Benefits at White & Case

White & Case LLP offers a comprehensive suite of benefit programs to all eligible employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability coverage, 401(k) retirement savings, vacation time, and leave programs (including parental leave). Exempt roles are also performance bonus eligible.

The Firm may modify and amend any job description at any time in its sole discretion. Nothing herein creates a contract of employment or otherwise modifies the at-will nature of employment.

The above is only a general description of the essential duties associated with this position and does not represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties.

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