Billing Coordinator

Responsibilities

• Serving as a liaison among attorneys, attorney support, the Global Finance team, and clients, ensuring timely responses to both internal and external inquiries
• Preparing and analyzing complex client billing by meticulously reviewing, approving, and posting client invoices; ensuring all billing activities comply with firm policies, client guidelines, and rate agreements, maintaining a high level of accuracy and precision
• Generating and reviewing proformas from 3E, monitoring work-in-progress (WIP) fees and costs, flags balances to billing attorneys, and addressing WIP balances according to billing attorney instructions, in line with the “Gold Standard”
• Promoting best practice for matter maintenance to ensure the judicious conversion of WIP to cash, including the accurate opening and timely closure of matters, appropriate rate/discount and e-billing setups, proper bill frequency matter coding, prompt submission of time entries, and timely application of BOA balances
• Delivering client invoices to client/E-billing team or tracking delivery of client invoices and matter statuses, ensuring prompt delivery of invoices to client and monitoring invoices not sent, coordinating on client platform and E-billing onboarding tasks
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Qualifications

• Display well-developed and professional interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the firm
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a team environment with a customer service focus
• Possess thorough knowledge of procedures such as posting, balancing, debits, and credits

Benefits & Additional Information

Successful candidates will not only be provided with an outstanding career opportunity and welcoming environment, but will also be provided with a generous total compensation package with bonuses awarded in recognition of both individual and firm performance.

Eligible employees can participate in Latham’s comprehensive benefit program which includes:

• Healthcare, life and disability insurance
• A generous 401k plan
• At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
• Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
• Professional development programs
• Employee discounts
• Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff

Latham & Watkins is an equal opportunity employer. The Firm prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status (including veterans of the Vietnam era), gender expression, marital status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by applicable statute.