Billing Specialist

We are hiring a Billing Specialist for one of our clients in Newark, NJ. Job Description Receive, review, route, and process invoices submitted by outside counsel, experts, consultants, litigation vendors, and other providers of legal services.Review invoices for compliance with applicable engagement letters, contracts, purchase orders, approved rates, staffing arrangements, matter budgets, and outside counsel billing guidelines.Identify and document duplicate charges, billing errors, unauthorized rates or timekeepers, unsupported expenses, block billing, excessive staffing, noncompliant task descriptions, and other exceptions requiring correction or further review.Coordinate invoice review and approval with responsible attorneys, ensuring that attorneys evaluate the substantive necessity and reasonableness of the legal services provided.Communicate with outside counsel and vendors regarding invoice status, required supporting documentation, billing corrections, credits, rejected charges, and other routine billing matters.Monitor outside-counsel expenditures, commitments, accruals, budget utilization, and anticipated costs by matter, law firm, practice area, and other relevant categories.Prepare periodic legal-spend reports, budget-to-actual comparisons and other financial information.Coordinate with other departments to reconcile billing records, resolve payment issues and ensure compliance with agency financial requirements. Maintain complete and organized documentation supporting invoice approvals, adjustments, credits, disputes, and payments for audit, compliance, public-records, and management purposes.Identify recurring billing issues, spending trends, control weaknesses, and opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, accountability, or cost management.Protect confidential, privileged, sensitive, and attorney-work-product information encountered in the performance of assigned duties. Perform other related duties and special projects as assigned. Work Hours Part Time hours, no longer than 30 hours a weekWork hours: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PMLunch period (Unpaid): 30 Minutes Additional Information Dress Code: Business casual About Us We are specialized in recruiting and deliver the best professional talent of industry and we are committed to deliver best experience for our clients and job seekers. With over two decades of experience in the recruitment industry, we proudly help you to find the next job that matches your professional skills. Our team understands your needs or requirement before starting the recruitment, that enables to find the high quality of talent with high success rate of talent delivery, keeps us continue to be the best in the industry. By responding to this job posting, you are consenting to receive text/SMS messages from us. Thank you.