Senior Billing Specialist

Responsibilities

• Preparing and processing legal invoices, ensuring accuracy and compliance with client billing guidelines, rates, and firm policies.
• Collaborating with Pricing department to finalize and implement complex billing arrangements, including multi-payor, volume discounts, and alternative fee arrangements.
• Facilitating the preparation and submission of budgets and accruals for specified matters and providing variance analysis to attorneys as requested.
• Utilizing critical analysis to expertly manage the WIP, A/R, and on-account inventories of assigned partners, and offering guidance to ensure inventories remain accurate and up to date.
• Demonstrating strong understanding of e-billing requirements for clients and e-billing sites with varying complexity, effectively communicating those requirements to partners as needed to resolve e-billing issues and provide useful direction to eBilling team.
• Completing ad hoc billing requests as requested by partners.

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will be willing to take initiative to complete tasks accurately and in a timely manner.
• Candidate should be a forward thinker and ready and willing to contribute their ideas towards the improvement of department processes.
• Must have outstanding written and communication skills and a professional phone manner.
• Comfortable interacting with all levels of the organization including with C-Suite executives, Finance upper management, and senior attorneys.
• Must have excellent attention to detail and the ability to work well under pressure in order to achieve individual and team goals.
• Candidate must have the ability to balance multiple tasks with strict deadlines and should be able to delegate work in an efficient manner in order to meet these deadlines.
• An ownership mentality is absolutely essential for success in this position.
• Able to work overtime when necessary.

Experience

• A minimum of five years of billing experience; experience in legal billing or law firm environment is a plus.
• A college degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or related field is strongly preferred.
• Experience with CMS Aderant or Elite billing software required; a high level of knowledge with all CMS Aderant billing applications is preferred.
• Strong technology skills, including knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (with an emphasis on Excel), are a must.

Pay & Benefits

The annual compensation range for this position is $100-115k. The salary offered within this range will depend upon qualifications and other operational considerations.

Benefits offered for this position include health care; retirement benefits; paid days off, including sick time, and vacation time; parental leave; basic life insurance; Flexible Spending Accounts; as well as discretionary, performance-based bonuses.