Legal Billing Specialist

Position: Senior Client Accounting Coordinator

Location: Palo Alto, CA (Hybrid)

Salary: $95K $110K + Bonus

Growing Prestigious Law Firm seeks a Senior Client Accounting Coordinator to join their Team!

Responsibilities:

• Handles multiple complex billing and client analysis projects.
• Reviews outstanding balance reports and is proactive about trouble spots.
• Prepares bills and internal forms including appropriate back-up required to process requests.
• Implements Client Accounting procedures, processes and goals by coordinating work effort including timely preparation of client bills and follow-up on outstanding balances with secretarial and other Firm business services professionals.
• Understands and responds to inquiries and requests made by clients, attorneys, and business services professionals.
• Provides relevant information, guidance and support to others in the Firm.
• Ability to formulate strong work team relationships, both internally and externally.
• Works with supervisor(s) to coordinate departmental workflow, provide solutions to problems and develop creative approaches to accomplishing departmental goals.
• Communicates issues and escalates as needed.
• Identifies and communicates to supervisor training and coaching needs of department business services professionals.
• Trains, mentors and assists Client Accounting Assistants and Coordinators as needed.
• Ability to assume a leadership role when supervisor/manager is absent.
• Maintains complete and up-to-date files for each partner and/or client.
• Actively seeks to enhance knowledge of all Client Accounting procedures and processes.
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills to facilitate effective work relationships with others.
• Manages Firm resources responsibly.
• Complies with and understands Firm operation, policies and procedures.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of five years of legal billing work experience including account analysis related functions
• Aderant, Elite or 3E experience
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal and communication skills, both verbally and in writing