What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Billing Specialist position at Addition Management?
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
Salary : $95,000 - $110,000