Senior Billing Coordinator
About The Position
Dentons US LLP is currently recruiting for a Senior Billing Coordinator to be resident in our Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City or St. Louis office. Under supervision of the Billing Supervisor, the Senior Billing Coordinator is responsible for all aspects of drafting and finalizing client invoices. Responsibilities include coordination with partners, secretaries and responsible attorneys to manage time entries and edits, adjustments, write-downs, rate management and bill posting. Will submit bills via the e-billing Hub and ensure invoices that require electronic invoicing are submitted timely. The Senior Billing Coordinator is expected to perform all job duties with a commitment to providing optimal service to clients, attorneys and co-workers, while producing a high quality work product.
Requirements
- College degree or equivalent work related experience, preferred
- Minimum 5+ years’ legal billing experience
- Expertise working with Elite 3E or Elite Enterprise required
- Expertise working with e-billing hub and navigating e-billing websites, required
- Strong knowledge of billing practices and client relationship management
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Must be detail oriented with excellent organizational skills
- Must be able to collaborate with team and meet departmental deadlines
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work independently and meet strict deadlines
- Flexibility to work overtime as needed
Responsibilities
- Monthly generation and distribution of proformas for attorney review
- Edit cost, time and narratives as required by clients and billing attorneys
- Preparation of final billing for review by billing attorney prior to sending to client
- Submission of electronic billing files to various third party vendors using the e-billing Hub
- Work with billing attorney and their assistants to resolve billing issues
- Generation of time and billing reports upon attorney request
- Pro-actively monitor aging of client’s unbilled fees and costs and address with assigned billing attorneys
- Assist Finance department with identification and reconciliation of payments received
- Ensure that requests for special rates and alternative fee arrangements are communicated to the Pricing Committee for review and ultimate disposition
- Maintain documentation of procedures, deadlines and other client and lawyer preferences related to billing
- Support client and partner requests for accrual information that is timely and accurate
- These duties may be ongoing or adhoc in nature
- Other duties as may be assigned to fully meet the requirements of the position
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 401k
- profit sharing
- short-term/long-term disability
- life insurance
- tuition reimbursement
- paid time off
- paid holidays
- discretionary bonuses
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
