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The Director of Billings will work closely with the finance and accounting department teams and is a business partner to the attorneys responsible for billing clients' fees and expenses.
Day-to-day duties:
- Lead and manage the firm's centralized billing function
- Understand the firm's billing requirements and help improve the firm's client centric billing function based on single point of contact
- Play a key role in recruiting new talent for the reorganized function
- Serve as an effective leader and coach to team members
- Provide coaching and feedback, inspiring team members' continued development
- Identify critical business issues faced by the billing and client service team
- Partner with financial systems management to develop billing technology solutions
- Consider the use of machine learning/AI tools as it relates to recurring major functions
- Evaluate, recommend, and execute continuous process improvements
- Work closely with Risk Management and client intake team to ensure outside counsel guidelines are aligned with billing practices
- Develop strong relationships with billing attorneys to ensure that their and their clients' needs are met
Skills required:
- Experience running a client services function within a service center environment.
- Significant accounting experience in a professional service industry
- Strong experience managing staff with a proven ability to lead people
- Proven track record of successful change management
- Experience with Aderant and e-billing systems highly desirable
- Proven ability to lead, develop, and contribute to quality team relationships
- Ability to change and adapt to current and future responsibilities and circumstances
This search has now concluded.
We regularly work on senior legal appointments, many of which are conducted on a confidential basis and never advertised. Register with us to hear about future opportunities that match your experience.