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About the Role

The Senior Billing Specialist will manage all aspects of legal billing, including preparing, reviewing, and submitting invoices, ensuring accuracy and compliance with client and firm guidelines. This role requires strong knowledge of legal billing practices, attention to detail, and effective communication. The specialist will also mentor junior billers and handle a high volume of work.

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 mulitpayor, volume discounts, and alternative fee arrangements.
• Facilitating the preparation and submission of budgets and accruals for specified matters and provide variance analysis to attorneys as requested.
• Utilizing critical analysis to expertly manage the WIP, A/R, and on-account inventories of assigned partners, and offer 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 communicate 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.

Requirements

• Willingness to take initiative to complete tasks accurately and in a timely manner.
• Forward thinker, ready and willing to contribute ideas towards the improvement of department processes.
• 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.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to work well under pressure in order to achieve individual and team goals.
• Ability to balance multiple tasks with strict deadlines and delegate work efficiently.
• An ownership mentality is essential for success.
• Ability to work overtime when necessary.

Skills

• Legal billing practices
• Attention to detail
• Effective communication
• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel emphasis)
• CMS Aderant or Elite billing software

Location

• U.S. offices

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• Minimum of five years of billing experience

Education Level

• College degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or related field is strongly preferred.

Salary/Compensations

• $100-115k

Benefits

• Health care
• Retirement benefits
• Paid days off, including sick time, and vacation time
• Parental leave
• Basic life insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Discretionary, performance-based bonuses

About the Company

• Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm, advising clients on significant transactions and disputes.
• Our exceptional teams craft and deploy creative legal strategies that are meticulously tailored to every matter, however complex or high-stakes.
• The firm’s work is distinguished by a unique combination of precision and vision.

Equal Opportunity

• Gibson Dunn will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of local law.
• Gibson Dunn is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities.
• We strive to ensure an inclusive and accessible hiring experience.
• The Firm will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable participation in the application and recruitment process, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.