Billing Manager

King & Spalding is a leading global law firm with a commitment to excellence, innovation, and the seamless delivery of legal services. We harness innovative technology and exceptional talent to meet the complex needs of our clients in a fast-paced and dynamic legal landscape. 

The Billing Manager position offers the opportunity for a billing professional to manage and support operations of the billing team, including responsibility for all facets of time and billing functions within the firm.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage the billing analysts in the Texas, California, and Illinois offices (and other offices as assigned), including but not limited to providing mentoring, training, and ongoing feedback, conducting annual performance evaluations, managing and balancing billing workloads, and overseeing schedules and overtime of direct reports
• Participate in interviews and training for new billing team members, as well as create materials to aid in educating attorneys, secretaries, and legal assistants on billing procedures
• Liaise between attorneys and billing staff as necessary to ensure strong working relationships between partners, administrative support staff, and the Finance Department and billing team
• Manage the unbilled and accounts receivable balances for a limited, assigned group of lawyers/clients
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of client billing and payment terms, discount arrangements, as well as lawyer and client preferences to ensure that bills are issued in a timely and accurate manner and that client and lawyer preferences are appropriately considered
• Make recommendations for write-offs of aged or disputed balances where appropriate and maintain billing rates accordingly
• Make recommendations to management on strategies for improving internal processes that maximize productivity and quality of work
• Work with the Senior Billing Manager to develop standard processes and procedures for all phases of the billing cycle; maintain current documentation of such procedures
• Work on special projects as needed

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, or finance required
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience supervising all or a portion of the billing function in a professional services environment is required
• Must be proficient in Aderant or a billing industry standard collection software tool as well as Microsoft Office
• Must be familiar with advanced Microsoft Excel features such as pivot tables, charts, graphs, and formulas
• Must have proficiency in typing and use of 10 key for data entry and adding machine 
• Must have strong organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks and tight deadlines effectively, understanding scope, deliverables, and timelines
• Attention to detail and accuracy are essential
• Proven ability to identify and analyze issues and problems and work towards solutions
• Possess superior interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written) and sound political acumen, with professional persistence.
• Ability to deal with all levels of legal, management, and support staff in a highly effective and professional manner
• Exemplary customer service skills as well as excellent verbal, written, leadership, and interpersonal skills, and be able to communicate well with all levels of personnel

The firm offers a generous total compensation package with bonuses and raises awarded in recognition of individual merit-based performance. All full-time Business Services employees may participate in King & Spalding’s comprehensive benefit program including health and wellness plan, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts and a health savings account, a 401(k) plan, profit sharing plan, and a substantial Paid Time Off (PTO) program.

Pay Transparency Range:

Illinois: $130,000 - $175,000

King & Spalding LLP (K&S) is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees in full compliance with all state, federal, and local laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, age, disability or any other status protected by applicable law. 

We are proud of our remarkably cohesive culture, which now encompasses more than 2,500 lawyers and business professionals worldwide. We seek to attract and develop the very best talent to work with us.