“It’s about more than balancing figures. It’s about empowering lawyers that help people.”
Funding Coordinator, Toronto, Canada
About DivorceMate and LEAP
DivorceMate is Canada’s Specialist in Family Law software, providing critical tools to family law professionals for over 35 years. LEAP is the leading provider of Legal Practice Productivity Solutions in the world and is part of ATI – one of the largest international LegalTech companies. For more than 30 years, our curiosity and commitment to continual improvement has kept us reimagining productivity tools for lawyers and their staff to support our guiding purpose, to ‘Help lawyers who help people’. The market leading software we develop and support is used by more than 100,000 lawyers and their staff in small and medium sized law firms. This role will work closely with DivorceMate and LEAP departments.
Meet the team
DivorceMate and LEAP are rapidly growing organisation with a global footprint, and our Finance Team members are the resilient quick-thinkers ensuring that growth is always strategic and sustainable.
A finance career here is about so much more than balancing figures, it’s about providing financial leadership and management that drives not just our own growth, but the growth of our clients too.
Using our Salesforce technology stack including Zuora, Xero & Tableau, you’ll record, evaluate and interpret financial data to identify gaps, trends and areas of improvement which actively make DivoreMate and LEAP even better for our people, clients and communities.
In return, you’ll be supported with resources and opportunities to make more of your career. As well as all the tools you need to turn your financial expertise into analytics and insights that evolve our business and unlock the full potential of DivorceMate and LEAP for our clients.
This role requires a thorough understanding of the funding process and strong expertise in funder requirements in order to obtain timely client credit approval. As such, the candidate must ensure all paperwork, authentication and supporting documents are obtained and fully completed, in preparation for submission. Strong cross functional collaboration with the renewals department as well as new business, as applicable, will be key for the role as well as Client Experience for contract resolutions and service deactivations, as needed, and Finance for funding target alignment.
The Funding Coordinator will also be responsible for presenting the weekly cash flow funding forecast with projected risk adjustment, based on the existing pipeline. Regular updates are essential to determine current funding status and progress. This role also consists of ensuring client account balances are current, as well as actioning any that fall into arrears.
Further, the candidate is expected to provide creative solutions for greater efficiency, process streamlining and shorter turn-around time.
What you’ll do
- Process order forms
- Central contact for DivorceMate customers and funding partners
- Attend weekly meetings with the partners to run through the pipeline and resolve roadblocks
- Obtaining supporting documentation for identification and banking requirements
- Responsibility for collection of past-due accounts
- Maintain Bad debts list for use by Operations to keep track of delinquent firms & assign actions to team members
- Assist our funding partners in gathering the data needed to get credit approval
- Maintain funding information in SalesForce (stage, likelihood etc.)
- Bill out funding partners via SalesForce
- Update Zuora subscriptions
- Provide funding forecast each week and attend weekly meetings
What you’ll bring
- Exceptional organizational skills and self-discipline
- Positive and professional attitude
- An in-depth knowledge of the latest versions of Excel and Outlook
- Strong relationship building and collaboration across departments
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Nice to Have 3+ years of accounting experience
- Ability to create and interpret financial reporting
- Thorough understanding of financial processes and contract requirements
- Strong analytical skills
- Familiarity with dealing with client conflict and frustrations in a positive manner
What you’ll get
- 1-year contract with possibility for extension
- Hybrid working model
- Excellent and collaborative working environment
- A fantastic culture – open communication, and transparency through practical and quarterly strategic briefing.
Life at DivorceMate
DivorceMate is all about impact, growth and ownership. We’re united by a genuine passion for what we do, enriched by the care we show to our customers and each other and driven by the difference we can make together.
DivorceMate culture is about prioritising and celebrating the incredible humans behind our market-leading technology. We strongly believe that personal development and career progression are at the heart of a healthy, high-performing culture and we’re committed to empowering DivorceMate employees with resources, ongoing support and opportunities in both DivorceMate and LEAP career pathways to explore. With us, your career will grow as you do, with opportunities to step into new roles, explore new departments and even work abroad.
What We Do
LEAP practice management software has grown from the belief that it should be fast and easy for legal practitioners to manage matter documents, accounting and billing, so they can focus on practicing law.
Today, LEAP is the world’s largest provider of legal practice management software for small firms; with clients across the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.
Firms have relied on LEAP since 1992 for innovative and powerful software to simplify their workflow. We take this responsibility seriously and dedicate millions of dollars each year to product development. It’s resulted in benefits such as a cloud-based and mobile interface. This allows teams to access their LEAP data anywhere, anytime.
In addition, over 13,000 automated forms and templates are regularly updated for all areas of law, and purpose-built for the United States’ federal and state jurisdictions.
We’re obsessive about evolving LEAP with feedback from clients, so the software is easy to use and allows small firms to get more work done. Our goal is to empower small firms to make more money.
After all, everything LEAP does is geared toward helping the attorneys who help people.
Let the LEAP team become an extension of your practice, so you can focus on what you do best. Spend more time advising on the law!
