Lowenstein Sandler Hiring for Temporary Billing Assistant Job at Remote Full Time

Who We Are:

Lowenstein Sandler is one of the most sophisticated law firms in the United States, with over 375 lawyers and 300 business services professionals serving clients from offices in New York, New Jersey, Palo Alto, Washington, DC, and Utah. Our primary administrative offices are located in Roseland, New Jersey, where we are consistently ranked among the best places to work in the state. We recruit candidates who seek a collaborative, entrepreneurial culture that prioritizes our clients, our colleagues, and the communities where we work and live. Committed to career development and to a diverse and inclusive workplace, the firm offers many programs and opportunities for personal and professional growth. We seek professionals for our business services group who share these values.

Preferred:

Recent college graduate with a Finance or Accounting degree (Bachelors or Associates), excellent technical, organizational, and communication skills; driven, desire to learn, and a positive attitude.

What You Will Do:

This position will sit in our Roseland, NJ office and currently offers a hybrid remote work opportunity.

The individual in this role will be trained on how to review, edit and prepare client bills. The individual in this role handles routine client billing and less complex client matter portfolios. The individual will develop strong collaborative relationships with client accounting staff and attorneys throughout full cycle of client billing. Excellent client service and satisfaction are required in all areas of the position.

Essential Job Requirements – College graduates will receive training in:

• Learning the billing cycle for a law firm. The individual establishes, fosters, and maintains professional and collaborative relationships with attorneys and business services personnel to ensure compliance with both attorney and client billing specifications; supports all billing processes from engagement to bill posting with tact and diplomacy.
• Understanding outside counsel guidelines and client fee arrangements, and ensure preparation of bills in accordance to the same; escalate potential issues in complying with same.
• Assisting billing staff in processing edits and ensuring time entries comply with firm, attorney and client standards.
• Collaborating with Client onboarding manager to update appropriate fields of client information, according to client billing guidelines. Takes accountability for successful submission and troubleshooting issues. Responding to inquiries relating to billing and payment information; with assistance and guidance prepares ad hoc reports upon request.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure.

• Ability to prepare accurate and detailed work product.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Basic accounting and math skills to perform billing and reporting tasks.
• Excellent critical thinking skills and problem solving in addition to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Ability to focus attention on a task for some length of time.
• Exercises good judgment and decision making in performing essential function of position.

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS AND/OR EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Business discipline preferred.

TEAMWORK AND APPLIED SKILLS:

• Strong initiative to proactively increase value to the position.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage large amounts of data.
• Ability to organize time, prioritizes workload effectively, and works independently.
• Reliability, dependability, and strong motivation to respond to requests quickly

Office Location: Roseland, NJ

Schedule: Full-Time, Monday-Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Amount of Travel Required: None

Disclaimers:

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties or responsibilities required by employee.

Lowenstein Sandler LLP is not accepting resumes from search firms for this position. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms are to be deemed the sole property of Lowenstein Sandler LLP, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Lowenstein Sandler LLP as a result of the referral.

Lowenstein Sandler LLP is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.