About the role

  • Accounting and Billing Manager overseeing the firm’s billing operations and providing financial insight at Stotler Hayes Group. Leading a small team while ensuring compliance with billing practices.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee end-to-end billing operations for all client matters, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and timeliness
  • Manage billing across hourly, contingency, flat-fee, and hybrid arrangements
  • Review and resolve billing issues in coordination with attorneys and firm leadership
  • Support monthly close activities and prepare financial and billing reports
  • Analyze billing, realization, and collection trends and provide clear financial insight to the Executive Committee
  • Demonstrate working familiarity with trust/IOLTA requirements and support compliance with applicable state bar rules
  • Supervise and support a small accounting/billing team, ensuring clear workflows and accountability
  • Contribute ideas and practical recommendations to the development and refinement of billing policies, procedures, and SOPs
  • Maintain internal controls and documentation consistent with professional services best practices
  • Consistently follow up and work with clients on outstanding accounts receivable
  • Research and analyze to provide the best course of action for overdue balances
  • Proactively monitor potential errors that may result in the rejection of e-bills
  • Research and resolve billing issues. Identify and address potential issues relating to volume, workflow, and process improvement of the e-billing functions
  • Conduct monthly monitoring of outstanding receivables via various systems and reports
  • Provide updates to Senior Leadership Team to address any issues or trends
  • Administers the daily operations of the accounting department, including training, supervising and evaluating the department's staff
  • Pro-actively review and monitor billing transactions and activities to ensure accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and conformance to company policies
  • Perform and serve in a cross-functional capacity across all billing department functions
  • All other duties as necessary to support the firm’s accounting and billing functions.

Requirements

  • Accounting degree with thorough knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles
  • Minimum of 3 years of law firm accounting and billing experience desired
  • Ability to establish effective working relationships and lead a team
  • Strict adherence to confidentiality of client and firm matters
  • Strong verbal, written communication, and customer service skills required with ability to exercise considerable judgment and discretion in establishing and maintaining good working relationships with attorneys, staff, vendors, and clients
  • Energy, discipline, and self-motivation to thrive in a fully distributed work environment
  • Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively and work in an environment with shifting priorities & time sensitive deadlines
  • Ability to perform complex financial functions, problem solving, and analysis with accuracy, in a persistent and resourceful manner
  • Ability to utilize computerized accounting and billing software programs with working knowledge of Mac/Apples, Microsoft Office 365 (excel), Adobe Acrobat, such as Clio, QuickBooks, LEDES
  • Demonstrates expertise and management of all facets of electronic billing with knowledge and ability to understand billing systems functionality/capabilities and billing models
  • Ability to handle high billing volume in timely manner

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Vision dental
  • Life
  • 401k contributions with employer match
  • Paid time off
  • Volunteer days

Job title

Accounting and Billing Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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