Specialist - Finance and Accounting (India)

Elevate Flexible Legal Resourcing

Website: elevate.law
Job details:
Elevate is recruiting a Specialist in our Finance and Accounting team. As a Specialist, you will work with billing team, participate in billing work along with the Accounts Receivable team for any questions and concerns, and collaborate on process improvements.

Specifically, a Specialist - Finance and Accounting will

• Review and process employee expense reports, ensuring compliance with firm policies. Add expense receipts received from stakeholders to expense management tool.
• Upload AP invoices/expense receipts to DMS, saving disbursement invoices to applicable matter folder.
• MIS Reports – Preparing multiple reports as per the requirements from clients.
• Handle queries from internal stakeholders and vendors/clients received in mailboxes.
• Gather detailed information about clients and legal matters, including contact details, background, and specific requirements from lawyers/partners and other stakeholders.
• Follow-up with approvers to approve pending expense reports.
• Differentiate operational and client billable expenses. Add disbursements to billable projects in accounting/practice management systems.
• Handle urgent check/ACH/EFT payment requests.
• Sanity check of WIP entered before each billing cycle to ensure all time entries are entered with correct descriptions and with correct hourly billing rates for timekeepers.
• Edit prebills in system as requested and marked up by bill reviewers/matter lawyers in pre-bills generated in word files.
• Move time and disbursements between matters as per instructions from bill reviewers.
• Re-gather WIP in bill if time moved between matters.
• Seek approval from authorized person (matter lawyer/partners) on pre-bills.
• Finalize the pre-bills, generate final invoices in system.
• Follow exceptions if there are any for specific matters regarding generation/dispatching of bills i.e., specific billing guidelines from clients.
• Handle various tasks of eBilling i.e., submission of invoices in pdf and electronic format (LEDES file) to various eBilling platforms – Tymetrix, Legal Tracker, Coupa, Counselgo, ARIBA; Handling client billing rejections and amending the invoice as per comments received from client billing team.
• Responsible for overall data management.
• Manage a team and guide fellow members wherever needed.
  
  

Skills For Success

• Strong workflow, time management and prioritization skills.
• Ability to coordinate multiple projects with deadlines and changing priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Strong interpersonal and client relationship skills.
• Strong ability to work collaboratively.
• Strong attention to details.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of Actional Step, Xero or Business Central will be an added advantage.
  
  

Technical Skills

• Experience with Microsoft Products like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint.
• Knowledge of Accounting tools such as Serengeti, NetSuite, ActionStep, Xero, Elite 3E, Emburse etc.
  
  

Experience

• Proven working experience of more than 6 years as a Finance and Accounting.
  
  

Qualifications

• B. Com – Commerce
• MBA with Finance will be preferred.
  
  

Company Information

Elevate is a law company. We provide software and services for the intersection of business and law. Our legal, business, and technology professionals offer practical ways for global law departments and law firms to improve efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.

Our Most Recent Achievements And Distinctions Include

• For the ninth consecutive year, in 2024, Chambers & Partners named Elevate as a Top global services provider, ranking us as Band 1 (highest ranking) in all applicable categories (Contract Lifecycle Management, Litigation Services, and Flexible Legal Staffing) and as an Alternative Legal Service Providers in Asia-Pacific.
• For the fourth year in a row, Elevate’s integrated law firm has been designated as a top law firm in Commercial Litigation in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers/US News & World Report Best Law Firms.
• Newsweek awarded Elevate highest rating in the annual ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity’ list and ‘America’s Greatest Workplace for 2024’ list.
• Elevate was named a top ALSP in Asia by Thomson Reuters’ Asian Legal Business in 2024.
• Co-winner, 2022 Financial Times Collaborative Innovation Award for Industry Impact.
• Winner, Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, and 2016.
• Named by ALM Intelligence as the only Pacesetter in the Legal category in its 2021-2022 Legal Department Legal Operations report.
• The first non-lawyer-owned global legal services provider to receive an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) License to provide legal services in the US.
  
  

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