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Senior Rate Coordinator 16524380
Washington, DCCordia Resources by Cherry Bekaert is partnered with a top law firm who is seeking a Senior Rate Coordinator to join their team on a permanent basis. The Senior Rate Coordinator will manage the implementation and maintenance of the Firm's billings rates and fee arrangements and coordinates the compliance process to ensure clients' outside counsel guidelines are being executed.
Title: Senior Rate Coordinator
Location: Remote - must be local to the Washington, DC area
Salary: $75,500 - $105,000 depending on experience
Job Type: Permanent / Full Time
Duties and Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
For immediate consideration please email your MS Word version of your resume to jay.zanone@cbh.com
Title: Senior Rate Coordinator
Location: Remote - must be local to the Washington, DC area
Salary: $75,500 - $105,000 depending on experience
Job Type: Permanent / Full Time
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for analyzing, managing and reporting the accuracy, integrity and compliance of client account data and documentation.
- Supervises the maintenance process for new matter set-up of clients and matters including fee arrangements, task coding, address and formats. General maintenance including matter reopening and closing, address changes, client name changes and requests for billing attorney name changes.
- Oversee the review of outside counsel guidelines and engagement letters from clients to ensure discounts in accounting database are consistent with our understanding with client. Ensures proper approvals of discounts are obtained.
- Compile, disseminate and be well versed on client billing requirements and institutionalized discounts.
- Implement and manage rates and fee arrangements including annual increases and determine best practices for rates set up. Communicates directly with attorneys on their implementation of annual increases and provides analyses.
- Maintains database of pending rate negotiations and approvals including e-billing vendor approvals and regularly communicate status to billing attorneys.
- Document and track firm wide client discounts and ascertain best practices for discount set up in Accounting database.
- Provide e-billing team accurate listings of timekeeper rates for submission to 3rd party vendors for both the annual increase process and monthly as needed for new timekeepers.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Minimum 3 years client accounting/billing experience in a law firm or professional services environment.
- Hands on systems skills with Elite, Excel, Access and similar programs.
- Must have excellent technical skills including MS Office and billing software in a professional services environment, strong communications skills, professionalism, and exceptional interpersonal skills.
For immediate consideration please email your MS Word version of your resume to jay.zanone@cbh.com