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Seeking Full-Time Legal Billing / Account Management Support Role

Dynamic, Details-Centric Professional who offers proven experience in Billing / Invoicing, Account Management, Accounts Payable / Receivable, Payroll, Petty Cash, Data / Records Management, Client / Vendor Relations, and Regulatory Compliance. Ambitious Self-Starter who applies superior analytical abilities to quickly adapt to evolving financial scenarios, as well as independently resolving in-depth issues to boost success. Excellent Communicator who upholds the utmost confidentiality in challenging situations.

Career Highlights Include:

  Proactively handling high-volume account management and billing processes.

  Excelling within key legal, administrative, and consultative roles to drive success.

  Effectively preparing diverse billing documents and written client communications.

  Continually promoting enhanced workflow, time management, and data / recordkeeping.

  Building and sustaining mutually beneficial relations with attorneys, clients, and third parties.

Capitalized on the opportunity to lead forward-thinking client account management and billing initiatives. Personally handled billing for 40+ attorney clients, including preparing client bills and statement of accounts, maintaining client files, and researching and responding to charges and special requests. Ran an outstanding inquiry on a monthly basis for attorney clients over 45 days, and informed attorneys of outstanding or short-paid balances. Entered comments into ARGS 2G. Processed estimate billings, history, WIP, accounts receivable, and timekeeper reports. Objectively advised attorneys as to how to prepare special invoices to ensure clients clearly understood terms and billing processes. Drafted and distributed memos. Communicated with clients to resolve issues and / or address concerns for prompt payment.

Expertly reconciled and coded firm s petty cash up to $30,000 daily, including ensuring TBAs were settled within a 2-week period. Reconciled food, courier, FedEx, and postage invoices for payment. Delivered accurate data entry and assisted with payables for month-end closings. Communicated among diverse vendors regarding invoice adjustments for proper resolution. Entered firm disbursements into system as required. Verified payday time entries for entire firm, along with managing telephone, FedEx, and personal deductions from employee paychecks. Ensured seamless firm operations by managing professional licensure forms and compliant documentation for partners and Of Counsel. Cost-effectively managed travel expenses.

Demonstrated solid interpersonal relations skills toward building valuable relationships with adults requiring special services and support from this non-profit organization, including handling high-volume billing operations, government contract management, and data entry. Handled bank reconciliations, managed petty cash, and accurately tracked cash flow within a complex internal spreadsheet.

Played a vital role in optimizing administrative processes by proofreading journal entries and computerized edits, resubmitting revisions, and reconciling partners monthly bank statements. Reconciled firm s cash flow. Prepared W-2s, and adjusted payroll as necessary, including inputting overtime and comp time for payroll as necessary to ensure accurate recordkeeping and employee payment.

Accounting ￨ Finance Program Graduate Temple Business College

Undergraduate Business Management Studies (3.4 GPA) Ashworth University

School of Data Programming Certificate ￨ Desktop Publishing Certificate

Professional Seminars in Financial Spreadsheets ￨ Word Programming

Microsoft Office ￨ Lotus 1-2-3 ￨ Quattro Pro ￨ Computron ￨ Aderant ￨ ARGS 2G

WordPerfect 6.0 ￨ CMS ￨ Graphis ￨ Financial Spreadsheets ￨ WP5 ￨ Calculators