Senior Associate

Who we are

We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.

Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.

Our one firm global strategy is focused on targeted growth led by the needs of our core clients, those who we can best support with the breadth and depth of Clifford Chance expertise, across the sectors and geographies, which matter most to them.

You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world-class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.

Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.

The role

Job Purpose Summary

• The Global eBilling Team is responsible for the processing, monitoring and exception handling of the firm's bill to the client on an eBilling intermediary. The role is responsible for ensuring that the ledes file for the invoices submitted successfully to the client via intermediary within the defined SLA.
• This requires validation of the bills, failure reasons, analyzing rejection reasons and resolving subsequent issues that pose a barrier to successful submission of the ledes files.
• The role demands to work collaboratively with client teams, intermediary support team and global offices.

Key responsibilities

• Allocated task completion within the turn around time.
• Working with client's teams and firm's global offices to enable successful ledes file uploading across the various eBilling platform.
• Review existing or incoming bills for accuracy and compliance as per client's guidelines.
• Escalate issues to the supervisor.
• Ensure continuous improvement & best practice is adhered to.

Qualifications

Your experience

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to discuss complex issues with a varied audience including clients and global offices.
• Enthusiastic, self-starter/self-learner, flexible and adaptable.
• At least three years of eBilling experience gained within a professional services firm.
• Experience of working in a billing / revenue department of a law firm.
• Ability to read and troubleshoot LEDES eBill file formats, and experience of working with eBillingHub is essential.
• Advanced experience of eBilling systems in the market such as CT TyMetrix, Mitratech Collaborati, Ascent, Legal Tracker, Passport/Datacert, Corridor, Brightflag, BillingPoint and eBillingHub etc.
• Working knowledge of global law firm finance processes and procedures.
• Basic knowledge of the tax rules and regulations from a revenue and billing perspective would be an advantage.

Additional Information

Equal Opportunities

At Clifford Chance, we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.

We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age. This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.

We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.

Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm.

Find out more about our inclusive culture here