Project Billing Specialist

Description

About A&M

Alvarez & Marsal is a leading independent global professional services firm, specializing in providing turnaround management, performance improvement and corporate advisory services. With almost 9,000 professionals based in 70+ locations across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, our firm excels in problem solving and value creation. Drawing on a strong operational heritage and hands-on-approach, our professionals work closely with organizations and stakeholders to help tackle complex business issues and maximize value.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Proactively and assertively driving the billing process by utilizing complex problem-solving skills along with strong client interaction skills for team of Managing Directors and Director levels
• Creates monthly billing summary / analysis of all projects and communicates to MD and Director levels by setting up calls and driving continued flow of revenue
• Independently tracks and maintains budget by project
• Initiates and leads weekly / monthly calls with Managing Directors and Director levels to cover working capital (WIP, AR and collections)
• Organizes and manages client administration platform
• Review client engagement documents for accuracy and execution as well as working with legal department for client compliance
• Analyzing legal agreements to ensure compliance with fee agreements, rate discounts, and firm policies on outgoing invoice
• Identifies out of scope activity based on work description on monthly reporting
• Performing extensive editing, transfers, write-offs and adjustments
• Working closely with cross firm professionals to resolve any issues and ensuring bills are accurate and complete
• Investigates billing discrepancies and communicates with appropriate team to reconcile issues
• Working closely with AR team to ensure successful processing of invoices
• Initiates and manages multi-step process for foreign affiliate / subcontractor invoicing
• Manage all procurement and client payment systems / vendor set up
• Independently tracking AR to initiate collection process when client balance remains greater than 60 days with communication to Managing Directors and Director levels
• Performing appropriate follow up when issues arise
• Assisting with special projects as needed

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree
• Previous professional services billing experience
• Excellent personable and relationship building skills
• Strong analytical, math and problem-solving skills
• Extremely detail oriented; acute attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Motivated, organized and able to prioritize workload, multitask and work independently
• Driven to contribute to the success of the team
• Flexibility to adapt to various situations
• Advanced experience with Excel and Word

T he salary range is $6 0,000 - $65,000 annually, dependent on several variables including but not limited to education, experience, skills, and geography. In addition, A&M offers a discretionary bonus program which is based on a number of factors, including individual and firm performance. Please ask your recruiter for details .

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