Billing Coordinator

Latham & Watkins

Billing Coordinator managing invoicing and accounts receivable for legal firm. Collaborating with attorneys and finance team while ensuring compliance with firm policies and timelines.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $90,000 - $105,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serving as a liaison among attorneys, attorney support, the Global Finance team, and clients, ensuring timely responses to both internal and external inquiries
Preparing and analyzing complex client billing by meticulously reviewing, approving, and posting client invoices; ensuring all billing activities comply with firm policies, client guidelines, and rate agreements, maintaining a high level of accuracy and precision
Generating and reviewing proformas from 3E, monitoring work-in-progress (WIP) fees and costs, flags balances to billing attorneys, and addressing WIP balances according to billing attorney instructions, in line with the “Gold Standard”
Promoting best practice for matter maintenance to ensure the judicious conversion of WIP to cash, including the accurate opening and timely closure of matters, appropriate rate/discount and e-billing setups, proper bill frequency matter coding, prompt submission of time entries, and timely application of BOA balances
Delivering client invoices to client/E-billing team or tracking delivery of client invoices and matter statuses, ensuring prompt delivery of invoices to client and monitoring invoices not sent, coordinating on client platform and E-billing onboarding tasks
Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Requirements

What you’ll need

A high school diploma or equivalent
A bachelor’s degree in Accounting, or related field, preferably
A minimum of three (3) years of experience in general accounting practices and billing processes and practices
Display well-developed and professional interpersonal skill, with the ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the firm
Demonstrate the ability to work in a team environment with a customer service focus
Possess thorough knowledge of procedures such as posting, balancing, debits, and credits

Benefits

Comp & perks

Healthcare, life and disability insurance
A generous 401k plan
At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
Professional development programs
Employee discounts
Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff

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Hard Skills & Tools

Invoice PreparationBilling AnalysisPosting ProceduresBalancing AccountsDebits and Credits

Soft Skills

Customer Service FocusProfessional Communication