Legal Associate

Position Title: Legal Associate/Legal Expense Auditor

Position Summary:

The Legal Associate reviews legal and non-legal invoices on behalf of our customers for services provided to insurance carriers and corporate legal departments.  The Legal Associate will conduct a compliance review of customer-specified billing guidelines and/or Generally Accepted Principles and Standards (“GAPS”). He/she must have both excellent analytical and oral and written communication skills, with an aptitude and willingness for ongoing learning.

Responsibilities:

• Understand and apply appropriately customers’ legal billing guidelines and standards while auditing legal and vendor invoices.
• Effectively manage invoice volume and workflow in accordance with customer standards.
• Work independently to finalize and approve legal invoices for payment.
• Consistently meet quality performance standards for invoice review.
• Work with other team members to jointly meet team review goals. 

Required Skills:

• Communication: Excellent spoken and written English comprehension.
• Technical Skills: Standard computer skills and ability to become proficient in Bottomline’s legal spend management applications.
• Decision making: Exercises independent judgment based on training, data, and information available and assumes responsibility for decisions.
• Quality: Ensure accuracy, completeness, and quality of work.
• Ethics: Ability to work with and for other team members in a culture of collaboration.
• Teamwork: Ability to work in a team environment, take feedback positively and support team members in sharing knowledge and work assignments.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working in insurance litigation and/or legal spend management.
• Experience working as part of a global team.
• Experience working in a remote setting.

Education and Experience:

• 3+ years of experience as a Legal Associate in insurance litigation, costs law, or as a Legal Expense Auditor.
• Bachelor’s degree in Law or equivalent.

About Bottomline Technologies

Bottomline Technologies provides collaborative payment, invoice and document automation solutions to corporations, financial institutions and banks around the world. The company's solutions are used to streamline, automate and manage processes involving payments, invoicing, global cash management, supply chain finance and transactional documents. Organizations trust these solutions to meet their needs for cost reduction, competitive differentiation, and optimization of working capital.

Serving industries such as financial services, insurance, health care, technology, communications, education, media, manufacturing, and government, Bottomline provides products and services to approximately 80 of the Fortune 100 companies and 70 of the FTSE (Financial Times) 100 companies.