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POSITION OVERVIEW
Bain Capital is seeking a Senior Associate – Legal Billing & Administration to support the firm’s legal billing function across the Bain Capital platform. The role will partner closely with Legal, Finance, and investment teams, Accounts Payable, and outside counsel to ensure the efficient and timely processing of legal invoices, maintain accurate legal billing data, and enhance the reporting, technology, and controls supporting the function.
Key responsibilities include:
Support and help drive Bain Capital’s legal billing strategy, including initiatives to ensure the efficient and timely processing and payment of legal invoices and enable meaningful analysis of legal billing data across the Bain Capital platform.
Administer and maintain Bain Capital funds’ and advisors’ e-billing and matter management platform, Onit, which serves as the financial system of record for legal matters and facilitates the processing and payment of legal invoices. Support Bain Capital Onit users and work directly with Onit to troubleshoot and resolve system and workflow issues.
Coordinate with Bain Capital Legal, Finance, investment teams, and other stakeholders to manage legal matters in Onit, including new matter creation, matter coding and allocation, ongoing maintenance, payment routing, and matter closure.
Manage a high volume of legal billing activity and proactively monitor invoices throughout the review, approval, and payment process to identify and resolve exceptions, delays, and other issues.
Communicate regularly with outside counsel and other legal vendors to resolve billing issues, facilitate invoice submission, and support vendor onboarding. Partner with the Bain Capital Legal team to maintain and enforce legal billing guidelines, budgets, and other billing requirements.
Partner closely with Accounts Payable and Finance to facilitate timely and accurate payment of legal invoices and resolve payment, coding, allocation, and reconciliation issues.
Build and maintain legal billing reports for Bain Capital Legal, Finance, FP&A, and other stakeholders on both a regular and ad hoc basis, including reporting related to accruals, budgets, legal spend, invoice status, and paid fees.
Provide detailed and accurate analysis of legal billing data across the Bain Capital platform, identifying trends, exceptions, and actionable insights for senior stakeholders.
Help maintain the accuracy and integrity of legal billing and matter data and identify opportunities to strengthen processes and controls across the invoice lifecycle.
Leverage technology, data, and automation to improve legal billing processes, reporting, controls, and…