Jr. Legal Invoice Analyst

Role: Jr. Legal Invoice Analyst

Location: Minneapolis MN 55402 | Hybrid (3 days On-site)

Role Overview:

The Jr. Legal Invoice Analyst is responsible for the prompt, accurate, and efficient auditing of electronically submitted legal fee and expense invoices from law firms and vendors. This role involves adjusting invoice line items that violate billing guidelines, documenting justifications for those adjustments, and providing guidance to business unit partners regarding issues or opportunities within the Legal Billing Audit (LBA) process..

Key Responsibilities

* Efficiently and accurately review legal invoice entries.

• Receive legal invoice assignments from the Operations Support Specialist and/or work the intake queue for self-assignments.
• Verify the compliance to legal billing guidelines by law firms and vendor submitting invoices.
• Verify the accuracy of the UTBMS task codes (Fee, Activity and Expense codes) applied to invoice line items.
• Document reasons for any adjustments made to invoice line items, identifying the billing guideline violated and the rationale for the amount adjusted.
• Forward the audited legal bill through the review chain as required.
• Communicate and calibrate with Legal Invoice Analyst and Quality Assurance Analyst team members.

Required Skills and Abilities

* Excellent ability to review, analyze and evaluate legal fee and cost/expense invoice entries and to exercise discretion and sound judgment when making audit and adjustment decisions.

• Strong understanding of legal terminology and claims legal situations, multijurisdictional exposure preferred.
• Self-motivated with an ability to work independently and with very limited supervision after training.
• Excellent computer skills with the ability to learn the electronic legal bill submission and auditing software.
• Organizational skills, including the ability to organize work in an orderly fashion conducive to the prompt, efficient review of an appropriate number of legal invoices in a given day or time period.
• Familiarity with common business math and possess appropriate business telephone skills.

Qualifications

* Minimum Education: Paralegal Certification or bachelor's degree in legal related discipline and/or equivalent work experience.

• Minimum Experience: 1-3 years of experience in a legal services or legal auditing environment, including experience with legal billing processes.
• Legal Knowledge: Firm understanding of the federal and/or state rules of civil procedure.
• Tools: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Core Competencies

* Team Work: Must work collaboratively with people within LBACOE and throughout the entire organization.

• Problem Solving: Capable of independent thinking and rendering sound decisions; proactive in identifying and resolving problems.
• Leadership: Exhibits individual control over day-to-day responsibilities and works collaboratively to produce results.
• Planning and Organizing: Must be able to prioritize and implement plans to achieve goals in a given time period.
• Technology & Learning: Ability to identify technology gaps and requirements; demonstrated capability to acquire new knowledge through study, experience, or instruction.
• Initiative and Enterprise: Is self-directed and has the ability to translate ideas into action and get things done.

Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.

Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.