What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Billing Specialist position at Alvarez & Marsal?
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:
Diversity & Inclusion
A&M’s entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M’s core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is Alvarez & Marsal’s practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, family medical history, genetic information or other protected medical condition, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by and in accordance with applicable laws. Employees and Applicants can find A&M policy statements and additional information by region here.
Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters
Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our Inclusive Diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.
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
- 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
Diversity & Inclusion
A&M’s entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M’s core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is Alvarez & Marsal’s practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, family medical history, genetic information or other protected medical condition, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by and in accordance with applicable laws. Employees and Applicants can find A&M policy statements and additional information by region here.
Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters
Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our Inclusive Diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.
Salary : $60,000 - $65,000
