Accounting and Billing Manager

**PLEASE NO RECRUITERS**

Turner, Padget, Graham and Laney, P.A. is one of South Carolina's longest standing law firms with seven locations.

We know our people are our greatest asset and it is reflected in our core values and mission that we put into practice every day. We understand the importance of balancing work, family and community involvement and have created an environment that emulates just that. Excellent benefits start the first of the month following your first day of work; competitive salaries, cutting edge technology and a most pleasant workplace are features of employment at our firm.

We are currently seeking an Accounting Billing Manager for our Columbia, SC office.

Accounting and Billing Manager

An Accounting and Billing Manager at a law firm directs the financial operations related to client billing, accounts receivable, and general accounting. They oversee the billing cycle from pre-bills to final invoices, enforce client billing guidelines, and ensure strict compliance with trust accounting and state bar regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Billing Operations: Manage the end-to-end billing cycle, including hourly, contingency, flat-fee, and alternative fee arrangements.
• e-Billing: Oversee the preparation and submission of electronic invoices through platforms like Legal Tracker, CounselLink, and TyMetrix.
• Trust Accounting: Ensure compliance with IOLTA (Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts) rules and ethical standards.
• Team Leadership: Supervise, train, and evaluate billing coordinators and accounting staff.
• Financial Analysis: Analyze Work-In-Process (WIP), realization rates, and Accounts Receivable (A/R), providing detailed reports to firm leadership.
• Collections: Work alongside partners and clients to resolve outstanding balances and reduce unbilled time.

Qualifications and Skills

• Experience: Requires 3 to 5+ years of law firm accounting/professional organization or legal billing experience, with prior management responsibilities.
• Education: A Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration is highly preferred.
• Software Proficiency: Advanced knowledge of legal accounting software (e.g., Aderant, Elite, Clio, QuickBooks) and electronic billing platforms.
• Communication: Exceptional diplomacy and tact when communicating with demanding partners, clients, and firm stakeholders

Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce, including attorneys and support staff, and conducting business with diverse clients.

The firm broadly views diversity as all differences that make us unique and special life and work experiences, culture and beliefs, race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, education, military service, differing abilities, and other distinguishing characteristics and aspects of life. The firm strives to foster and maintain a culture that values and embraces these differences, and includes diverse people in the life and work of the firm, so that our diversity strengthens and improves the entire organization.

All employees share the responsibility for creating a workplace that values and respects diversity and inclusion and is enhanced by openness, trust, teamwork, accountability, and involvement.

The firm encourages everyone to contribute their unique perspectives, backgrounds, and capabilities to maximize client satisfaction, maintain strategic relationships with business and community leaders, create a unified and personally rewarding team culture, and generate superior business results.

Turner Padget has a comprehensive and competitive salary. Turner Padget provides its staff the tools they need to be a successful part of our team.

Turner Padget is an equal opportunity employer, and all inquiries and submissions will be held in strict confidence.

Salary commensurate to mid-manager level position

**PLEASE NO RECRUITERS**