The Role
We are seeking a qualified and experienced candidate to join the Sixth Street team in our newly-created legal operations and analytics function (“Legal Ops”). The function will be part of Sixth Street’s global Vendor Management Team and will have responsibility to partner with legal professionals, firm and fund accounting teams, and the broader vendor management team to design, implement, and operate controls and processes that can drive strategic decisions on Sixth Streets legal spend.
Core Responsibilities
- Financial Support: Assist with finance, expense allocation, law firm billing management, and general administration.
- Invoice Review: Conduct initial invoice reviews to validate billing codes, financial attributes, and compliance with established guidelines.
- LEDES File Support: Aid large-volume legal providers in preparing and processing monthly and quarterly LEDES files.
- Billing Inquiry Management: Manage the legal billing inquiry inbox, ensuring prompt and effective responses to queries.
- Vendor Onboarding: Oversee the onboarding of new legal vendors, ensuring receipt of all necessary documentation.
- Billing Application Administration: Manage the legal billing application, including vendor profile creation, assignment, invoice review routes, and AP integration.
- Relationship Management: Build and maintain relationships with outside counsel billing professionals.
- Collaboration: Work with legal vendors and internal stakeholders to resolve billing inconsistencies and errors.
- Reporting: Assist in preparing billing and financial reports, forecasts, and budgets.
- Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline billing processes and implement best practices. Participate in projects to enhance operational efficiency.
What We Value
- Highly motivated, entrepreneurial, and team-oriented candidates with strong organizational, project managing and accounting skills
- Strong analytical skills with ability to distill data into key themes and analysis that can drive strategic decisions
- The ability to balance being commercially minded, but focused on risk and controls
- Strategic / entrepreneurial mindset
Preferred
- 3+ years of experience as a Billing Analyst, preferably within a legal or professional services environment.
- Strong understanding of billing procedures, financial analysis, and accounting principles
- Strong academic background and undergraduate degree.
- Experience with Simple Legal, or similar technology preferred
- Ability to problem solve, anticipate needs, and prioritize.
- Intermediate to advanced computer skills.
- Self-starter who requires little day to day management but responds well to strategic direction.
- Ability to multi-task and maintain composure in a high-volume environment.
- Strong sense of urgency; ability to execute quickly and efficiently with strong attention to detail.
- Strong verbal and written communication abilities.
- Structured problem solver who can synthesize sophisticated information from a variety of sources into implementable recommendations and solutions
- Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and backgrounds.
- Comfort working in a high growth, iterative environment
About Sixth Street
Founded in 2009, Sixth Street is a leading global investment firm dedicated to developing themes and offering solutions to companies across all stages of growth.
Our firm is designed for cross-platform collaboration at scale: we build businesses, invest for growth, acquire assets, provide direct financing, identify value in public markets, purchase royalty streams, and regularly develop first-of-their-kind structures to meet the strategic objectives of management teams.
We do all this globally and as one unified team of investment and control-side professionals working on behalf of our institutional investors and their beneficiaries around the world.
We believe our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is a competitive advantage. Everyone on our team contributes their perspectives and expertise to help us solve complex challenges and get to the right answer. At Sixth Street, the best idea wins. From how we conduct business to how we engage in our communities, everything we do at Sixth Street is rooted in our commitment to our core value:
- Cross-Platform: We think across the business and avoid silos at all costs
- Responsibility: We are accountable for our business, to our team, and to our communities.
- Ethical: We are ethical and direct in word and deed.
- Action: We initiate, execute, and deliver results.
- Teamwork: We are better together.
- Entrepreneurship: We seek to innovate both inside and outside our business.
For more information, visit the Sixth Street Careers site or follow us on LinkedIn.
Sixth Street is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, genetic history, marital status, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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