DLA Piper
Client Accounts Project Manager - CT
Chicago, IL
Sponsorship not specified$111k-$147kDetected 9 hours ago
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About the role
- DLA Piper is, at its core, bold, exceptional, collaborative and supportive.
- Our people are the backbone, heart and soul of our firm.
- Wherever you are in your professional journey, DLA Piper is a place you can engage in meaningful work and grow your career.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day engagement with designated partners, clients, and internal teams to ensure financial administration needs are addressed with accuracy, urgency, and professionalism.
- Convert detailed billing, receivables, and matter information into clear business updates, insights, and recommendations that support informed partner and client decision-making.
- Drive follow-through on outstanding items by coordinating with clients, partners, billing personnel, collections staff, and client administration teams through resolution.
- Support electronic billing by helping address submission errors, reductions, or rejections.
- Recommend and implement practical enhancements to workflows, communication practices, reporting methods, and service delivery processes.
- Establish reusable guidance, operational standards, and knowledge-sharing resources that promote consistency across the department and support broader strategic initiatives.
- Complete additional responsibilities as requested in support of departmental and firm priorities.
- Ability to perform analysis and reconciliation between cross-jurisdictional billing and financial systems.
- Excellent communication, analytical, relationship-building, problem-solving, and leadership skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear, actionable insights.
- Ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments, work effectively with partners, clients, and cross-functional internal teams, and drive consensus.
Requirements
- Proficiency in project management tools such as Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Asana, or Trello.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Bachelors Degree in Finance, Law, Business Administration or related field.
Nice to have
- Strong understanding of legal billing, alternative fee arrangements, matter profitability, realization rates, and client service delivery models.
- Experience with billing, collections, client accounting, e-billing, budgeting, accruals, legal financial systems, and matter financial management.
- Experience managing global retainers and multi-jurisdictional matters preferred.
- Familiarity with legal financial systems such as Aderant and Intapp preferred.
Compensation
- Maintain ongoing visibility into client payment activity and help execute focused collection strategies that support annual financial goals.
Benefits
- Minimum Education
- Preferred Education
- The compensation offered for employment will also be dependent on other factors including the candidate's experience, skills, educational and professional background, and overall qualifications.
- Any relocation benefits, if any, are provided only where a relocation is required at the firm's direction and in accordance with applicable policy and law.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Company info
- We are committed to excellence in how we serve our clients and develop our people.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits, including medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k).
Equal opportunity
- Accommodation
- For accommodation requests, please contact careers@us.dlapiper.com.
- equal opportunity employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- No immigration sponsorship is available for this position.
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