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Greater Atlanta Area

Senior Ebilling Specialist at Freeman Mathis and Gary, LLP (February 2015 – present)· Responsible for generating and editing prebills, posting invoices and submitting to clients via ebilling systems and/or email, appealing client reductions if necessary, requesting approval for and making write-offs as needed, identifying and resolving issues which lead to invoice rejection, creating new clients / matters in the firm’s time and billing system (around a hundred per month), performing conflict checks, reconciling new matters between firm’s time and billing system and client ebilling systems, and resolving issues with time entries in firm’s system before generating prebills.· Provided billing and accounts-receivable related support to ten billing attorneys.· Handled an ebilling workload of around 500 invoices per month, across 30 ebilling sites and 100 different insurance carriers· Reconciled new matters with client systems, thereby enabling firm to submit invoices and receive payment in timely fashion· Responded to attorney and client inquiries in timely fashion.· Assisted coworkers with difficult-to-resolve invoice submission issues.· Consistently met and exceeded production goals. Enabled firm to meet all billing deadlines and receive payment for work performed.

Greater Atlanta Area

Responsible for submitting invoices to clients via client invoicing systems, running reconciliation reports to ensure all invoices are submitted in timely fashion, and identifying and resolving issues which lead to invoice rejection.· Worked through a sizeable backlog of aged receivables, enabling the firm to receive payment for these items.· Consistently met and exceeded production goals. Enabled firm to meet all billing deadlines and receive payment for work performed.

Responsible for posting cash payments from clients (up to $100,000 per day), tracking down and correcting misapplied payments, requesting additional fee approval from Fannie Mae when necessary due to cancellation and restarting of a foreclosure action on a Fannie Mae loan (approximately twenty loans per month), uploading title search invoices from a dedicated inbox into the firm’s file management system (approximately thirty per day), reviewing and reconciling monthly statements from the firm’s vendors (five per month), and assisting the regular billers in submitting invoices to clients.· Balanced multiple roles within the billing department while completing all work in a timely fashion.· Saved the firm hundreds of dollars monthly through diligent review of statements from service providers.· Consistently met and exceeded all production goals. Helped the department meet all client deadlines for submitting invoices.

Provided excellent service to customers in a quick-service, casual restaurant environment, resulting in repeat business. Demonstrated the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and in a timely fashion. Provided on-the-job training to new hires. Consistently received commendations from customers and managers.

Integrated telephone company records into a geographically-based Adobe platform where each record could be accessed by clicking on the area of the city map to which that record corresponds. Ensured high customer satisfaction by checking records and maps to ensure consistency, and by delivering all products in a timely manner consistent with customer deadlines.

Bachelor Of Science, Interdisciplinary Studies; Education And Computer Science; Accounting

Bachelor Of Arts, Mathematics