Legal Operations & E-Billing Specialist

S&P Global; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 59,000 - 109,000; Full time

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Flexible Downtime

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Job summary

S&P Global is seeking a Legal Operations professional to administer e-billing and matter-management platforms within its global legal function. You will process invoices, ensure compliance, and coordinate matter setup with law firms and internal stakeholders.

Collaborating with Finance, Procurement, and technology teams, you’ll drive process improvements, deliver timely analytics, and support spend management initiatives across the department.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in legal operations, e-billing administration, legal support, finance operations, procurement operations, project coordination, or a related field.
• Experience working with e-billing, matter management, finance, procurement, or other enterprise business systems.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint; ability to prepare clear reports, summaries, and executive-ready materials.
• Experience supporting projects, tracking milestones, following up on action items, and helping drive workstreams from planning through execution.
• Experience using AI-enabled productivity tools to improve efficiency, streamline workflows, and support smarter ways of working.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with legal professionals, law firms, vendors, Finance, Procurement, and technology partners.
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset, with the ability to identify root causes, resolve operational issues, and recommend process improvements.
• Ability to handle confidential information, exercise sound judgment, and maintain professionalism in interactions with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary administrator and day-to-day coordinator for the department’s e-billing and matter management platform.
• Process, review, and monitor legal invoices to support timely approvals, accurate coding, and compliance with billing guidelines and established controls.
• Coordinate matter setup, law firm onboarding, vendor maintenance, user support, and related system administration activities.
• Monitor invoice exceptions, billing rule violations, approval workflow issues, and matter data quality; work with internal stakeholders and law firms to resolve issues promptly.
• Support outside counsel engagement processes, fee arrangement administration, accrual tracking, budget support, and law firm communications.
• Generate routine and ad hoc reporting on legal spend, accruals, vendor performance, matter activity, and operational metrics.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, legal professionals, and technology teams to support invoice payment processes, spend management initiatives, and process improvements.
• Maintain e-billing documentation, process guides, billing records, and controls to support governance, audit readiness, and consistent execution.
• Assist with implementation, testing, training, and rollout of legal technology enhancements, workflow improvements, and operational initiatives.
• Coordinate special projects supporting Legal Operations & Transformation, including project plans, status updates, dashboards, communications, action-item tracking, and stakeholder follow-up.
• Conduct process analysis and research to identify improvement opportunities, support better ways of working, and improve the user experience for internal clients and law firms, also using the company’s AI tools.
• Support departmental communications, training materials, playbooks, standard operating procedures, and other resources that enable consistent adoption of legal operations processes.

Skills

e-billing systems

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Project coordination

AI-enabled productivity tools

Vendor management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Legal Tracker

Ariba

Job description

S&P Global is seeking a Legal Operations professional to administer e-billing and matter-management platforms within its global legal function. You will process invoices, ensure compliance, and coordinate matter setup with law firms and internal stakeholders.

Collaborating with Finance, Procurement, and technology teams, you’ll drive process improvements, deliver timely analytics, and support spend management initiatives across the department.