Supplier Services Payment Operations - Legal Billing Support Associate

The Global Supplier Services (GSS) Legal Billing Support Payment Operations team consists of the Legal Billing Support ("LBS"), Legal Billing Audit ("LBA") and Legal Litigation Settlements functions.

The team is located in the United States, India and Warsaw .

The primary objectives of the LBS are the accurate and prompt payment of legal invoices, and providing issue resolution and process support to internal users (attorneys/paralegals/assistants) and external users (law firms/vendors).

The primary objectives of the LBA is the audit of legal invoices to ensure compliance with Master Service Agreement (MSA) and the Business Guide.

The primary objectives of the Legal Litigation Settlements team is to review settlements requests for completeness and accuracy.

As a Legal Billing Support Associate in Global Supplier Services, you will primarily be involved in supporting LBS operational tasks by identifying and creating knowledge management within Legal's billing inquiry system, reporting and analytics to provide performance metrics (KPI's), assisting and managing complex escalations, supporting and backing-up Legal Litigation Settlements and supporting invoice processing tasks within Legal's invoicing submission system (Passport).

The incumbent will interact with all organizational levels within JPMC and external law firms.

This position will provide support globally and work to streamline/improve current processes for the local professionals.

Job Responsibilities:


* Develop, implement, and manage information and knowledge across the LBS teams and identify process improvements within operational processes, systems, and controls


* Collect, manage, and analyse large data sets and provide performance metrics (KPI's/KRI's) monthly


* Day to day support and back-up for Litigation settlements process and supporting settlement projects


* 1 st level of support for escalations.

Assisting and responding to complex queries received from internal Lines of Business and external law firms.

This will require the incumbent to partner closely with internal teams such as CAP (Corporate Accounts Payable), internal attorneys, admins, and Business Management to resolve promptly and accurately.


* Process the Legal approval structure through the smartApproval system for invoices and settlements with governance from Legal and Legal Finance by maintaining exception requests, blanket approvals, and updates made to the approval framework


* Support LBS operational metrics, Non-Passport invoice reporting (Concur), and Value Added Tax (Tax) reconciliation with issues escalated to Legal Finance, as well as maintaining, updating supplier electronic submission guidelines, year-end communications, and any ad hoc requests


* Legal Invoicing system (Passport) administration support to evaluate manual processes for automation opportunities, including but not limited to invoice error scenarios, withholding tax assessments, working with technology on ...