Are you ready to turn complex legal billing data into trusted insight that fuels smart decisions and strengthens our mission to deliver life-changing medicines? In this role, you will be at the center of how we pay, track, and optimize external legal spend—ensuring accuracy and compliance while unlocking opportunities to improve efficiency and cost management.

You will join a high-performing team that partners across Legal and Finance, using digital tools and focused processes to simplify operations and advise strategic choices. Can you conceptualize designing reports that help leaders anticipate spend and act with confidence? Your work will enable faster, cleaner month-ends, more clear vendor relationships, and a sharper view of our investment in protecting the business.

Accountabilities:

• Invoice Governance: Review, validate, and process legal invoices to meet billing guidelines and organizational safeguards, ensuring timely, accurate payments and clean audit trails.
• Vendor Management: Set up vendors, maintain vendor records, and handle payments to strengthen relationships and prevent delays or exceptions.
• Data Integrity and Reconciliation: Examine and balance billing data, proactively resolve discrepancies, and elevate issues to maintain a single source of truth.
• Reporting and Insight: Build and maintain dashboards and reports that surface trends, support forecasting, and guide action on spend performance and process improvements.
• Policy and Compliance: Supply to billing policy design and implementation, ensuring alignment with regulations and internal controls while reducing risk.
• Budgeting and Forecasting Support: Provide information and insights that help the legal department plan, forecast, and lead accruals with precision.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Finance and other teams on month-end close, financial reviews, and tax submissions to accelerate close cycles and improve visibility.
• Issue Resolution: Research, respond to, and resolve billing inquiries from both company personnel and outside parties, advancing sensitive matters appropriately.
• Process Optimization and Automation: Find opportunities to streamline workflows, use technology, and standardize practices that drive speed and accuracy over time.

Skills/Experience:

• Lead vendor setup and vendor payments
• Review and process invoices from external law firms and vendors, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to billing guidelines
• Supervise and track the status of invoices, payments, and accruals, and follow up with relevant parties within and outside the organization as needed
• Prepare and maintain billing reports and dashboards, providing insights and recommendations on billing trends, performance, and opportunities for improvement
• Analyze and reconcile billing data, identifying and resolving discrepancies and errors
• Assist with the development and implementation of billing policies, procedures, and guidelines, and ensure compliance with internal controls and external regulations
• Support the legal operations manager and the legal team with budgeting and forecasting activities, providing data and analysis on billing and spending
• Collaborate with the finance department and other cross-functional teams on billing related matters, such as month-end closing, audits, and tax filings
• Research and respond to billing inquiries and issues from internal and external customers, and advance sophisticated or sensitive cases as appropriate
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the billing process and system, leveraging technology and automation to enhance efficiency and accuracy

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience with legal eBilling platforms and matter management tools, and familiarity with UTBMS/LEDES billing standards
• Strong proficiency in Excel and data visualization tools to build dashboards and trend analyses
• Knowledge of ERP systems and financial close processes, including accruals and reconciliations
• Track record of process improvement, automation, and documentation in a controls-driven environment
• Confident stakeholder management and communication skills across Legal, Finance, and external firms
• Comfort working at pace, balancing multiple priorities, and driving outcomes in a dynamic, evolving setting

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca:

Here, your precision and curiosity will shape how we operate at scale—bringing diverse minds together to solve real problems, harness digital innovation, and accelerate decisions that ultimately benefit patients worldwide. You will collaborate across functions, use modern tools to simplify complex processes, and see your impact in faster closes, smarter spend, and stronger compliance. We value kindness alongside ambition, give you room to explore new directions, and back you with peers who challenge and support you so your contribution drives meaningful change.

Call to Action:

Step into a role where your rigor and insight power better decisions and real-world impact—bring your expertise and make a measurable difference today!