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: Oversee and serve as the “system owner” for the Legal Department’s ebilling system, ensuring legal invoices to meet billing guidelines and organizational safeguards, enabling 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.
• 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:

• 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
• Strong interest in or experience with AI tools
• 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!

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Annual base salary for this position ranges from 72,244.00 to 94,820.25.

AstraZeneca is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The range provided in this posting represents an offer pay range used in a majority of situations. The base pay offered will vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, and other specific business and organizational needs.  In some cases, offers outside the range may also be considered to address unique circumstances.

In addition, our permanent positions offer an annual Variable Pay Bonus/Short Term Incentive opportunity as well as eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (if applicable to role).  Benefits offered for permanent roles include a competitive Flex Benefits & Retirement Savings Program, 4 weeks’ paid vacation, and annual Personal Days. Fixed Term Contract/Temporary positions (excluding students) are offered a Contract Benefits Program.

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