Legal Auditor

Legal Auditor

Location: United Kingdom
Job Type: Permanent
Remuneration: Competitive salary based on skills, experience, and qualifications

As a member of the Expert Bill Review Team, you will collaborate with insurance defence lawyers and legal spend industry executives in a supportive, success‑driven environment. The Legal Auditor leverages legal expertise and advanced technology to review law firm and vendor invoices for compliance on behalf of our 350+ customers, including top‑rated AM Best insurance carriers, corporate legal departments, and government entities. The core role involves applying customer‑tailored billing guidelines and aligning each review with the customer’s goals and objectives.

Responsibilities include building a comprehensive understanding of uniquely tailored legal spend management protocols, reviewing legal invoices for compliance, consulting with customers to enhance guidelines and strategies, communicating with law firms to improve billing practices, and managing legal invoice volume and workflow using our Legal Spend Management platforms to handle complex workflows, invoice routing, and data collection. Building strong customer relationships and providing mission‑critical value is essential to our partners’ success.

Key Qualifications

• Knowledge: Comprehensive understanding and experience in Legal Costs and Insurance Litigation.
• Education: Law degree plus appropriate professional qualification required (e.g., Costs Lawyer, Solicitor, CILEX).
• Experience: Legal Costs, Insurance Defence Litigation, Insurance Claims, or Legal Spend Management experience required.
• IT skills: Ability to embrace technology and proficiency with standard industry applications.
• Confidence: Exercising independent judgment based on experience, specialised training, and program metrics.
• Accountability: Demonstrate responsibility for own work.
• Collaborate: Work supportively with and for other team members in a culture of collaboration.

What We Offer

Remuneration & more:

• Competitive salary taking into account skills, experience and qualifications.
• Self‑invested personal pension scheme.
• Holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays.

Health & support:

• Private healthcare plan (including pre‑existing conditions).
• Life assurance.
• Employee assistance programme for wellbeing.
• Group income protection.

Other benefits:

• Voluntary benefits – dental cover, cycle‑to‑work scheme, season ticket loan, wellbeing and digital GP applications.
• Discounts on various products and services.

Zero tolerance policy towards discrimination of any kind, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital or family status, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.

Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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