Legal Analyst

About the OpportunityEpiq Counsel is seeking a Legal Settlement & Payments Analyst to support our client, a global technology leader, within its Legal Operations team.This role sits where legal meets finance. You’ll own a high-volume queue of payments for legal settlements, court orders, and regulatory fines across the client’s global legal teams. Each payment is yours from start to finish: collecting and checking the documentation, submitting the payment, and seeing it through to confirmed completion. This is not a support role on one step of the process. You’ll own the whole thing, and you’ll be the person Legal, Finance, Tax, and Treasury rely on when a non-standard payment needs to move.About the ClientOur client is one of the world’s largest technology companies. Its Legal Operations team supports legal departments worldwide and works closely with Accounts Payable, Finance, Tax, Treasury, and supplier onboarding teams. Payment volume is high, many requests are non-standard, and deadlines are often tight.Key DetailsEngagement Type: Interim engagement (Epiq Counsel model)Duration: One year, with potential for extensionHours: Full-time, approximately 40 hours per weekWork Model: RemoteStart Date: As soon as availableCompensation: $83,000–$104,000 annualized ($40–50/hour)Benefits: Healthcare, 401(k), paid vacation, paid holidays, plus engagement support and coachingResponsibilitiesSettlement Payment Queue Management (40%)Manage and prioritize a high-volume queue of settlement, court order, and regulatory fine payments.Take each request end to end: document collection, then payment submission, then payment management through completion.QA settlement documentation, including court orders, W-8/W-9 forms, and banking details.Payment Processing & Supplier Onboarding (30%)Review, validate, and submit payment requests through the client’s finance and procurement systems.Initiate and manage supplier onboarding for payees, legal vendors, and outside counsel.Monitor processing timelines and escalate urgent payments that need expedited handling.Stakeholder Communication & Coordination (25%)Work with Finance, Tax, Accounts Payable, Treasury, and supplier teams to manage the pipeline and resolve processing issues.Follow up with legal teams worldwide to clarify requirements and collect missing documentation.Respond to internal teams and outside counsel on payment status and requirements.Process Support (5%)Maintain process documentation and the Legal Operations team’s internal resources.QualificationsHands-on experience owning legal settlement payments end to end, from documentation through confirmed payment. This could come from a law firm, an in-house legal or finance team, or a settlement or claims administrator.3+ years in legal finance, settlement administration, legal operations, accounting, or procurement.Bachelor’s degree, ideally in accounting, finance, business, or a related field.Working knowledge of W-8/W-9 requirements, supplier onboarding, and invoice or payment workflows.Exceptional attention to detail with legal and financial documents.Ability to manage many high-priority, non-standard requests at once without losing accuracy.A clear, proactive communicator who can explain payment requirements to lawyers and other non-finance stakeholders.Strong Excel skills.Preferred ExperienceERP systems, especially Oracle FusionLegal e-billing platformsCross-border and foreign-currency paymentsThird-party assessment or vendor compliance processesWorking with global teams across time zonesWhy This RoleThis is a chance to own a critical legal payment function at one of the world’s leading technology companies, working across Legal, Finance, and Treasury at real scale. It’s ideal for a settlement or legal-finance professional who wants to run the whole process, with the flexibility and support of the Epiq Counsel model.About Epiq CounselEpiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful work and flexibility to sophisticated, credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of matters for leading organizations across the U.S. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging, high-quality work that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control. We take the time to understand each legal professional's practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure alignment with sophisticated interim in-house opportunities. Leverage our network to work with organizations in need of top-tier legal services, and take the next step in your career by joining a vibrant community of Epiq legal professionals.It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. 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