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Our client is a City of London law firm with a headcount of 500 staff in offices across Europe. They specialise in many areas of law including Commercial, IP & Technology, Tax, Corporate Finance & M&A, Employment and Real Estate amongst others.
They offer a great benefits package including season ticket loan, private health insurance, corporate health club memership, generous pension contributions and on-site restaurant, amongst others.
Our client is looking to recruit a Billing and Revenue Controller. The successful candidate will have to take a pro-active approach to assisting partners, fee earners and PAs and will provide overall billing support including distributing reports, generating draft bills, producing final bills and creating supporting schedules.
Responsibilities
- Deal with all aspects of the processing of bills/e-bills and collecting in payments.
- Assist partners, fee earners to provide overall billing support including distributing reports, generating draft bills, producing final bills and creating supporting schedules as required.
- Ensure all bills issued include all required information and have been authorised in accordance with the firm's guidelines, VAT and Solicitors Accounts Rules requirements.
- Take ownership of the WIP and disbursement balances for their designated practice area(s) to ensure this is effectively managed and billed on a timely basis. Meet partners regularly to ensure monthly billing targets are met.
- Prepare, process and upload electronic invoices to clients via various e-billing systems, understanding the specific requirements of each.
- Create and format time reports in excel to accompany bills, for the clients that require them.
- Investigate any billing queries raised and report back to the relevant individual, offering suggestions/solutions where necessary.
- Create and maintaining billing rate tables.
- Process WIP transfers, write offs, adjustments and narrative amendments.
- Train new team members on billing processes, as required.
Candidate Profile
- Previous experience in a billing’s role in a professional services environment(preferably Law Firm)
- Knowledge of Aderant/Elite
Important Notice
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Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanent vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.
