My client is a growing international law firm specializing in litigation and dispute resolution, particularly in the insurance, reinsurance and liability areas. They have offices spanning the globe and over 1000 employees, with headquarters in the City of London and several other offices in the UK.

They are now looking for a Working Capital Assistant Manager to join their Chelmsford office.

Responsibilities

• To lead and develop a team that provide proactive transactional support for billing and collections, providing an efficient and effective billing solution, and maximising collections to actively support reduction of lockup.

• Actively develop strong relationships at Team Leader/Partner level, leading and/or supporting the team with regular lockup reviews, with the purpose of pursuing billing opportunities and specific actions to accelerate collections.

• Working collectively with other Assistant Managers and the team ensure that all queries and issues are returned to fee earners resolved utilising the combined knowledge and resource in the Working Capital Management and wider Finance team.

• Working with peers, ensure that all staffing issues regarding holiday & sickness cover, performance and recruitment are managed in a collaborative and consistent manner.

• Monitor team and individual performance to ensure the delivery of a first class service across the firm.

• Ensure a high standard of service to the firm's internal clients to assist in developing the professional reputation of the department.

• Develop, motivate, mentor and coach team members.

• Mentor and develop team members to problem solve and aspire to stand out as SMEs and future leaders within the team.

Candidate Profile

• Demonstrable experience of leading transactional teams covering billing and/or collections with a strong track record in goal setting, performance management, recruiting, training, performance management and disciplinary.
• Must have Advanced Excel and reporting skills: Ability to streamline data reporting to internal and external customers into meaningful information, report writing, data trend analysis. Word, PowerPoint presentation of monthly numbers.
• Experience in legal and insurance sectors would be beneficial, but key is a strong target driven, commercial mindset.
• Flexible and adaptable to deal with changing requirements, able to balance competing priorities and deliver in line with management expectations
• Can do attitude with excellent communication and relationship building skills. Pushing team to adopt the same Can do attitude to problem solving to both internal and external issues.

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanent vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.