Our client firm’s history dates to 1777, their clients range from some of the UK’s largest businesses and institutions, housebuilders, and developers through to investors, professional partnerships, family offices, not for profit organisations and private individuals.

They are looking for an experienced Revenue Controller this role will be responsible for, WIP management, billing, and credit control. You will be required to liaise with Partners and team members at all levels and external clients applying an assertive yet tactful approach., while maintaining positive and constructive relationships

Responsibilities

• Supporting a group of Partners and splitting time between sitting in Finance and with the relevant legal practice groups to liaise directly with the Partners and lawyers and taking responsibility for their billing and credit control requirements.

• Closely monitoring billing and cash collection budgets and targets as well as reviewing WIP balances.

• Processing bills using the Elite 3E billing workflow

• Ensuring Elite 3E collections module is updated with the latest comments about debt collection and ensuring action tasks, reminders, follow up notes etc are carried out.

• Reviewing daily bank statements and CHAPS payments to ensure funds are allocated to the correct matters.

• Administering payments by credit/debit card.

• Arranging and attending monthly meetings with Partners to review WIP and debtors to agree a course of action and follow-up to ensure completion in the agreed timescales.

• Agreeing with Partners on timescales of converting WIP into bills for forecasting purposes.

• Dealing with all aspects of client queries regarding invoiced fees and any detailed information that may be required.

• Ensuring queries are dealt with promptly, escalated and followed-up with Partners/fee earners and assisting with obtaining PONs from key clients.

• Preparing debt reporting statements and liaising with the Operations team on cheque and bank transfers.

• Ensuring money in client account designated for our bills is monitored and transferred swiftly to office account in accordance with SRA Accounts Rules.

• WIP valuations - This would involve periodically meeting Partners to carry out a detailed exercise to establish net recoverable value for WIP on each matter and recording information in Excel spreadsheets on a quarterly basis.

• Ensuring that all team objectives, billing deadlines and collection targets are achieved.

• Help to manage and reduce the firm’s lock up to agreed levels.

• Build relationships with key stakeholders across the business.

• Act as the point of escalation for all credit control, WIP management and billing issues and when required ensure that issues are escalated upwards in a timely manner.

• Ensure compliance with all internal controls, policies and HMRC/SRA rules.

• Attend to the billing and credit control email box to ensure that all requests are being responded to and completed within agreed timescales.

• Processing bills for relevant departments during month end and year end and ensuring that bills are prepared and despatched promptly.

• Ensuring charge out rates coming from the CMI system are approved and accurate before they go live in 3E via SQL.

• Running proformas and amending rates as and when required and performing time/rate re-calculations.

• Reassign proformas in the 3Eworkflow for partners who are either on leave or in meetings.

Candidate Profile

• Confidence and the ability to place pressure tactfully on individuals and companies who owe money.

• Strong customer service/stakeholders’ management experience.

• Excellent numeracy skills and ability to reconcile accurately.

• Flexible to the requirements of the role and an adaptable approach when required.

• Highly organised and good attention to detail.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt your communication style to meet the needs of different audiences.

• Excellent IT skills - knowledge of Elite 3E would be desirable, and a competent level of Microsoft Office including Excel, with a love for exploring how technology can streamline processes.

• Able to build effective relationships with the team and other internal and external stakeholders. Able to communicate effectively with senior leaders of the business

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.