Our Client is a full service commercial law firm based in London’s legal district. They have more than 60 partners and over 300 employees. The Finance department is made up of a central management team, Cashiers, Billing and Credit Control teams.

They are looking for a Billing Assistant, the purpose of this role is to provide financial and administrative support to the Commercial PA team and, in turn, the Commercial fee earning team, with a view to ensuring that individual tasks be completed in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

• Raising proformas (through Elite billing portal) from pre-prepared WIP (Work in Progress) Reports.
• Assisting with bill dispatch.
• Collation of foreign lawyer invoices (to include checking within estimate).
• Assisting with internal billing queries and invoice cancellations.
• Assisting with client queries e.g. invoices sent, internal billing queries and change of entity forms.
• Liaising with the wider finance team in relation to client matter financial management.
• Requesting Purchase Order numbers (POs).
• Assisting with client Data Cleansing (Elite, Interaction, archiving as necessary) and ensuring information is kept up to date.
• General administration assistance and project work for the Commercial LPG/CMI Division.
• Adhoc support for the wider CMI PA group as and when required.

Candidate Profile

• Billing experience within a law firm and experience of using Elite
• Excellent organisational skills
• Strong communication skills

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 vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.