Career Legal
Our client is a long-established UK full-service law firm, founded in 1790, with its head office in Northampton and offices across Cambridge, Leicester, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Norwich and Oxford. The firm advises businesses and individuals across a broad range of practice areas, including corporate and M&A, banking and finance, commercial and residential property, employment, litigation, insolvency, intellectual property, and private client work, and is consistently ranked by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.
They are now looking for an experienced Billing Administrator, you will be responsible for managing and organising the billing process, maintaining records of billing transactions and ensure accuracy. In addition, ensuring invoices are accurate and processed in a timely manner, as well as handling customers enquiries.
Responsibilities
- Produce billing guides, invoices.
- Raising and sending client bills, ensuring they are raised in accordance with client service agreements/ letters of engagements.
- Ensure correct fee rates are applied.
- Reviewing monthly WIP schedules, analysing the data and raising bills as required.
- When raising bills, checking clients funds and requesting transfer to pay bills if required.
- Identifying and resolving billing discrepancies and issues.
- Maintaining accurate and organised records of all billing transactions.
- Maintaining accurate records of billing transactions and entering data into accounting systems.
- Ensure Compliance with solicitors Accounts Rules (SAR).
- Ensure Compliance with VAT Regulations in relation to output tax.
- Time and Disbursement transfers and write offs.
Candidate Profile
- Proven experience of working in a billing or accounting environment.
- Previous experience of working within a law firm desirable but not essential.
- Aderant experience highly desirable but not essential.
- Good IT proficiency.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong organisational and time management skills; and
- Finance or accounting qualification desirable but not essential.
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.
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