Reveue Assistant

This client has a history going back to the late 1800s when they were established in the City of London. They opened their first overseas office in the 1970s and now have offices in ten locations across the globe. With over 500 lawyers worldwide, they are a dynamic, commercial firm and leaders in their specialist business areas.

They are now looking to recruit a Revenue Assistant. It is essential that the successful candidate must have law firm experience and have had a background within billing.

Responsibilities

• Producing draft bills for fee earners and finalising them in the accounting system, ensuring bills are despatched in a timely manner. Assisting with drafting related correspondence as required.
• Regularly reviewing unbilled time and disbursements in order to identify bills to be raised and supporting efforts to reach billing targets on a monthly basis.
• Reviewing WIP reports to ensure dead matters are closed and unrecoverable time and disbursements are written off.
• Supporting the Collections team as well as matter partners by responding promptly to their requests for information.
• Ensure the firm's policies and procedures are adhered to, specifically the credit policy, ensuring evidence of approvals are maintained for review by internal audit.
• Support all initiatives to improve the revenue and billing processes and/or systems as required from time to time.
• Respond to ad hoc queries from other departments and fee earners in respect of billing and revenue.

Candidate Profile

• At least 6 months experience within a legal partnership or LLP environment.
• Thorough understanding of best practice techniques for managing the revenue cycle.
• IT literate, with exposure to Excel and a practice management system, ideally Elite 3E.
• Excellent written and communication skills;
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong working relationships at all levels; tactful and diplomatic in pressurised situations.

Important Notice

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