Legal Credit Controller
- Recruiter
- G2 Legal Limited
- Location
- Manchester
- Salary
- £25000 - £30000 per annum, Benefits: Benefits Package
- Posted
- 20 Jul 2021
- Closes
- 17 Aug 2021
- Ref
- 1151198-1-GT-29
- Contact
- Gemma Taylor
- Job Title
- Legal Finance
- Practice Area
- Financial Services
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Legal Credit Controller to join a well-respected law firm based in the heart of Manchester City Centre. As a legal credit controller, you will be required to have previous credit control experience, ideally from a law firm. Previous MS Office experience, specifically Excel and Word, is required. Experience of Elite 3e practice management system would be advantageous.
The firm offer a competitive salary banding and excellent benefits package.
Duties include:
The firm offer a competitive salary banding and excellent benefits package.
Duties include:
- Proactive chasing of clients, by telephone, email and letter, to ensure the prompt recovery of outstanding debt
- Arranging and attending monthly credit control meetings with assigned partners, including review of AR lock-up and outstanding debt, agreeing chase actions and next steps inline with agreed AR monthly targets
- Maintaining accurate and comprehensive records in relation to 3E Collections processes to deliver complete chase history for collection items as applicable
- Proactively and promptly dealing with and resolving client queries or questions as they arise
- Assisting with the administration of the credit control inbox, including answering queries, providing reports and information as relating to client requests
- Attending monthly Credit Control Team meeting to review prior month's AR performance, plus providing feedback and input to potential system or process enhancements
- Providing assistance in relation to quarterly debt provisioning process, including review, follow-up and update
- Proactively and promptly escalating issues or queries to Credit Control Manager and agreeing next steps
- Developing and enhancing client relationships with key strategic clients, to include monthly client calls in order to review debt and resolve queries
- Providing assistance and support to Credit Control Manager and Credit Control Team in relation to ad-hoc tasks as and when required
- Completing debt write-offs (when necessary), obtaining partner/management authorisation and updating documentation
- Timely production and dispatch of departmental and client reports as required
- Attending monthly practice area AR review meetings and delivering updates and feedback as applicable
- Liaising and assisting business support colleagues in relation to queries and various requests