Billing Assistant

**Description**:
To work within a billing team ensuring that bills are generated promptly in line with client guidelines.

To play an active role in the production and despatch of individual bills and investigate reasons for bill discrepancies and take such steps to reduce the cause of such errors. To liaise with fee earners and other members of Keoghs staff, ensuring that all responsible tasks are conducted in as efficient and accurate manner as possible.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- To raise fixed fee and final bills in accordance with the client guidelines and instructions from fee earners.
- To despatch bills promptly via the correct process and in line with the relevant guidelines.
- To prepare and despatch client Bordereaux reports as required liaising with other departments to ensure the information contained is accurate.
- To process and review bills via electronic billing processes
- Control the advance billing for a number of clients.
- Collate disbursement vouchers with bills before sending to clients as necessary.
- Deal with various queries from fee earners and other members of Keoghs staff
- Assisting in the implementation of controls to improve accuracy of all billing processes.
- To carry out other general duties as requested by the Billing Team Leader to ensure that Finance Department objectives are being met

**Working Hours**
35 hours a week Monday - Friday 9am-5pm, with 1 unpaid hour for lunch. Office location for this role is Liverpool, St Pauls Square. This role is office based 4 days a week until successful completion of training.

**Experience, Skills and Qualifications**:
**Skills and Experience required**:

- Ability to deal with complex pricing within a computerised system
- Good numeracy skills, confident with numbers and able to balance and reconcile figures
- Ability to work to tight timescales to ensure all tasks are completed in a timely manner
- Ability to communicate effectively with other Keoghs staff members at varying levels (fee earners and partners etc)
- Well organised with the ability to prioritise.
- To take an active role within the Finance department and display excellent team working skills
- To be flexible in order to proactively assist in the general day to day duties of the finance department

**Values**
Our culture is focussed on making Keoghs sustainable and successful for our people and clients, with this our four values are at the heart of everything we do;
We are connected
We are dynamic
We are innovative
We succeed together

**Benefits**:

- Davies Incentive Plan
- 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)
- Simply Health Care Cash Plan
- WeCare - 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing
- Death In Service - after 1 years’ service
- Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
- Cycle to Work Scheme*
- Tech Scheme*
- Season Ticket Loan*
- Gym Flex*
- Access to Online Discount Sites
- Discounted Gourmet Society Membership
- Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide
- Discounts at local retail outlets
- after successfully completing probation

**About Keoghs**:
We are a specialist professional services and technology firm, working in partnership with leading insurance, highly regulated and global businesses.

We help our clients to manage risk, operate their core business processes, transform and grow. We deliver professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including excellence in claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation & risk, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation & change management.

Our global team of more than 6,500 professionals operate across ten countries, including the UK & the U.S. Over the past ten years Davies has grown its annual revenues more than 20-fold, investing heavily in research & development, innovation & automation, colleague development, and client service. Today the group serves more than 1,500 insurance, financial services, public sector, and other highly regulated clients.