Billing Controller

This international law firm works from over 20 global offices, their work is cross-border, high profile and complex. They work across many businesses area including insurance, energy, corporate and dispute resolution. They are currently looking for a Billing Controller to join their London office on a permanent basis. This is a great opportunity for someone wanting to advance their career in Legal Finance. **Responsibilities** - Setting Group billing deadline in conjunction with the Finance team. - Ensuring that deadlines are adhered to across the Group and escalating any issues to the Finance Partner. - Liaising with the Finance team monthly to obtain a list of Partner financial targets and then circulating those targets to the Partners. - Collating a list of Partner billing promises and liaising with any Partners that have not raised sufficient draft bills to achieve their promises to find out why; feeding that information back to the Finance Partner(s) and Finance team for further followup where needed Timesheets. - Monitoring any outstanding timesheets - sending chasers around the department to ensure that timesheets are closed on the system. - Assisting the Finance Partner(s) as needed with any departmental timesheet issues. - Administering and dispatching bills for a team of circa.13 partners. - Liaising with the Finance team to ensure the correct monthly reports on financial and billing performance are created. - Keeping an open line of communication with the Partners and finance to help ensure realistic monthly financial targets are set and that are achieved. - Administering Group’s billing spreadsheets to ensure that the billing process can be accurately tracked, and a status report generated at any stage of the process. - Making these spreadsheets available to the Finance team including Credit Control. - Responsibility for the "Billing Team" folder in Outlook and "Billing Team" inbox/sent box. - Maintaining a schedule of unsent bills (eBills, VAT invoices, splits) and chasing the relevant person to ensure that these are sent in a timely manner. - Maintaining and developing the Group’s processes to ensure the billing process is as efficient as possible. - Being the sole point of contact between Group B and the Group’s Biller. - Full ownership of approval of all finalised bills including checking bills for accuracy. - Calculating the remaining reserves and costs and finalising accordingly the settlement reports and erosion trackers. - Liaising with the eBilling team to ensure that eBills are uploaded. - Close liaison with Credit Control, aiding where necessary to enable. - Credit Control to keep track of when net bills have been paid, where VAT invoices need to be sent, eBilling updates, discussions around any splits or market breakdowns. - Attending and meaningfully contributing to Finance meetings. - Regularly meeting with Group A’s Finance Partner to provide updates. - Building strong rapport and effective working relationships with Group B’s Finance Partner and members of the Finance team Billing Mentor. - Providing feedback on billing performance for review meetings. - Proven experience working within a legal finance department within the UK and in professional services and have excellent working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and 3E - Highly numeric and confident with billing processes - Ability to work well under pressure and prioritise conflicting demands, providing a high level of accuracy - Be self-motivated with strong organisational and critical thinking skills - Confident communicator and adept at providing partner communications and reports - Demonstrates a willingness to learn new skills and assist in the on-going development of the firm’s business - A team player with enthusiasm to offer ideas and support others - Ability to act as an ambassador and assist in promoting the role and importance of the revenue team within the Firm **Important Notice** Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanent vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.