Project Billing Specialist - Remote, United Kingdom - Alvarez and Marsal

Alvarez and Marsal

Verified Company

Remote, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Managing the client onboarding process by reviewing client engagement documents for accuracy and execution as well as working with Legal and Anti Money Laundering departments for client compliance.
Initiating and leading weekly / monthly calls with Managing Directors and Director levels to cover all areas of working capital (WIP, AR and collections).
Creating billing summaries and providing analysis of all projects to MD and Director levels including identifying out of scope activity based on work descriptions.
Independently tracking and maintaining the project lifecycle.
Analysing legal agreements to ensure compliance with fee agreements, rate discounts, and firm policies on outgoing invoices.
Performing extensive editing, transfers, writeoffs, and adjustments on projects / invoices
Working closely with cross firm professionals to resolve any issues and ensuring invoices are accurate and complete.
Investigating billing discrepancies and communicating with appropriate team to reconcile issues.
Working closely with the AR team to ensure successful processing of invoices.
Independently tracking AR to initiate collections process when aging balance remains greater than 60 days and communicating with Managing Directors and Director.
Initiating and managing multistep process for foreign affiliate / subcontractor invoicing.
Manage all procurement and client payment systems / vendor set up.

REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor's Degree (not essential).
Business sector and/or financial qualification.
Excellent stakeholder management and ability to build relationships with individuals across all levels of seniority.
Previous experience in the professional services industry.
Strong analytical, math and problemsolving skills.
Extremely detail oriented, acute attention to detail.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
Motivated, organized, and able to prioritize workload, multitask and work independently.
Driven to contribute to the success of the team.
Flexibility to adapt to various situations.
Advanced experience with Excel and Word.