Credit Controller - Bristol, United Kingdom - Osborne Clarke

Osborne Clarke

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Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Credit Controller to join our Finance team.

Reporting into the Revenue Collections Manager, you will be responsible for the cash collections for key clients and mainly for the Intellectual Property team together with our Commercial department.

This is a permanent position, based out of our Bristol office, with some home working too.

The role

You will help maintain lockup at acceptable levels for those allocated practice groups, encouraging good billing and debt collection behaviour from partners and lawyers, including billing aspects such as WIP chasing, bill production and bill cancellations for your allocated practice groups where relevant to the main purpose.

Key responsibilities:

Reporting into the Revenue Collections Manager, this role will be responsible for assisting the whole team with their cash collections for key clients and to ensure clients are chased earlier enough plus looking after specifically the Intellectual Property team together with our Commercial department.

Also cash allocation processes.

Specific responsibilities will include:

To assist the team with their chasing
To proactively remove obstacles in the way of payment by identifying key client gate keepers who can authorise payment
Acting as a point of liaison between lawyer and client when a dispute or query is raised and assist with resolution at the earliest opportunity
Awareness of client money held when contacting the client regarding settlement
To assist the Manager and team in reaching target given by firm on cash collection each month
The early identification of debt and WIP that is at risk, working with the Collections manager to ensure recovery
To maintain accurate records of client contact on credit control software (ARCS)

Whilst you will have a particular focus (set out in 'Purpose of Job' above), you will assist with the following (non-exhaustive) list of tasks:

Request processing bills, credit notes, bill cancellations & write-offs through billing team
The allocation of money received and processing thereof
Adding remittances to our ARCS software
Working closely with our Cashier and Accounts Payable team for cash allocations and/or any queries resolved
The provision of performance feedback on partners and other lawyers
Ensuring that the client and matter records are accurately maintained
Respond quickly and appropriately to requests and ensure that the relevant people are kept up to date on progress
Carefully prioritise requests. Ensure that, if any nonstandard work is undertaken, it does not negatively impact on provision of core services
Play an active and constructive part in the team

Policies and Processes

Comply with the Firm and Revenue Control team processes and, where required, assist with their development and implementation
Contribute to the ongoing process of policy development, review and maintenance as required
Ensure awareness of Solicitors confidentiality rules and Accounts Rules

Person specification:

An understanding of finance or credit control processes
A person that enjoys different types of chasing and responsibility for any department or team with an individual target
The ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across all aspects of the Revenue Control team's work and ensure that issues are addressed promptly, professionally, openly and constructively
The ability to communicate and interact appropriately and constructively with clients and colleagues
The ability to work with mínimal supervision and to identify and act on issues which need to be escalated
The ability to assist with the design and implementation of policies and processes

Salary and benefits
We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

For more information or to apply
No agencies please.
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At _Osborne Clarke_ we value difference and encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities, and sexual or romantic orientations. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and where you belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks not to mention our great teams are a part of making that a reality._
We support working families via a range of family and caring friendly policies and will accommodate flexible working where we can.

We value the health and wellbeing of our people:

for example, we're signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, have an active network of mental health champions and offer free initiatives and flexible benefits to all our people.

Being an inclusive employer is important to us. We have made a number of external commitments such as the Race Fairness Commitment and Women in Law Pledge, and are working with organisations like Stonewall to become a more inclusive employer. _
Osborne Clarke is a Living Wage Employer, so we're c