Working Capital Controller - London, United Kingdom - Career Legal

Career Legal

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our Client is a full-service commercial law firm based in London's legal district. They have more than 60 partners and over 300 employees. The Finance department is made up of a central management team, Cashiers, Billing and Credit Control teams.

They are looking for a Working Capital Controller to join them on a contract basis.

Responsibilities

Liaising with all areas of the business supporting the billing and eBiling process.
Assisting with raising proforma, engrossing and all other billing and eBilling related processing. Ensuring all eBilling rejections and queries are dealt with in a prompt and timely manner.
Work directly with client eBilling teams/providers to ensure the firm has all the relevant info required and clients and fee earners are up to date on onboarding progress.
Manage eBilling Hub processes, ensuring client guidelines and rates are updated in the system.
Coordinate accruals, reporting and budgets and submit to client portals.
Preparation for and attendance at monthly WIP meetings. Processing all WIP writeoffs and transfers.
Setting up monthly billing routines, as required.
Dealing with ledger queries and credit note requests, as appropriate.
Arranging for proformas to be raised and/or diarised.
Chasing outstanding proformas on a weekly basis.
Extensive Credit Control experience within a professional services environment
Experience of practice management systems such as Elite 3e and specialist credit control workflow tools (e.g. Credit force).
Strong technical knowledge of VAT issues applicable to billing of legal services and 3rd party costs.
Proactive approach and readiness to recommend and implement process improvements.
Ability to switch from client facing to processing activities as workload requires.
Ability to manage own workload and prioritise accordingly.