Revenue Assistant

My client is an international law firm who are lookng for a Revenue Assistant to join their Finance team. This role will be ideal for someone who has billing experience in the legal sector and is looking for a new opportunity.

Key responsibilities:

• The production of draft bills for fee earners, the finalisation of bills in the accounting system and ensuring bills are despatched in a timely manner. Assisting with drafting related correspondence as required
• Regularly reviewing unbilled time and disbursements in order to identify bills to be raised, and supporting efforts to reach billing targets on a monthly basis
• Regularly review WIP reports to ensure dead matters are closed and unrecoverable time and disbursements are written off
• Support and assist the Collections team as well as matter partners by responding promptly to their requests for information
• Proactively work as a team with the Revenue Controllers to help meet targets and identify opportunities to reduce the working capital of the firm
• Ensure the firm's policies and procedures are adhered to, specifically the credit policy, ensuring evidence of approvals are maintained for review by internal audit
• Support all initiatives to improve the revenue and billing processes and/or systems as required from time to time
• Assisting with missing time queries, matter maintenance and providing cover for E-billing

Key requirements

• Basic revenue experience (a minimum of 12 months) gained within a legal partnership or LLP environment
• IT literate, with exposure to Excel and a practice management system, ideally Elite 3E.
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong working relationships at all levels; tactful and diplomatic in pressurised situations