Billing Analyst

My client is a 25 Partner firm, with a headcount of c200 staff. They specialise in practice areas as diverse as Business & Finance, Private Individuals, Public Services, Regulatory Matters and Social Housing.

Due to expansion, they have an opening for a Billing Analyst.

The Billing Systems Analyst assists all departments with the end-to-end process of billing, including developing and maintaining effective and professional procedures for the management of the firms billing function.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for processing billing received from fee earning departments through our financial system.
• Identifying and raising billing queries with departments in a timely and professional manner.
• Responsible for the monthly submission of statements to our clients in a timely and accurate manner.
• Providing accurate copy bills to clients in a timely manner.
• Adding Purchase Order numbers to the system generated bills and providing updated bills to our clients.
• Working closely with and assisting the credit control team in relation to client billing queries
• Ensure compliance with Solicitors Accounts Rules.
• Assisting the Operations Manager with the development of the billing process and system development.
• Assisting the Operations Manager with leading on change management to the billing process and system upgrade
• Working with internal stakeholders on upgrading the billing system and processes.
• To aid and cover to the members of the billing team.
• Building and maintaining good working relationships with the Accounts Operations Team so that queries can be resolved in a timely and accurate manner.
• Keeping the Operations Manager fully informed of issues and providing suggestions and solutions to deal with them, as well as ideas for process improvements.
• Maintaining up to date and accurate records of query statuses.
• Maintaining an organised and accurate filing system.

Candidate Profile

• Minimum of five 9-4 grades at GCSE or equivalent including grade 6 in English & Maths.
• A minimum of 3-5 years’ experience working within the billing function of a law firm.
• A high attention to detail to produce work/documentation which is consistently of a high standard.
• Proactive in identifying and raising issues at an early stage to enable effective resolution.
• Good computer skills (competent in Excel and Word).
• Extensive time management skills with the ability to prioritise workload.
• Must be able to work as part of a team and possess excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Willingness to excel within an accounts environment and keen to learn.

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted, you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.