Revenue Assistant

This firm is one of the oldest established practices in London. The Firm can trace its origins back to 1730, the date when registration of attorneys and solicitors was introduced. They are now a thriving medium sized law firm that provides legal services to private clients and to UK and international clients.

They are now looking to recruit a Revenue Assistant. It is the responsibility of the revenue assistant to accurately convet the work in progress (WIP) into a compliant invoice, to secure timely payment of invoices, to resolve and escalate payment queries and to ably assist the billing/ revenue controllers.

Responsibilities

• Process invoices according to established procedures and judiciously send the invoices to our Fee earners.

• Ensure that the debt collection of invoices is undertaken in accordance with the Revenue Control procedure.

• Ensure that queries raised by a client are resolved in the appropriate timeframe and escalated to fee earners, revenue controllers or management.

• Attentively ensure that all relevant information relating to unpaid invoices is recorded in system to be fed back to partners and fee-earners.

• Producing weekly/Monthly Debtor and WIP Reports; issuing Statements; processing credit card payments.

• Dealing with all matters relating to client queries by liaising with clients and fee earners.

• Chasing overdue accounts by following company procedures; maintain accurate records of all chasing activity; send out monthly client statements/letters.

• Provide the necessary support to billing and revenue controllers and keep them informed of all issues and concerns.

Candidate Profile

• The successful candidate will ideally have one to two years previous experience of working as a revenue assistant, biller or credit controller in a professional services environment.

• Excellent inter-personal communication skills (both written and verbal), demonstrating experience of liaising with clients, partners, fee-earners, secretaries and finance colleagues.

• Team player who supports and motivates their colleagues. Follows instructions, but is confident to query instructions when unsure.

• Demonstrate a clear track record of commitment to the highest level of customer service.

• A high level of numeracy is required together with a good understanding of financial workings.

• Experience of legal systems are desirable but not essential. Good keyboard skills and competence in Word, Excel and Outlook are required.

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.