Revenue Controller - Career Legal : Job Details

My client is a global law firm with offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Their client base reads like a 'whose who’ - they include public and privately held commercial companies and financial institutions and national governments.

The firm is now looking to hire a Revenue Controller. Responsible for revenue and credit control for a specified group of partners in the London office, as well as for a small number of key clients globally. The role will also involve liaison with Finance teams in other offices to support the firm in achieving its global targets and will report to the EMEA Revenue Manager.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for meeting with partners and matter managers on a regular basis to review and discuss all WIP and AR balances, documenting outcomes and following up on agreed actions.

• Drafting and engrossing invoices ensuring that they are compliant with firm policy and regulatory requirements. Ensuring signed copies are filed against the matter on 3e.

• Regularly reviewing all WIP balances to ensure that all appropriate actions are undertaken to ensure it can be billed on a timely basis, including regular fee updates.

• Regular review of all aged A/R balances, preparing and agreeing action plans to aid in timely collection. Updating billing and collections tools with discussions and actions taken.

• Assisting with collections of all accounts receivable for designated partners. Utilizing central credit control where necessary.

• Preparation of monthly and quarterly cash collection and billing forecasts for agreed partners in discussion with Finance management and Regional Section Heads.

• Supporting the firm’s key client program for a designated number of clients by: acting as a central point of contact for billing and collection matters; providing regular reporting on financials to Client Accounts Managers and Lead relationship partners; working with Client Accounts Managers to ensure that global fee arrangements are correctly implemented and followed.

• Working with PAs, Revenue Assistants and operations team in Manila to ensure that billing matters are dealt with on a timely basis.

• Liaising with other EMEA office finance teams to support revenue and credit control across the region.

• Maintaining a continuous open dialog with the partners and clients.

• Consulting with managers / billing partner regarding variations to standard terms, agreement of discounts and rate amendments.

• Performing regular and ad-hoc reporting and projects for clients, partners and management.

• Assisting with compliance with the Solicitors’ Accounts Rules, in particular the rules surrounding earmarking of funds and residual balances.

• Ensuring VAT and other local taxes are correctly reflected and accounted for.

• Interim or final invoices can be raised in a timely manner, based on specific instructions from the fee earner, without affecting the remaining WIP and existing task codes.

• Ensuring any write offs of time or AR, time transfers and rate adjustments are actioned promptly.

• Assist with the review of aged WIP preparing summary reports at client/matter/partner level for review and processing write offs in line with firm policy.

• Ensuring internal systems are kept up to date with latest WIP and AR information and that required tasks are diarized and followed up.

• Reviewing unallocated cash and BOAs and ensuring correctly allocated in a timely fashion.

• Working on any other matters or projects raised from time to time.

• From time to time when needing additional support, delegating to and supervising the work of billing specialists both in London and Manila, to make sure bills are completed to the highest possible standards.

Candidate Profile

• Experience in using Elite, 3E, Aderant or similar PMS system.

• Minimum of A Levels or equivalent education essential

• Relevant and in-depth revenue control and collections experience (a minimum of 3 years’).

• Law Firm experience is desired but not essential, ideally in a top 20 firm with experience liaising with overseas offices/international clients.

• Have the ability to inspire trust and confidence from internal and external clients, in particular Partners

• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills, ability to work effectively at all levels within an organization.

• Knowledge of the Solicitors Accounts Rules and VAT.

• Computer literate including at least an intermediate knowledge of Word and Excel.

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 permanent vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.