Department: Finance
Location: Manchester
Role: Billing Assistant

The Firm
Clyde & Co is a global law firm with 400 partners, 2000 legal professionals and 3600 staff in over 40 offices across six continents. Its core global sectors position it at the heart of global trade and commerce: insurance; marine, natural resources and energy; projects and construction; aviation. Our vision is to be our clients first choice for complex, multi-jurisdictional matters in our chosen sectors by investing in our core practice areas in chosen locations, serving an international client base and build a network of offices in key trading zones. Our key focus is also to become the "go to" firm in emerging markets, running ourselves professionally by attracting and developing the best people.

The Role
This role is a key position within a fast-paced Working Capital Team responsible for managing the Lock Up of the Partners working within the Casualty practice. This is a varied role with elements of ebilling and covering a variety of clients, types of work and processes. The successful candidate will work closely with other working capital teams to provide a seamless service to clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and review matters post inception for Finance processing requirements
  including billing addresses, rates and billing arrangements.
• Processing accurate invoices and credit notes using the in-house billing system to ensure that the agreed service levels are met.
• Processing of apportionment (multi-party), net recovery and joint billing
• Dealing with billing queries and enquiries via email and phone
• Managing the various inboxes used to manage the volume of work & processes
• Processing WIP write-offs
• Using the Firm's systems to look up general queries on spreadsheets, 3e or case
  management systems.
• Dealing with all aspects of e-billing across all platforms, ensuring matters are set up and prepared for e-billing processes, including collating references and budgets.
• Maintain records of work in Excel
• Assisting in the distribution or dispatch of completed bills
• Undertake ad hoc responsibilities as required by line manager

Essential Skills & Experience

• Preferred experience in billing within a legal environment
• Professional manner in all forms of communication
• Excellent organisational skills ability to prioritise competing workloads
• Experience and understanding of apportionment (multi-party), net recovery and joint billing
• Ability to work well as part of a team
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines
• Strong attention to detail and high levels of accuracy
• Previous experience of E-billing (ideally in a legal context) and LEDES formats, and prior use of the 3E platform would be highly desirable

This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.

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