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Travers Smith
An award-winning city law firm. We
build lasting relationships with public and private sector clients.
It is Travers Smith's purpose to provide the very highest quality of
service to our clients whilst enabling our people to achieve
professional fulfilment in a supportive, inclusive and enjoyable
working environment.
Department
The Central Finance Department is a
busy team currently undergoing a number of exciting changes,
including the implementation of a new Practice Management Solution,
Aderant. The longer-term vision of the department is to not only
continue to provide exceptional service levels but also to develop
and enhance systems to ensure these services are delivered
efficiently.
The Role
The Billing and Revenue Controller
takes a pro-active approach to assisting partners, fee earners and
PAs and provides overall billing support including; distributing
reports, generating draft bills, producing final bills and creating
supporting schedules. The role holder will be the main point of
contact for one or more practice areas within the firm. The role
holder will maintain and develop customer relationships through
excellent communication. The role holder will be a hands-on
individual with a pro-active approach to service delivery, who is
flexible with the ability to think laterally and solve problems.
This is a busy and demanding role and
a high standard of performance and accuracy is expected. The role
holder will have experience of working in a busy accounts
department. The role holder will be conscientious, highly organised
with the ability to meet deadlines and a proactive individual who is
extremely competent using legal accounting software packages. This
role reports into the Revenue Control Manager.
Key Responsibilities
Deal with all aspects of the processing of
bills/e-bills and collecting in payments.
Assist partners, fee earners and their PAs to provide
overall billing support including distributing reports, generating
draft bills, producing final bills and creating supporting
schedules as required.
Ensure all bills issued include all required
information and have been authorised in accordance with the firm's
guidelines, VAT and Solicitors Accounts Rules requirements.
Take ownership of the WIP and disbursement balances
for their designated practice area(s) to ensure this is
effectively managed and billed on a timely basis.
Meet partners regularly to ensure monthly billing
targets are met.
Prepare, process and upload electronic invoices to
clients via various e-billing systems, understanding the specific
requirements of each.
Create and format time reports in excel to accompany
bills, for the clients that require them.
Investigate any billing queries raised and report
back to the relevant individual, offering suggestions/solutions
where necessary.
Create and maintaining billing rate tables.
Process WIP transfers, write offs, adjustments and
narrative amendments.
Train new team members on billing processes, as required.
