Revenue Manager

Our client, a highly regarded London-based solicitors specialising in crime, family law and human rights have an opening for a Revenue Manager to join their accounting team.

• Manage and develop direct reports to ensure that all team objectives, billing deadlines and collection targets are achieved.

• Help to manage and reduce the firm’s lock up to agreed levels.

• Build relationships with key stakeholders across the business.

• Act as the point of escalation for all credit control, WIP management and billing issues and when required ensure that issues are escalated upwards in a timely manner.

• Ensure compliance with all internal controls, policies and HMRC/SRA rules.

• Oversee the finance mailbox to ensure that all requests are being responded to and completed within agreed timescales.

• Continually appraise existing systems and processes and lead on any change initiatives required.

• Play a key role in ensuring the firm is achieving its cash targets by managing and supporting the credit controller.

• Monitor and manage credit levels and follow up with clients, partners, and other fee earners on outstanding invoices.

• Attend meetings with partners, internal management, clients, and the debt collection team.

• Ensure that invoices and statements are sent to clients in a timely manner.

• Play a key role in ensuring the firm is controlling its WIP and disbursements exposure by managing and supporting the billing team.

• Attend monthly/quarterly WIP review meetings with partners and associates.

• Ensure that all time and disbursement transfers and write-offs are performed in timely manner.

• Monitor missing timesheets and incorrect time recording behaviour and ensure that missing timesheets are promptly followed up.

• Produce and circulate weekly utilisation reports.

• Play a key role in ensuring the firm is successfully meeting all billing deadlines by managing and supporting the invoicing clerks.

• Ensure invoices are being addressed and processed correctly (including compliance with HMRC and SRA rules) and be the first point of contact to resolve any invoice processing queries from the team.

Candidate Profile

• Experience of relevant revenue control and management experience in the legal sector
• Proficient user of Excel
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to pick up new systems and procedures quickly
• Ability to work unsupervised
• Excellent attention to detail
• Organised manner with ability to prioritise workload
• Motivated and pro-active with a ‘can-do’ approach
• Understanding of privacy and confidentiality
• Experience of legal aid billing ideally liaising with contract managers at legal aid agencies
• Experience of legal aid audits
• Experience managing high cost cases in the legal secto

Important Notice

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