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Legal Billing

Employer
Hays A&F
Location
England, London, City of London
Salary
£35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Closing date
Oct 22, 2020

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Job Role
Accounts Receivable
Sector
Legal
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Legal Billing Job | London City | International Law Firm | £35,000- £40,000


Please only apply if you have legal billing experience.

Your new company
You will be working for an international law firm who have offices in 22 countries and over 1000 partners. This professional business has modern offices and this role will be based in the City of London with excellent transport links.

Your new role
The company are hiring a legal biller who will also be doing a lot of business partnering and liaising with key stakeholders. The duties include:

  • End to end preparation of bills for the Practice Area for a number of specific clients.
  • Working closely with the Partners to ensure the bills are prepared to the required standard, signed off, and ready to be sent to the client by strict deadlines.
  • Regular review of time recording narratives to ensure these are of a standard accepted by clients / relevant e-billing systems.
  • Managing third part disbursements, including:
  • Ensuring these are received promptly from third parties
  • Ensuring format and content of these is acceptable to our clients
  • Liaising with third parties on any disbursement revisions
  • Processing the firm's bills, and ensuring the billing guide adequately supports time or disbursements removed;
  • The fee allocation shown is in line with the firm's policy
  • The VAT treatment is correct before posting to ledger Any other compliance checks are completed Preparation and processing of a number of complex multi-matter bills and foreign currency bills as required.
  • Providing training / guidance to Partners, fee earners or secretaries on billing as required.
  • Dealing with all billing related matters including time transfers, anticipated time, fee allocations, WIP and bill write offs, bill reversals and credit notes.
  • Making certain that there is clear and supportive communication with the Partners and the Finance team to resolve complex matters and billing related issues should these arise.
  • Providing support with uploading bills into the e-billing portals as necessary and ensuring that any resulting queries are followed up with the fee earners and relevant counterparts and corrected in a timely manner
  • Regularly reviewing the fee earners working on the relevant matters
  • Ensuring the fee earner rates have been notified to the clients and uploaded into the e-billing system correctly
  • Ensuring all bills are in line with the outside counsel billing guidelines
  • Overall client / matter maintenance including set up / maintenance of special rates and file closures
  • Regular review and maintenance of WIP on relevant matters, including processing of write offs where necessary
  • Providing support to other billers and the rest of Business Group when not involved with the Practice Area specific work
  • Conducting WIP review meetings as required




What you'll need to succeed
You will need to have experience working in the legal sector in a billing role. You will be confident with liaising with partners and key stakeholder and have excellent communication skills. You will have experience with WIP billing and e-billing.


What you'll get in return
This is an exciting opportunity to work for a highly regarded international law firm who have excellent benefits and long term opportunity. You will be working within a driven and friendly team who work together to reach team targets effectively. Competitive benefits and salary.


What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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