Billing Administrator
About the Role
Sewell Wallis is pleased to be working in partnership with a leading global law firm to recruit a Billing Administrator for its Edinburgh team on a 12 month contract.
This role is ideal for a motivated, detail-focused individual who is eager to succeed in a fast-paced professional environment. The successful candidate will have some previous experience in accounts or billing and a strong desire to learn and grow within the role.
What will you be doing?
- Requesting Ad-hoc proformas and generating reports.
- Amending proformas upon request and inputting billing guide amendments to the pre-billing system in line with the Partner/Associate's requirements.
- Review time narratives for accuracy of recording, identifying and correcting typos.
- Forwarding billing guides to alternative reviewers and editors as required in the pre-bill system.
- Dealing with the volume of invoices & billing-related queries.
- Liaising with the Working Capital Support team to assist in the resolution of complex queries.
- Preparation of narratives and fee breakdowns as required.
- Preparation of covering documents for dispatch on generated bills for Partner/Associate review.
- Facilitating the dispatch of bills to clients in line with the client's requirements, where necessary.
- Liaising with the eBilling team to provide billing guidelines and portal requirements.
- Requesting Credit Notes/re-issue instructions via Finance workflow and other post billing queries.
- Liaising with other finance teams to ensure the accurate and timely drafting and preparation of bills.
What skills are we looking for?
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate confidently with clients, partners and other stakeholders.
- Able to work within given time-frames and be able to anticipate likely workflows.
- Ability to consistently produce accurate work with exceptional attention to detail.
- Self-motivated, proactive and able to prioritise and manage own workload.
- Ability to use initiative, but also work well within a team.
- Experience in a partnership or professional services environment with a finance background.
- Analytical skills to resolve queries.
- Proficient in MS Excel and Word.
What's on offer?
- Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually).
- Flexible, hybrid working policy.
- Generous bonus scheme.
- Up to 25 days holiday (rising to 28 days with service).
- Holiday exchange scheme.
- Private medical insurance.
- Enhanced parental leave.
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To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
