Billing/Finance Assistant

This firm is recognised as one of the UK's leading specialist Intellectual Property law practices. They are a boutique firm dedicated to IP and to serving knowledge, technology and brands-based industries. 

They are now expanding their accounts department and seeking to hire a person with a couple of years experience of working in billing or accounts payable within a law firm.

Responsibilities

• Preparing and distributing billing guides to Partners for review
• Amending and transferring time entries as instructed
• Producing draft invoices
• Checking, finalising and submitting invoices to clients in various formats, including via email/clients’ e-billing system
• Liaising with Partners on billing issues including following up unsettled draft bills
• Processing disbursements, Counsel Fees and overhead invoices
• Daily incoming payment processing (office and client account)
• Processing outgoing payments (disbursements and overheads)
• Processing and reconciling foreign currency and petty cash
• Corporate card admin and processing

Candidate Profile

• Prior experience within billing
• Experience if working in the accounts department of a law firm. 
• Strong Excel skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent time management skills

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanent / temporary / fixed term contract vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.