Billing Administrator - London
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Full Job Description
Our busy Billing Team is looking for a Billing Administrator to join a central finance resource supporting partners in dealing with pre/post-billing related administrative activities. Liaising with other finance teams to ensure the accurate and timely drafting and preparation of bills.
About CMS
CMS is a Future Facing firm with more than 70 offices in over 40 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide. We combine deep local market understanding with a global perspective. We are passionate about building strong relationships with our clients, our people, and the communities we work in.
We take a bold, dynamic, and agile approach to ensure our
clients are able to face the future with confidence. We are driven by
technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for
developing new and better ways of working. Our aim is to inspire,
impact and support our clients and our people, helping them to
maximize their potential and thrive.
About the Role
You'll be monitoring Partner & client portfolio of bills issued
and ensure bills are dispatched within the firms policy timeframe
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
•
Requesting Ad-hoc proformas and generating reports
• Amending
proformas upon request and input billing guide amendments to the
pre-billing system in line with the Partner/Associates requirements
• Review time narratives for accuracy of recording, identifying
and correcting typos.
• Dealing with volume of invoices &
billing related queries
• Liaising with all the Working Capital
Support team to assist in the resolution of complex queries
• 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
About You
An ideal candidate will be/ will have:
• Promoting a culture of mutual understanding through effective
communication with our clients.
• Working to given timeframes
and anticipates likely workflows
• Consistently producing
accurate work with exceptional attention to detail
• Willing to
do routine tasks
• Self-motivated, proactive and ability to
prioritise and manage own workload
• Able to use initiative, but
also work well within a team
• Proficient in MS Excel and Word
• Responsible for managing own development and willing to learn
• Showing flexibility in approach
• Experience in a
partnership or professional services environment with a finance
background
• Good written and verbal communication skills, able
to communicate at all levels, confident, professional telephone manner
• Analytical skills to resolve queries
Equal Opportunities
At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're
diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social
responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every
one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their
potential and thrive.
For further information about
CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please click here
to view the diversity pages on our website.
Please
apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you
have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of
benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our
website.
Please note that CMS have a preferred agency
panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the
point of instruction will be accepted.