Credit Controller - Career Legal : Job Details

Our client is one of the largest law firms in the world whose legal specialists operate in a multitude of sectors, including financial institutions, energy and natural resources, food and transport.

They have offices across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia with four main practice groups: Company Commercial, Human Resources, Litigation & Dispute Management and Real Estate.

They offer a great benefits package which includes Group Personal Pension Scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance, on-site doctor, subsidised gym membership and generous holiday entitlement.

They are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our busy credit control team. Credit control is an important function for this firm, the team maximise client turnover and minimise bad debts for the firm globally. The Credit Control role is pivotal to ensuring this is undertaken efficiently and professionally.

Responsibilities

• The role will encompass taking ownership for a ledger within one of our busy practice groups, dealing with complex clients working with the team using various tools available to ensure invoices are settled in a timely manner. You will be liaising with external clients, Partners and legal teams within the firm mainly using the phone and email and will be the initial point of contact for any invoice queries raised. You will be expected to lead on invoice query resolution, making recommendations for process change and supporting this transition. You will also be expected to support team members with challenging demands, assisting with strict deadlines and deliverables and be comfortable thinking outside the box.

Candidate Profile

• Ideally you will have gained two to three years’ experience working within a credit control role, ideally within a law firm or a fast paced industry environment and you will be able to demonstrate working with high value, high invoice volume clients. You will be a self-motivated individual and have the ability to work on your initiative.

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 vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.