Legal Biller - Kennedys Law : Job Details

Kennedys is looking for a Legal Biller to join our Financial Operations team in Chelmsford. The successful Legal Biller will work as part of the Working Capital team, alongside the Cashiering and Finance Database teams, to provide a proactive billing and support service to the firm including revenue assistance, bill production and dispatch.

Team

Kennedys Finance team support the firm globally producing timely and accurate financial and management information, reporting solutions and operational support to maintain the high standard of service offered to the firm's internal and external clients.

Our Finance team is made up of Financial Control, Financial Planning and Reporting, Management Accountants, Working Capital, Legal Cashiers and Financial Operations Database teams.

Our UK Finance team is based in Chelmsford and London and have a presence in eight global offices.

Key responsibilities

• Build and develop relationships with key stakeholders within the firm
• Responsible for the billing cycle of a number of fee earning teams
• Organise and attend regular meetings with fee earners and partners to discuss aged WIP and billing proposals
• Ensure that fee earners are fully compliant with comprehensive time recording policies and register all disbursements to ensure accurate defence costs MI
• Check charge rates and ensure compliance with client service level agreements (SLAs)
• Liaise with the Financial Operations Database team to ensure the account system contains complete, up-to-date billing information in line with current SLAs

Required experience

• Previous legal billing experience
• In-depth knowledge of VAT
• Experience in Excel and finance systems.
• Elite 3E experience preferred but not essential

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.