Billing Supervisor

Norton Rose LLP; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international law firm in Cheltenham seeks an experienced legal biller for a fixed-term contract covering maternity leave. This role involves processing legal bills, training team members, and handling billing-related queries. Candidates should have experience in a UK law firm and a thorough understanding of financial knowledge related to VAT and disbursements. The position offers a hybrid working model and an attractive remuneration package.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus birthdays off

Private medical insurance

Permanent health insurance

Parking for Cheltenham office

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a billing role in a UK law firm is essential.
• Thorough working knowledge of Solicitors Accounts Rules.
• Great people skills to support and develop colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Produce and prepare pre-bills within strict SLA timelines.
• Attend billing meetings with partners and revenue controllers.
• Respond to all billing-related queries promptly.

Skills

Billing knowledge in a UK law firm

Understanding of VAT and disbursements

People management skills

Tools

Aderant software

Job description

Full time. Fixed term (over 1 year). Based Cheltenham or London(Hybrid - 3 days in office).

About the role

To cover for a period of maternity leave commencing next spring, weare looking for a experienced legal biller to join our Billing Team onan interim basis. We would like this role to have a comfortablehandover at the start and end, so we are looking for someone to joinin January or February. The contract is likely to last at least 14 months.

This is primarily an operational role and you will be expected toprocess legal bills alongside the other 4 team members. As a supervisor you will not be a formal line manager, but you will alsohave responsibilities to train, develop and oversee the work of yourteam members, acting as a sounding board and escalation point whereneeded as a subject matter expert . As such this is a greatopportunity for an experienced and technically strong legal billerlooking to develop their people management skills.

Your billing duties will include:

• Producing and preparing pre-bills within strict SLA timelines,liaising with internal stakeholders where necessary
• Attending billing meetings with the partners and revenuecontrollers, where appropriate, to take instruction and prepareinvoices (using our Aderant software) for review by partners
• Responding to all billing related queries promptly
• Ensuring bills are finalised and despatched to the partner and PA promptly
• Escalating issues to and seeking authorisation from the RevenueManager as appropriate
• Raising credit notes and writing off WIP and disbursements inaccordance with our policies
• Client and matter data management relating to rates and discounts,recorded time etc.
• Supporting the wider Revenue Team with ad-hoc requests

About you

Experience of working in a billing role in a UK law firm is anessential requirement for this role as you need not only generalfinancial knowledge relating to VAT and disbursements etc, it is alsoessential that you have a thorough working knowledge and experience ofapplying the Solicitors Accounts Rules.

You will also need great people skills, both to help support anddevelop your colleagues and to be able to adapt your style to theneeds and expectations of different partners.

Our Culture

Our culture is unique among law firms - both in what we expect fromour people and the way we create value in the industries we serve. Weempower our people, expect commitment and excellence, and celebratewhen we achieve it.

Our values are at the heart of everything that we do and defineWiggin as a workplace: being visionary, authentic, unified,responsible and excellent across-the-board.

There isn't a typical Wiggin person. We aim to build teams that arediverse in thought, perspective and experience to provide a morerounded service to our internal and external clients.

We operate a discretionary hybrid working model allowing 2 days perweek working from home. We offer an attractive remuneration packageincluding 25 days holiday (plus birthdays off), private medicalinsurance, permanent health insurance, parking for our Cheltenhamoffice and more from your first day of employment.