Finance Assistant
Full Time
Job Description
- Collate bills to dispatch reports from various systems, separating centrally managed from business dispatched
- Co-ordinate with Secretarial leads to agree available resources
- Allocate work to resources available
- Monitoring progress daily and update lists as required
- Provide regular updates to key stakeholders on progress
- Escalate any issues preventing prompt dispatch
- Collaborate with secretarial teams to progress business dispatched teams / collate reasons for delays for 360 learning
- Follow up with secretaries re missing payor contact details for centrally managed matters
- Production of monthly bill dispatch metrics / performance
- Provide recommendations
- Track any exceptions to process through to delivery
- Follow up with finance colleagues & lawyers for missing data as required
- Aid in producing documented summary of individual client processes
- Obtain supporting copies (e.g. disbursements) required for specific client billing
- Support the core team during busy periods (month ends) and absences
- Deal with routine queries related to month end billing
- Raise bills / credit notes
- Assist in managing the teams work list
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Experience in either a finance based role in a professional services firm or exposure to finance & billing processes
- Some exposure to legal billing and prebills would be an advantage
- Experience of using Microsoft Excel, including vlookups & formulas an advantage
- Confident manner with people at all levels
- Ability to be pro-active
- Flexible
- Ability to priorities and meet deadlines
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to work unsupervised and on one's own initiative
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Highly PC literate with strong systems skills
Reference no: 89780