Billing Manager (Legal Aid) - #2194952

Your new company
An established and growing law firm is looking to appoint an experienced Billing Manager to lead its billing function. This is a key position within the finance team, working closely with senior finance leadership and taking ownership of a busy billing operation covering Legal Aid, Legal Help, Inter Partes and private billing.

Your new role
As Billing Manager, you will lead a team of six and take responsibility for the end-to-end billing process, ensuring billing is completed accurately, efficiently and within agreed deadlines. You will oversee Legal Aid, Legal Help, Inter Partes and private billing, while driving WIP recovery and improving the conversion of WIP into billed fees and cash.
You will also:

• Manage, support and develop the billing team
• Monitor WIP, billing performance and key targets
• Work closely with finance leadership to improve billing performance
• Provide guidance across the firm on billing processes and queries
• Identify and implement process improvements
• Maintain strong financial controls and ensure billing procedures are audit ready
• Ensure high service standards and strict month-end and year-end deadlines are met

What you'll need to succeed
You will need a minimum of five years' legal billing experience alongside previous team management experience. Crucially, you must have hands-on experience across Legal Aid billing, Legal Help and Inter Partes billing. You will have strong knowledge of legal billing processes, WIP and ledger reconciliation, combined with the leadership skills to manage an established team. Knowledge of VAT, SRA Accounts Rules and GDPR is also required, while experience using Proclaim would be advantageous.


What you'll get in return

• The opportunity to take ownership of an established legal billing function
• Management responsibility for a team of six
• A varied billing environment spanning Legal Aid, Legal Help, Inter Partes and private billing
• Direct exposure to senior finance leadership
• The opportunity to drive process improvements and billing efficiencies
• Salary dependent on experience

What you need to do now
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