Credit Controller (12 months fixed term contract)

The role

This is an excellent opportunity for a Credit Controller to join us, working closely with our fee earners and Partners and wider finance team in managing the firm's accounts receivable and ensuring that outstanding debts are collected in a timely and efficient manner.

Role responsibility

As a Credit Controller you will be assigned a variety of tasks including the below;

• Implementing the Firm's new process for chasing debt between 30 – 60 days for Corporate, Dispute Resolution and Private Client and escalating any clients with concerns
• Assisting with chasing debts over 60 days old
• Emailing statements to clients and dealing with any follow up actions
• Liaising internally and with clients to resolve any outstanding payment issues, ensuring that all queries are dealt with in a timely and professional manner
• Updating ARCS with the status of debt collection
• Applying interest on the debt where necessary
• Drafting pre application protocol letters and sending to clients
• Referring debts to debt collection where necessary
• Monitoring clients on payment plans
• Assisting/preparing reporting progress updates to Partners, fee earners and senior management on the firm's credit control and debt recovery performance

About you

Ideally you will be able to demonstrate;

• Previous experience in a similar role within a legal or professional services environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• The ability to organise and prioritise your own workload, managing multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously
• A strong understanding of financial processes and familiarity with accounting systems (including 3E and ARCS)
• Confidence in working with fee earners and Partners
• An ability to build strong relationships in the team and across the firm

Please note that we are not accepting applications via agencies for this role at this time. Before sharing any named candidate CVs, please contact your recruitment representative. If any named CVs are sent from agencies without approval from our recruitment team, they will not be deemed valid introductions, and no agency fee will be paid.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual holiday
• Permanent Health Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Interest free Season Ticket Loan
• Private Healthcare
• Pension Scheme
• Staff Introductory Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

About us

With almost 200 lawyers in one location, we ensure our clients have the right team to help them get from where they are to where they want to be. We advise major corporates and institutions as well as entrepreneurial, ambitious enterprises which are often privately or family owned, or private equity backed. As well as our significant business law capability, we are one of only a few London-based law firms with a large private wealth offering. Our clients find our straightforward approach a compelling alternative to larger, less personal firms.

Whether you are an ambitious and talented individual wanting to hit the ground running from day one, or an established professional looking for a new opportunity, Howard Kennedy is the firm where you can really make it happen.

We have earned a strong reputation for our exceptional and uniquely talented people who between them deliver outstanding results for clients. In a firm of our size, our strong team dynamic creates a thriving culture of creativity and entrepreneurialism. Howard Kennedy is a pragmatic and non-hierarchical environment where success is shared, and you are proactively encouraged to thrive at your own pace.

Our distinctive culture is built on fairness and respect. Guided by the firm’s values of talk straight, think smart and be yourself, everyone in the firm holds equal value, and everyone plays their role in supporting, encouraging and inspiring colleagues to do their best work.

At the same time, we recognise and reward individualism, celebrating the diversity of our people and supporting them to grow their practice and drive their own career advancement.

As well as client work, there is opportunity to broaden your horizons at the firm with fulfilling pro bono and charity projects. We have a regular social calendar full of wellbeing activities, charitable and social events too.