Credit Controller

The role

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced 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.

This role reports into the Billing and Credit Control Manager and will involve working closely with the FP&A team.

Role responsibility

As a Finance Assistant you will be assigned a variety of tasks including the below;

• Implementing the Firm's new process for chasing debt over 6 months old
• Emailing statements to clients with debt over 6 months old 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 the debt to debt collection where necessary
• Providing regular reports and progress updates to Partners, fee earners and senior management on the firm's credit control and debt recovery performance
• Managing and reviewing exemptions from chasing

About you

Ideally you will be able to demonstrate;

• Previous experience in a similar credit control 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

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

We are a London based, full-service law firm, specialising in providing straightforward advice to entrepreneurial businesses and individuals on domestic and international matters.

We have grown substantially in recent years, including two mergers and an office move. We’ve also matured in terms of our approach to providing advice to our clients, seeking to simplify and improve the experience of working with a modern, independent law firm.

We’re proud of our journey. Without losing sight of where we’ve come from, we are focused on where we’re going. We are evolving and growing every day. And just like our clients, we are ambitious and moving forward. Many of our clients are entrepreneurial, ambitious enterprises who are often privately or family owned, or private equity backed. We are one of the only London based law firms with a large private wealth offering alongside significant business law capability.

The firm also advises major corporates on particular specialist legal matters who find our straightforward approach a compelling alternative to larger, less personal firms.