About this role
Billing Assistant - 9 Months FTC
Department: Administration
Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time
Location: Bolton
Description
To work within the Billing Team and ensure bills are raised promptly and in line with our client guidelines. To ensure that a timely and accurate service is provided at all times to both internal and external customers.Key Accountabilities
- Despatch of bills to our clients using various methods, email, post, client portals and bordereaux report and dealing with any queries arising from this in a timely manner.
- Processing bills – drafting and checking for errors and ensuring that bills are generated in line with client guidelines.
- Assisting with Bolton billing queries and final bill inboxes when required and ensuring bills are raised in accordance with client guidelines and instructions from fee earners.
- Deal with various queries from the fee earners and other Keoghs staff.
- Dealing with bill reversals and investigate reasons for bill discrepancies and take steps to reduce errors.
- Triggering and manually raising bills in accordance with the client guidelines.
- Updating bill distribution list and ensuring our records are accurate.
- Liaison with our fee earning community and other members of Keoghs staff, ensuring all tasks are carried out effectively and to a high standard.
- Providing cover for the absence of other team members
- Carrying out other general duties as requested by the Billing Team Leader to ensure that Finance Department objectives are being met
Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- Being able to work in a high-volume environment.
- IT literate, the candidate should have a very good understanding of using spreadsheets and other Microsoft Office applications and have good numeracy skills
- Excellent attention to detail when transferring and inputting data.
- Ability to communicate effectively with other Keoghs staff members at varying levels (fee earners and partners etc) and external client contacts.
- To take an active role within the Finance department and display excellent team working skills
- To be flexible in order to proactively assist in the general day to day duties of the finance department
Benefits
- Davies Incentive Plan
- 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)
- Simply Health Care Cash Plan
- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing
- Death In Service – after 1 years’ service
- Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
- Employee Resource Groups
- Employee Volunteering Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme*
- Tech Scheme*
- Season Ticket Loan*
- Gym Flex*
- Access to Online Discount Sites
- Discounted Gourmet Society Membership
- Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide
- Discounts at local retail outlets