Billing Assistant
Department: Administration
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Bolton
Description
Billing Assistant
Location: Bolton
Hours: 35 hours per week Monday – Friday 9am-5pm, with 1 unpaid hour for lunch
Type: Office Based during probation period, then after this 1 day a week in the office
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.
* 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
*after successfully completing probation
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