Accounts Assistant- Billing Team; FTC

Accounts Assistant
- Billing Team (4 month FTC)

Reference AABSWPB

Location Peterborough

This Accounts Assistant role involves providing a high-quality service to the firm by working with the Senior Biller and billing team, to ensure accurate invoices are issued to customers/clients.

This role involves but is not limited to:

• Working with Fee Earners and other members of the business to provide a first-class billing service for the firm.
• Drafting bills and approving bills
• Producing credit notes
• Ensuring any agreed client fee arrangements or billing deadlines are complied with
• Ensuring compliance with SAR and VAT rules
• Time and disbursement write offs
• Dealing with requests and queries sent to the Billing team in a timely and efficient manner
• Providing WIP reports and liaising with Fee Earners to maximise their billing revenue
• Collaboration with the wider Finance team
• Ensure all financial data is accurately captured in the financial systems
• Generate ad hoc reports as required

Qualifications and Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to pick up new systems quickly
• Experience working in a Finance/Accounts department
• Ability to work well independently and as part of a team providing support to others
• Ability to operate in a professional, calm and friendly manner
• Self‑motivated
• High levels of attention to detail

This job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

Company Core Values:

• Aspire: To challenge convention, an entrepreneur with energy for change. To be the best that we can be
• Integrate: Bring together people and systems into a cohesive force
• Innovate: To creatively evolve our working practices, use our revenue and resources in a virtuous cycle of improving our people, systems and growth
• Commit: To delivering excellent client experience and working with integrity, investing in long term relationships, creating a strong market position and delivering sustained commercial advantage

This organisation strives to operate a policy of equal opportunity and to not discriminate against any person because of sex, race, colour or national origin.