Job Description

About the role:

We’re excited to offer an opportunity for a Billing Administrator to join our Billing Team in Birmingham on a 12-month fixed term contract. In this role, you’ll be responsible for processing authorised billing instructions from our legal teams. This includes making edits and amendments within our Finance Practice Management System (Expert) to generate accurate client bills.

About you:

We are looking for someone with a strong understanding of billing across multiple currencies and jurisdictions, coupled with expertise in rates hierarchy structures within legal practice management systems, particularly Expert.

You will have a solid grasp of client and matter data, practice management processes, and the ability to produce and interpret practice management reports relating to matter financials. Knowledge of VAT and SRA requirements, including relevant practice notes, is essential to ensure billing compliance.

You should also understand the transaction process for converting WIP into bills, as well as e-billing, including phases and tasks, and the role the billing team plays in supporting these processes.

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 25 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Free private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at meg.astley@gowlingwlg.com

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