Billing Assistant
 
Location: Bolton
Hours: 35 hours per week Monday – Friday 9am-5pm, with 1 unpaid hour for lunch
Type: Office Based during training period, then 2 days a week in the office after this

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.

• 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 in the office – 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.

• 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.

• 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