Billing Supervisor

BILLING SUPERVISOR
- 492767
- Melbourne
- Finance
- Full time

**Join Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Australia's leading independent law firm.**

The primary purpose of this role is to oversee and manage the daily operations of the National Billing Team. This role will also contribute towards the quality of the firm's billing process including timeliness, accuracy of data and general support of high quality matter management.

In supporting the National Billings Team Leader with billing and client related services, this role is also responsible for providing efficient and accurate support on a wide range of quality control, problem solving, processing & reporting functions within the Billings team.

**At Corrs, we help you achieve your ambition - at every stage of your career.**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Working with Partners and Legal Assistants to ensure the timely completion of the monthly billing process, monitoring and ensuring accuracy.
- Manage the operations of the Billing Team, providing leadership and guidance in relation to management and understanding of WIP across the firm.
- Assist with managing the efficient close of the monthly billing cycle and post month-end deliverables.
- Monitoring and keeping an accurate record of Partner's monthly billing intentions and ensuring billing deadlines are met for all WIP and un-billed disbursements.
- Management of matter maintenance including the creation of new matter openings, rate sets and other system inputs ensuring client details are aligned with their specific requirements.
- Assist with the preparation of monthly and quarterly client reporting and dealing with other adhoc queries from internal stakeholders in a timely matter.
- Liaising alongside the credit team in order to provide guidance on collection of bills, resolving discrepancies and bill adjustments.
- Assist in managing billing related corrections and queries, write-offs, time entry adjustments/transfers, bill reversals and posting bills.
- Upskilling and training Legal Assistants on all billings related matters including reporting as necessary.
- Manage compliance with all trust accounting and controlled monies procedures. Also assisting with trust account audits.

**Qualifications and experience**
- A minimum of 2+ year's employment experience in a similar commercial environment with the ability to learn rapidly.
- Legal industry experience or exposure to time billing based organisation desirable.
- Credit experience highly regarded.
- Experience in CMS or similar large scale Practice Management System

**About us**:
Corrs Chambers Westgarth is Australia's leading independent law firm. We provide exceptional legal services across the full spectrum of matters, including major transactions, projects and significant disputes, offering strategic advice on our clients' most challenging issues.

**Why Corrs?**
We pride ourselves on meeting our clients needs in a culture characterised by excellence, commitment, collaboration and respect. Our policies, practices and behaviours foster a safe and inclusive workplace, and we focus on creating opportunities and supporting a diverse workforce.
- **Flexible working as standard** - we've established flexibility as standard business practice and an option for all our people.
- **Bonus leave** - an additional week of leave each year (5 weeks annual leave in total).
- **Wellbeing program** -we support the wellbeing of our people across areas including resilience, mental health, mindfulness, personal development, physical health and self-care.
- **Diversity and Inclusion** - this is a key area of focus for the firm. We set meaningful goals to improve diversity and an inclusive culture in which all employees feel supported and valued.
- **Responsible business approach** - we are a member of the United Nations Global Compact, and are committed to promoting and respecting human rights, supporting the Compact's Ten Principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. We are also a member of AusLSA, which works to promote and increase sustainable practices across the legal sector.
- **Learning and development opportunities** - including our Australian-first international study scholarship, our national training program and our mentoring program.

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