Revenue Manager in London - Career Legal

My client is a global law firm with offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Their client base reads like a ‘whose who’ - they include public and privately held commercial companies and financial institutions and national governments.

The firm is now looking to hire a Revenue Manager.

Responsibilities

The EMEA Revenue Manager has complete responsibility for the effectiveness of the Firm’s billing and collections for their specific practice groups, across 10+ offices in EMEA, ranging from London to Russia to the Middle East and to South Africa. In this role they will work directly with: Partners and other lawyers, EMEA revenue controllers, Manila billing team, Senior members of EMEA Revenue team.

Achieving specific targets such as:

• Monthly billing/collections
• Ageing targets
• Lock-up period reduction goals
• Managing all phases of the inventory cycle
• Overseeing WIP and AR across all EMEA sections and offices and provide regular reports on the same
• Target setting & billing/collection drive management
• Working closely with partners and local Finance managers in region to deliver results
• Monitoring inventory levels and related exposure on fixed/capped fee matters
• Monitoring exposures to clients and recommending appropriate actions
• Supporting and preparing Regional Section Heads for quarterly Executive Committee meetings by providing various detailed information and reporting and forecasting / analysis on Section performance to date against prior year and against budget
• Working with the Firm’s Global Finance team to help deliver the effective implementation of a Firmwide inventory management system.

Candidate Profile

• Experience of having led a revenue/credit control function before
• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills, ability to work effectively at all levels within an organization.
• Relevant and in-depth revenue control experience.
• Law firm experience with knowledge of SAR and VAT preferred but not essential.
• Have the ability to inspire trust and confidence from both internal and external clients, especially partners
• Computer literate including at least an intermediate knowledge of Word and Excel.
• Strong numerical skills including the ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages.
• Experience in using Elite, 3E, Aderant or similar PMS system.

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanent vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.