Billing Accountant / Credit Controller - Madrid - 6 Months FTC

The Role

As a critical part of our firm, you’ll collaborate with supportive and talented colleagues to successfully deliver our services and help us to continuously improve. You’ll apply your ambition and self-starting attitude to deliver exceptional outcomes that make a lasting impact on the firm.

The key purpose of this role is to support the firm with billing and Credit control, supporting the management of the billing and credit control function across Europe

Key Responsibilities

• Regular review of aged work in progress and meeting with designated partners
• Working with department heads to gather accurate monthly billing forecasts
• Prompt and accurate production of all bills submitted for processing
• Recommend and lead process improvements initiatives
• Provide technical guidance and support to team members as required
• Document internal controls and procedures
• Enforce and comply with the documented internal controls surrounding assigned billing/invoicing processes
• Act as primary billing/invoicing contact for both internal and external auditors
• Working knowledge of VAT
• Manage client queries on billing & usage within the required SLA’s, working with internal teams to reach a successful conclusion.
• Raise any issues that may affect billing with the Finance Manager
• Collaborating closely with the Europe billing teams to verify the correctness of monthly proformas.
• Contributing to the preparation of essential reports that provide valuable insights
• Generating detailed time and billing reports to aid in informed decision-making
• Create and provide accurate usage reports for clients using 3E reports
• Processing of all write offs of unbillable time
• Ensuring that all bills submitted for processing comply with all relevant VAT
• Ensuring that all bills are sent out as soon as possible after they have been processed
• Provide support to Finance Manager

Essential Skills & Experience

The successful applicant will:

• Have excellent proficiency in written and verbal English
• Ideally fully qualified with either one of these qualifications: ACA/ACCA/CTA or country equivalent.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Flexible and hands on attitude
• Strong communication skills with the ability to support partners and fee earners at all levels
• Ability to work autonomously
• Experience of working in a professional services environment is desired.
• Strong numeracy skills and a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong time management and organisational skills and the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Good interpersonal skills and be able to work in a team
• A solid understanding of electronic billing systems to streamline processes
• A proactive attitude and a collaborative approach to working within a high-performing team
• Able to remain calm, managing and prioritising your workload to complete time sensitive tasks
• Happy working as part of a team and taking responsibility for personal workload

The Firm

When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.

Our Commitment

Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity. Learn more about our interview process.

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This is the job description as constituted at present; however, Clyde & Co reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.