Revenue Controller

We are looking for a dynamic professional to join our accounts team. This influential and high-profile role will be responsible for delivering financial and commercial support to the Group's legal units. Through effective business partnering, the role will continually improve service levels, cost effectiveness and add value to commercial activities undertaken.

Responsibilities:

• Business Partnering fee earning teams in the legal business to enhance profitability, improve working capital/lockup metrics and encourage good financial hygiene and compliance.
• Conduct monthly one-to-one WIP review meetings with Matter Managers to produce accurate billing estimates and monitor/refine these over time.
• Conduct regular matter maintenance procedures including timely closure of dormant matters, write offs, aged WIP and residual client balances.
• Review and reassign matters of leavers and inactive fee earners.
• Work with fee earners and business support to improve matter data quality.
• Share missing time analysis with unit heads to support improved and timely timesheet completion rates.
• Work with the wider finance team to continually develop and monitor KPIs and ensure that end users are focusing on the right metrics to drive sustainable profitable growth.
• Support fee earners and Credit Control team with debt ledger management.
• Develop strong relationships with key internal stakeholders across the business at all levels of seniority.
• Calculate and manage the financial risks and opportunities arising from volumetric and other contract mechanisms.
• Prepare monthly/quarterly progress reports to the Platform FD, Platform Head and Board and help to shape the strategy for the newly formed Revenue Controller function.
• Be first point of contact for financial queries from fee earners.

The Team:

Our highly skilled and diverse finance team is dedicated to delivering exceptional accounting services to our exciting and dynamic Professional Services Group. We offer a comprehensive range of services that cater to both legal and non-legal businesses within the Group. Our finance team is meticulously organised into several specialised functions, including Group Accounting, Legal Cashiering, Billing, Credit Management, and Purchasing. This role will sit within our Group Accounting function and will report directly into our Platform Finance Directors.

We pride ourselves on servicing our internal clients to the highest standards, consistently adding value by going above and beyond in our efforts. Our commitment to excellence and proactive approach ensures that we not only meet but exceed the expectations of our stakeholders, contributing to the overall success and growth of the Group.

The Person:

Candidates will be able to demonstrate the following attributes:

• Experience in a similar role in the legal sector.
• Clear evidence of Business Partnering with non-financial colleagues up to a senior level.
• Diligent individual, strong attention to detail/data integrity.
• Ability to manage multiple competing workstreams and work effectively in a deadline intensive environment.
• Intuitive individual capable of identifying and probing areas of value leakage.
• Be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and multi-tasking.
• Excellent communication skills - ability to communicate with senior stakeholders and leaders across multiple functions from primarily non-finance backgrounds.
• Results orientated, with ability to take decisions when necessary and the resilience to be challenged.
• A team player but with the ability to work on own initiative.

About Us:

With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around, our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus.

In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent).

Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.

Diversity, Inclusion and Well-being:

Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.

We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.

We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

Additional Information:

If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company, a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability, and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.