Billing Assistant

Description

Billing Assistant – 12 Months FTC

Location: Liverpool
Position: 12 months Fixed Term
Hours: 35 hours per week Monday – Friday 9am-5pm, with 1 unpaid hour for lunch
Type: Hybrid – 3 days a week in the office Wednesday to Friday until end of January, then 1 day a week

To work within the Liverpool billing team ensuring that bills are generated promptly in line with client guidelines.

To play an active role in the production and despatch of individual bills and investigate reasons for bill discrepancies and take such steps to reduce the cause of such errors. To liaise with fee earners and other members of Keoghs staff, ensuring that all responsible tasks are conducted in as efficient and accurate manner as possible.

Key Accountabilities

• To raise fixed fee and final bills in accordance with the client guidelines and instructions from fee earners
• To despatch bills promptly via the correct process and in line with the relevant guidelines
• To prepare and despatch client Bordereaux reports as required liaising with other departments to ensure the information contained is accurate
• To process and review bills via electronic billing processes
• Control the advance billing for a number of clients
• Collate disbursement vouchers with bills before sending to clients as necessary
• Deal with various queries from fee earners and other members of Keoghs staff
• Assisting in the implementation of controls to improve accuracy of all billing processes
• To carry out other general duties as requested by the Billing Controller to ensure that Finance Department objectives are being met

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

• IT literate, the candidate should have a good understanding of using Excel and other Microsoft Office applications
• Ability to deal with complex pricing within a computerised system
• Good numeracy skills, confident with numbers and able to balance and reconcile figures
• Ability to work to tight timescales to ensure all tasks are completed in a timely manner
• Ability to communicate effectively with other Keoghs staff members at varying levels (fee earners and partners etc)
• Well organised with the ability to prioritise
• 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

Benefits

• 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

About Keoghs

Keoghs is a leading provider of legal and claims solutions to insurers, businesses and other suppliers to the insurance sector. We manage more than £1bn worth of insurer claims and resolve in excess of 100,000 claims per year working in partnership with leading insurers, MGAs, brokers, corporates and the public sector.

With more than 50 years\’ experience we have an in-depth understanding of the insurance claims process, enabling us to contain and lower litigation rates, shorten claims lifecycles and reduce overall claims costs. We combine proven processes, technology and low cost infrastructure with extensive legal and insurance market knowledge. This enables us to create individual solutions for each of our clients that match their requirements in terms of quality, performance and value for money.

We invest heavily in specialised services, technology and innovation for our insurance clients, and we are the first to launch a true artificial intelligence (AI) insurance lawyer. Through our proprietary AI lawyer, Lauri, we\’ve transformed the claims handling process for low-value personal injury claims; we\’ve reduced claim lifecycles and reduced costs for our clients. Supported by commercial acumen and innovative products, Keoghs leads the way in providing legal solutions to the insurance industry.