Revenue Controller

• Locations 30 Crown Place, London, EC2A 4ES, GB
• Job Schedule Full time

Job Description

Revenue Controller - 12 month fixed term contract

Location: London (with travel to other offices as required)
Team: Revenue Control, Finance
Contract: Full-time
Reports to: Group Revenue Manager

About the Role

Pinsent Masons is seeking a Revenue Controller to join our London-based Revenue Control team. While the role is primarily London focused, we welcome applications from candidates in other UK locations who are willing to travel.

In this key position, you will support partners, lawyers and colleagues across the firm in delivering first rate revenue management. Working closely with the Group Revenue Manager and the wider working capital management teams, you will play a vital part in effectively managing the working capital cycle-particularly focusing on work in progress (WIP) management, billing efficiency and compliance with firmwide financial policies.

Key Responsibilities

As a Revenue Controller, you will:

• Schedule regular partner meetings to drive effective WIP management and ensure revenue targets are achieved
• Review WIP balances with partners and lawyers, identifying issues and working with the Revenue Manager to resolve them
• Proactively manage aged WIP over six months old, including write downs in line with firm policy
• Oversee unbilled disbursements and manage the disbursement provision process
• Act as the primary expert for Aderant billing and iTimekeep within your practice group
• Take ownership of financial management on key and complex matters, including multi client or multi jurisdictional matters
• Support the billing team during month end and peak periods
• Prepare fee forecasts and ad hoc financial reports for internal stakeholders and clients
• Identify opportunities to improve working capital performance across the firm

About You Our ideal candidate will have the following experience

• A strong understanding of the full revenue cycle within a law firm
• Experience preparing complex billing or matter related finance information
• Experience with BI tools beneficial but not required
• Strong knowledge of the Solicitors Accounts Rules and VAT compliance
• Highly proactive approach to WIP and working capital management

About the Business

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We're naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We'll truly value your ideas. You'll be joining an award winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you'll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You'll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.