Job Description

PurposeTo liaise with fee earners, matter managers, secretaries and local finance team to process billing and matters management instructionsKey Dimensions
Works within the Asia Revenue team primarily to provide billing transaction processing services to all Asian offices and Middle East offices (Including Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Bangkok, Seoul, Jakarta, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia).Key responsibilities and challenges

• Process billing requests, draft and final bills.
• Liaise with fee earners and matter managers to process matter management instructions such as time and costs transfer, write-offs and matter closing.
• Responsible for initiating finance WIP management actions such as rates setting, cap fees warning, fee statements and chasing outstanding time sheets for billing purpose, etc.
• Compliance such as - ASR is applied to clients per clientsxe2x80x99 fee deal, CSI is provided before billings, expense policy, etc. WIP and debt write off policy
• Liaise with London ebilling team for clientxe2x80x99s ebilling rule and submission. To submit invoice when billing to e-invoicing clients.
• Process debtorsxe2x80x99 management instructions such as - aged debtor listing to matter managers and write off instructions.
• Liaise or coordinate with fee earners on clientxe2x80x99s money treatment. Remain compliant with SRA accounting rules. Follow up on outstanding clientsxe2x80x99 money with fee earners and local finance.
• Collection management, interaction with WSSC team such as - checking receipt posting in SAP, collection report, and answering queries for any unidentified incoming fund or unknown receipt. Sending email notifications to matter partners, matter managers and secretaries for clientxe2x80x99s settlement.
• Act as single point of contact of all Matter Management processes/ queries for allocated practice groups.
• Allens alliance, ensure invoices are recorded to the matter in the appropriate manner and fee sharing calculation.
• To liaise with London PI when having system issue, new tool implementation, best practice, etc.
• Ad hoc projects.

Technical Skills:This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

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