NLB Solutions are working with a business in Luton to recruit for a Billing Manager.  The role reports into a Finance Manager and the successful candidate will take responsibilities for a team. The role requires someone with previous experience in Billing and has strong management skills with a hands-on approach.

The company has relocated to newly furnished premises with free parking.  The role will report to the Finance Manager, previous experience in Billing and Team Management is essential and worked in a fast-paced environment. In return the company will offer a competitive salary, based in their offices full time.

Duties: 

• Management and Control of the Billing team
• Resolve revenue queries from leadership team and wider finance team at month end
• To ensure the month end procedures and deadlines are followed
• Improve revenue recognition procedures resulting in accurate reporting
• Liaising with commercial and account directors to ensure compliance of invoicing and revenue recognition requirements
• Calculation of client rebates and ensuring that appropriate provisions are in place
• Project work to improve current processes to ensure billing is accurate
• Monitor key deliverables including invoice submission timeframes, quality of billing data and level of credit notes
• Resolve revenue queries from leadership team and wider finance team at month end.
• Tasked with improving revenue recognition procedures for chargeable development work, resulting in better and accurate reporting and lowering risk of exposure.
• Defined and implemented new client on boarding procedure ensuring better adherence to billing requirements, including reviewing contracts for key information.
• Liaising with commercial and account directors to ensure compliance of invoicing and revenue recognition requirements.
• Working with clients and internal client managers to manage and resolve problematic debtors.
• Comparison of business cross charges and associated revenue.
• Calculation of client rebates and ensuring that appropriate provisions in place to cover.
• Point of contact for all client escalations.
• Review of process documents detailing specific billing procedures on an individual client basis.

Person Spec: 

• Minimum of three years recent experience in a supervisory/management role
• Previous worked in a similar role as a Billing Manager
• Excellent communication skills both in writing and verbally and at many different levels
• Analytical with high attention to detail
• Resilient and able to work in an organisation that is undergoing change due to development and growth.
• Demonstrates an “investigative” and “can do” approach and attitude to all tasks
• Computer literate with demonstrable ability in Microsoft packages and databases, (Word, Excel, Outlook)