Revenue Controller

**Revenue Controller**

**Firm Summary**
- White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.

With lawyers and staff operating from more than 47 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.

It’s not just about our global network of offices and shared services centers; it’s the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It’s one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work. And why we attract a diverse group of people.

Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative and committed to excellence. Diversity is a core value of our Firm and it has been recognized with numerous awards and top rankings around the world. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages.

**Position Summary**

Responsible for revenue and credit control for a specified group of partners in the London office, as well as for a small number of key clients globally. The role will also involve liaison with Finance teams in other offices to support the firm in achieving its global targets and will report to the EMEA Revenue Manager.

**Our Functional Area**
- The Global Finance team is led by the Firm’s CFO, Steve Wrede, and is made up of approximately 280 team members around the world. Committed to our 2020 strategy for profitable growth, our core functions include billing and collecting Firm invoices, statutory accounting for the Firm and for individual offices, creating and distributing management reports, processing payments to vendors or reimbursements to employees and managing payroll for our people. Together, we work seamlessly across our network of offices and countries where we operate. Ours is a multicultural, diverse and supportive team, where everyone’s contribution is welcome and where we share a mutual ambition to achieve our goals and take the Firm from strength to strength.
- Our team’s remit includes partner compensation and the maintenance of partner equity accounts; strategic procurement of vendor services; global tax strategies; inventory management, and finally analysis of the profitability of clients, matters and groups of timekeeper. We work with partners and with other business services groups to establish hourly billing rates as well as client-specific fee arrangements. Our Treasury team is responsible for global cash management, foreign currencies and hedging.
- In consultation with Firm leaders, we set annual global revenue and expense budgets across Regional Sections and offices, including legal and business service departments. The team continuously reviews expenditures throughout the year to ensure that the Firm’s resources are being used efficiently.

**Duties and Accountabilities**1**
- Responsible for meeting with partners and matter managers on a regular basis to review and discuss all WIP and AR balances, documenting outcomes and following up on agreed actions.
- Drafting and engrossing invoices ensuring that they are compliant with firm policy and regulatory requirements. Ensuring signed copies are filed against the matter on 3e.
- Regularly reviewing all WIP balances to ensure that all appropriate actions are undertaken to ensure it can be billed on a timely basis, including regular fee updates.
- Regular review of all aged A/R balances, preparing and agreeing action plans to aid in timely collection. Updating billing and collections tools with discussions and actions taken.
- Assisting with collections of all accounts receivable for designated partners. Utilizing central credit control where necessary.
- Preparation of monthly and quarterly cash collection and billing forecasts for agreed partners in discussion with Finance management and Regional Section Heads.
- Supporting the firm’s key client program for a designated number of clients by: acting as a central point of contact for billing and collection matters; providing regular reporting on financials to Client Accounts Managers and Lead relationship partners; working with Client Accounts Managers to ensure that global fee arrangements are correctly implemented and followed.
- Working with PAs, Revenue Assistants and operations team in Manila to ensure that billing matters are dealt with on a timely basis.
- Liaising with other EMEA office finance teams to support revenue and credit control across the region.
- Maintaining a continuous open dialog with the partners and clients.
- Consulting with managers / billing partner