Billing Supervisor

Do you see yourself leading a team that drives innovation, accuracy, and client service? This is your opportunity to shape the future of billing at Burges Salmon.

We're looking for a motivated and experienced Billing professional/Team Leader to join our Finance Team. Sitting at the heart of our billing operations, you will lead a high-performing team that bridges the gap between our central finance function and legal teams - ensuring a “right first time” billing experience for our clients.

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape and improve billing processes, support strategic financial goals, and play a key role in developing both our people and systems.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and inspire the Billing Team, managing workloads, performance, and development.
• Own the billing cycle across the firm, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery.
• Collaborate with Revenue Control, FP&A, and legal teams to support complex billing needs.
• Manage the charge rates, including annual reviews and ad hoc requests.
• Act as a key escalation point, providing expert advice on billing and VAT queries.
• Drive continuous improvement, identifying opportunities to streamline and automate processes.
• Support system enhancements, including testing and training for billing-related tools.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience in billing, ideally within a legal or professional services environment.
• Strong leadership skills with a passion for developing others.
• Excellent attention to detail and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset.
• A strong track record of working with stakeholders at all levels and across departments.
• A collaborative approach and a strong sense of duty to delivering high-quality service.

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of SRA Accounts Rules, HMRC VAT legislation, and AML requirements.
• Experience with Aderant or similar practice management systems.
• Advanced Excel skills (e.g., VLOOKUP, pivot tables, SUMIFs).
• Experience in billing best practice design or implementation.

About Burges Salmon

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the ‘working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are pleased to have been named RollOnFriday's ‘Best Law Firm to Work At', for the fourth  year in a row and one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 (previously named ‘The Times Top 50 Employers for Women'), for the third year running. Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We're committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

Interested in applying or want to learn more?

The full job description is linked below. 

If you have any questions regarding the role or the interview process, please contact Ayesha Arshad (Resourcing Specialist) at [email protected] or call on 0117 307 6807.

Closing date for application will be Thursday 19th June.

We encourage early applications, as we may close the vacancy ahead of the advertised closing date if we receive sufficient interest.

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