Billing Specialist - French Speaking (9 Month Maternity cover)

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Job Title: Billing Specialist - French Speaking (9 Month Maternity cover)

Location: UK (Hybrid)

The base salary for this position starts from 28 050,00 GBP annual gross annually

About the role:

We are growing our Finance Team and have a fantastic opportunity for a French speaking Billing Specialist to join us initially on a 9 month fixed term contract. This is a dynamic role where you’ll support the billing activities and inquiries for our French office.

The ideal candidate will have worked within a fast-paced finance team with prior billing experience as you’ll be responsible for producing accurate and timely customer billing. You’ll also have exceptional customer service skills as you’ll be handling invoice queries and credit notes to ensure that revenue and debtors are accurately recorded.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with other areas of the business to ensure that billing requirements are accurately and promptly communicated.
• Logging and distributing queries to the correct area of BSI and following up as necessary to enable a speedy resolution to clients’ queries.
• Issuing pro rata and yearly AMF invoices and supporting incoming queries.
• Dealing with day-to-day correspondence from clients, ensuring prompt responses.
• To work as part of the billing team to ensure that all documents are raised promptly and accurately, and in accordance with the internal SLA’s.

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• Previous experience within a Billing or similar finance role.
• Fluent in French.
• Experience with manual billing processes.
• Proven ability to deliver a high standard of customer service in a high-volume operating business.
• Good numerical skills and experience of using Excel with the confidence to make tables and understand them.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• An aptitude to understand and assist with accounting entries.
• Ability to respond to queries politely and promptly, dealing effectively with challenging situations.
• Proactive and organised mindset in ensuring that billing is accurate to minimise queries or errors.

BSI offers a competitive total reward package, an independent and varied job in an international environment, flexible working hours, and ongoing training and development as well as 27-days annual leave, paid sick leave, bank holidays, health insurance, life insurance, pension plan with company contribution, income protection, paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave, parental leave, adoption leave, compassionate leave, paid bereavement leave, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.

*Please note: BSI are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this vacancy

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