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This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a friendly, flexible and collaborative team that plays an essential role in the day-to-day financial operations of the firm.\nWorking closely with colleagues across Finance and the wider business, you’ll take responsibility for supporting effective credit control processes, maintaining strong customer relationships and helping to ensure the smooth management of outstanding accounts.\nThis is a supervisory-level role, where you’ll provide support and guidance to colleagues and contribute to the continued development of the credit control function. With the firm continuing to grow, there is also excellent potential for progression and career development for the right candidate.\nDay to day, you can expect your responsibilities to include:\nManaging and recovering a portfolio of high-value, complex and aged debt, proactively pursuing outstanding invoices by telephone, email and written correspondence\nDeveloping and implementing tailored collection strategies, negotiating payment arrangements and escalating challenging accounts where appropriate\nManaging team performance and ensuring targets are being it, providing support and guidance to ensure effective collection activity\nBuilding strong working relationships with Partners, Legal Directors, Fee Earners, support staff and clients, using effective communication and influencing skills to resolve billing and payment issues\nMaintaining accurate and comprehensive debtor records within ARCS, Lawman and other relevant finance systems, ensuring all collection activity and recovery plans are fully documented\nInvestigating and resolving invoice, billing and payment queries, working collaboratively with fee earners and clients to remove barriers to payment and ensure invoices are accurate and appropriately supported\nMonitoring high-risk accounts and potential bad debt exposure, considering appropriate bad debt provisions and providing regular updates on collection activity and debtor performance\nIdentifying opportunities to improve credit control processes and reduce debtor days, supporting the implementation and testing of system and process improvements while working towards agreed cash collection and aged debt targets\nWhilst this role is based in Bristol there will be occasional travel requirements to our other offices.\nAbout you\nWe’re extremely proud of the relationship we’ve built with our clients and referrers, being recognised as their trusted legal partner.\nYour ability to communicate clearly and collaborate with our fee-earning teams will play a key role in delivering exceptional client service and driving successful outcomes:\nSignificant experience in credit control, ideally within a legal or professional services environment, with strong knowledge of credit control procedures and debt collection techniques\nPrevious supervisory experience within a credit control team is desirable, or demonstrable readiness to progress into a supervisory role\nProven experience managing complex debtor portfolios and aged debt recovery, including the successful collection of both high-value debts and smaller balances\nStrong negotiation, influencing and relationship-building skills, with the ability to build credibility and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, clients, companies and private individuals\nExcellent IT skills, with experience using finance systems; knowledge of ARCS and Lawman, legal billing processes, Solicitors’ Accounts Rules and WIP-to-cash processes would be advantageous\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to adapt your approach and communication style depending on the audience, combined with a professional, confident and results-focused approach\nWhat’s on offer\nBy joining Thrings you’ll become part of a supportive, inclusive firm offering a relaxed and trusting environment allowing balance between being in the office and working from home. 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