Revenue Controller

This an exciting opportunity at our London office to join our Finance team as a Revenue Controller. This is on a full time (35hr a week) basis reporting into the Revenue Control Manager.

There are 19 people in the Finance Department, including the Director of Finance, 4 Finance Managers, 1 Management Accountant, 2 Assistant Management Accountants, 1 Senior Revenue Controller, 4 Revenue Controllers, 2 Senior Finance Assistants and 4 Finance Assistants.

As a Revenue Controller, the successful person will be responsible for WIP management, billing and credit control. This involves reviewing WIP balances with all fee earners including partners, processing bills, and securing swift payment of invoices. 

You will be required to liaise with Partners and team members at all levels as well as external clients applying an assertive yet tactful approach whilst maintaining positive and constructive relationships. Some examples of tasks include taking responsibility for Partners’ billing and credit control requirements, closely monitoring billing and cash collection budgets and targets as well as reviewing WIP balances.

This role is ideal for someone who has strong experience with billing and WIP with excellent numeracy skills and the ability to reconcile accurately. You possess solid IT skills with good knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel. Experience with Elite 3E would be an additional bonus. Good customer service/stakeholders’ management experience is also essential for the role.

Confidence with placing pressure tactfully on companies and people who owe money is central to the role. You will have strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt your communication style to meet the needs of different audiences including senior stakeholders of the business. Given the nature of this role, it would suit someone who thrives on building meaningful and impactful relationships with colleagues. 

If you are the type of person who enjoys the buzz of a collective team goal and thrives in an environment that welcomes new ideas, then we’d love to hear from you.

Winckworth Sherwood is an exciting, diverse, and growing business. We are a full-service law firm with a diverse client base, that prides itself on providing advice across a broad range of sectors and markets. Delivering a first-class service is key to everything we do.

Our clients range from some of the UK’s largest businesses and institutions, housebuilders and developers through to investors, professional partnerships, family offices, not for profit organisations and private individuals – all of which benefit from the flexible, practical approach of our lawyers.

We recognise that our people play a key part in our success and as a result we are committed to their development and well-being. We promote a healthy work-life balance and flexibility, keeping our people motivated and stimulated to deliver great things.

Application review

Your profile will be screened by a member of the WS recruitment team. No AI is used in our application screening process! Every candidate who applies to this role will be told if they have been successful or not in moving to the next stage.

Interview (in person at our London office)

At this stage, you will get the chance to learn more about the role, the firm, team dynamics and to ask any questions you may have. This interview will be with our Recruitment Manager and the Director of Finance, who will be asking you a series of competency-based questions aligned to the behaviours/skills needed to be successful in this vacancy.

Every candidate who reaches this stage will be offered the chance to have a feedback call with our Recruitment Manager to understand why they weren't offered the position, so that you can use this feedback to help with other job applications.

Offer of employment

If you are successful and accept our offer of employment, we will submit your details to our background screening company (Giant), who will conduct a series of background checks. Once these have been completed and we have separately validated your proof of right to work in the UK, a start date can be agreed, and your onboarding schedule can be planned