WIP Analyst
- glasgow, scotland, United Kingdom
- Permanent·Hybrid
- Part time
- £32 - £42 Per Hour
Job Description
At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.
At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.
What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?
- Flexible work options - part-time, working from home and additional leave
- Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
- Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs
The Opportunity:
WIP Management is part of the firm's global Working Capital team based in Australia and the UK.
The WIP Analyst role involves managing and monitoring Partner WIP review activity for a selection of practice groups. The successful candidate will monitor and support timely billing of WIP for the supply of legal services, with a view to reducing unbilled WIP levels, aged WIP and potential losses.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Establish and maintain relationships across the business with Partners, PE's, Finance/Business Mangers and the wider BSC Working Capital teams.
- Conduct regular, proactive WIP balance follow-ups on a monthly cycle, ensuring comments, RAG statuses, and values accurately reflect current activity.
- Ask "tailored questions" based on matter information to ensure the right data is obtained.
- Reduce aged WIP by identifying and resolving billing blockages; review smaller aged balances with a view to billing or writing off.
- Encourage earlier submission of bills throughout the month. Promote interim billing on longer-running matters to maintain healthy WIP levels.
This is a full-time role on a Permanent basis, based in our Glasgow office with hybrid working.
More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site
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About you:
- Previous experience working in a similar Working Capital role, preferably in a legal or professional services environment.
- Experience of working in a law firm advantageous but not essential.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Working knowledge of 3E practice management system or similar practice management system.
- Ability to liaise at all levels and build strong relations with internal clients.
- Ability to negotiate suitable outcomes and possess practical problem-solving skills