Billing Manager

Position: Billing Manager (Permanent)
Location: Bartley Green

Role Summary
This is a pivotal role overseeing our regional and national billing team across UK. The person will help create and deliver strategic direction for all billing operations, ensuring our processes are efficient, accurate, compliant and targets are met, whilst developing high performing teams and driving constant improvements and efficiencies. This person will oversee a small internal team and ensure company wide billing requirements are achieved.
What you will be doing:

* Leading the Billing function and setting strategic goals and operational priorities

* Drive process improvements and automation initiatives to streamline billing operations

* Develop and implement Billing SOP, international billing policies, procedures and best practices

* Monitoring performance metrics, driving improvements, and delivering on KPIs to the National Service Director

* Liaise directly with clients, senior management, technical teams and clients to resolve billing queries and ensure alignment with client billing guidelines as well as initial client onboarding

* Ensure compliance with global VAT Laws, International invoicing requirements by country, account rules and international financial controls and billing practices

* Monitor, strategize and reduce Work in Progress across the business, work with key stakeholders across National Accounts to ensure we are always assessing and progressing billing opportunities in good timescales

* Collaborate with finance, compliance and legal operations teams to support audits and internal reporting requirements

* Responsible for leading the monthly billing process across the team

* Responsible for overall billing communication, keeping the UK team and key stakeholders up to date with all necessary information

* Direct management of 5 Team Leads
What we will need from you

* Comprehensive and proven experience in a similar role ideally within the Fire Engineering sector or Engineering sector

* Knowledge of regulatory compliance including international legal billing standards, VAT and Accounts rules (essential)

* Ideally, experienced in helping develop and lead a transformational billing function (essential)

* Experience across multiple billing platforms (essential), advantageous if including Evo Mx, Corrigo

* A proactive approach and will be committed to delivering internal and external customer service excellence (essential)
What you can expect in return

* Competitive and negotiable salary depending on experience

* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and option to buy 5 days

* Contributory company pension scheme

* Life Assurance

* Health care scheme

* Hours:

36.5 hours per week (Monday to Thursday 8.45 – 16.40, Friday 8.45 – 16:00)

Please note:

You may be required to undertake a DBS check as part of your job role at Hall & Kay.
Additional Company information
What sets us apart? Our culture. What we call ‘the Hall & Kay way’.…it’s a people thing. Put simply, we know we can achieve more when we work as a team – with clients, with the communities we serve and in our own business. Our people create safety every single day, using their skills and experience to adapt to changing situations and rise to the challenges presented to them.

It’s our people that make us trusted to deliver.
Our Commitment
We promote equality and ensure we have an inclusive culture where we recognise and address unconscious bias or prejudice – whether involving race, sex, background, disability, sexuality or other factors. We create a supportive environment that drives innovation, creativity and results