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
- Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
- Career advancement including award-winning Learning & Development programs
The Prospect
We have an opportunity available for a Credit Controller to join our Brisbane team on a full time, permanent basis.
Our Credit Control team is part of the firm's BSC Finance team based in Australia and UK.
Joining as the Credit Controller, you'll be responsible for facilitating the timely payment of amounts due and payable for the supply of legal services, with a view to reducing debt levels, aged debt and potential losses. In this role, you will manage the credit control processes for a selection of the firm's practice groups and strategic national clients.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Establishing and maintaining relationships across the business with partners, secretaries and business managers;
- Attending regular debtor review meetings with partners and secretaries to understand the nature of debts,
agree on appropriate collection actions and escalate debt issues;
- Analysing the debtor's ledger to identify priorities and risks;
- Following-up clients to progress payment of outstanding debts in order to improve cashflow and reduce debtor days;
- Contributing to the monthly cash flow forecasting process; and
- Preparing reports for major clients accounts, partners or clients as requested.
A full job description, including a detailed breakdown of responsibilities, can be found attached at the bottom the advertisement on our Ashurst Perkins Coie careers page: https://www.ashurstperkins.com/en/careers/
We are interested in hearing from people who have:
- Prior relevant experience in a similar credit/collections/accounts receivables role
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Demonstrated ability to manage time well and prioritise tasks
- An understanding of client and stakeholder needs, with excellent relationship building skills
- Experience in a law firm or professional services firm will be highly regarded
We value diverse perspectives at Ashurst Perkins Coie, so even if you don't feel you meet all of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply.
If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process or in the workplace, please contact:
[email protected] for a confidential conversation.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Ashurst Perkins Coie. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies.
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📌 Credit Controller (Brisbane)
🏢 Ashurst Perkins Coie
📍 Brisbane