Cliffordchance

Associate (Billing/O2C)

Hyderabad, India · Hybrid · Full-time

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EmployerCliffordchance
LocationHyderabad, India
Work styleHybrid
Employment typeFull-time
Employer posted2 months ago

The role

The role is responsible for end-to-end Billing and Collections Management, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant invoicing and effective recovery of receivables. The position supports matter billing, client collections, and stakeholder query resolution while meeting defined SLAs, quality standards, and control requirements. The role also contributes to audit support, data reconciliation, and continuous process improvement to reduce lock-ups and bad debt.

Who you will work with

Partners, fee earners, and secretarial teams for billing narratives, amendments, and approvals
Local office finance teams and regional stakeholders
Audit, compliance, and control teams during internal and external reviews

What you will be responsible for

Managing end-to-end billing activities, including narrative review, time adjustments, pre-bill generation, draft review, and bill finalisation
Ensuring billing accuracy through quality assurance, data reconciliation, and adherence to SLAs
Manage client follow-ups and query resolution
Maintaining debtor summaries, analyzing bad debt, and reducing lock-ups
Driving improvements to accelerate cash collection and payment release
Supporting audits and ensuring compliance with operational and control standards

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What you will do

Billing Management

Narrative Review
Establishing the billing activity of the projects/ matters.
Generate the pre bill and drafts.
Review of the draft bill.
Follow up with Secretaries if required for amendment.
Finalization of the bills if in scope.
Complete quality assurance on billing field
Reconcile the data.
Comply with TAT and Accuracy as per SLA / operations metrics
Handling local office's queries
Supporting role during audits

Collection Management

Establishing the collection activity/ cycle.
Follow up with clients for payment.
Handling client queries.
Handling Local offices queries.
Analyzing the bad debt
Managing the client contacts
Initiating the improvements for quick payment release
Initiating the improvements for reducing lock ups.
Maintaining the debtor summary and scope

Your experience

The successful candidate should have:

Desired experience:

1-2 years relevant experience in Billing and collection/ Accounts receivables
Commerce graduate. Flexibility to work in 24*7 environments
Good communication - oral & written
Self-starter, energetic and good team player
Open to deliver additional efforts as and when needed
Achievement of Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly targets and SLA.
Been driven and motivated to achieve targets set.
Following Robust escalation process.
Resilient under pressure and ability to quickly adapt to unforeseen work demands, Including day-to-day activities
Handling of queries for the owned area of responsibility
Working with cross functional teams in Country
To ensure compliance with work instructions and absolute compliance with corporate guidelines encompassing in particular ethical and financial rules.
To escalate in a timely and professional manner any issues that prevent the completion of tasks and achievement of SLA and targets
To respond and action in a timely professional manner any escalations received

To provide timely and accurate reporting that captures performance trend metrics and actionable management information.

How we will support you

From your first day with us, you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and development your skills and knowledge. From formal training, informal coaching and mentoring through to skills-based and technical training and on the job learning.

Equal opportunities

At Clifford Chance, we forge an inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives are recognised and valued. It’s a culture where everyone has equal access to opportunities to thrive and succeed. We are guided by our values-based Code, which sets high standards of conduct and has a principle focused on being inclusive.

We comply with the law and regulations in every location where we operate and we are committed to delivering fair and equal access to all applicants and employees irrespective of background. This applies across all aspects of employment from recruitment and selection to development, progression, and day-to-day working life.

Our global network of affinity, faith and support groups are open to all. These communities help to create an environment where everyone at the firm can feel they belong and can reach their full potential.

Find out more about our inclusive culture here

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