Quote-To-Cash (Q2C) Finance Data Analyst

Location:

Belfast

Workplace:

Hybrid

The opportunity:

The Quote-To-Cash (Q2C) Finance Data Analyst will coordinate and assist with the day-to-day management of our data to ensure it meets internal and external compliance requirements. This will involve coordinating with Local and Global client revenue, budgeting, and Pricing teams and using various sources, including legal databases and other repositories to ensure all matters are set up correctly and reduce delays in the billing process.

Working at Baker McKenzie:

Baker McKenzie is the world’s leading law firm with offices all over the world. Our Belfast Centre is home to over 400 colleagues in both legal and professional services.

We offer one of the best workplace benefits packages in the business with comprehensive private health cover, income protection, life assurance and a full employee assistance plan. These and a host of other benefits make us one of the most desirable companies to work for in Belfast.

We are committed to promoting inclusion, diversity, and equity for all and are confident we can provide a career as individual and as exceptional as you.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Pas, billing teams, and non-local offices to ensure data on our matters are correct
• Ensure with assistance from the Pricing Team, compliance with agreed billing processes and procedures throughout the local and global billing community
• Oversee our client requirements, including year-end deadlines and keep all relevant parties updated
• Assist with collating KPIs where possible
• Ensure matters fully reflect client requirements on a mass level
• Ensure information in the Client SharePoint site is correct and up to date
• Work closely with the Client Revenue Analyst Team to progress requests to assist with the revenue cycle
• Understand all bill out-put options to assist with presenting options and recommendations to our Team and clients on requests received, based on general know-how SAP works (knowledge to be acquired)
• Attend regular internal team meetings, to discuss issues of concerns and resolution, and share resolutions to issues / positive changes to existing processes
• Address Ad hoc requests, and revisit these to assist and provide an automated process
• Provide reports to monitor pricing arrangements and budgets set at the client/matter level
• Collate Revenue information and update on IKC clients with Global CSS
• Assist with Internal and External Audit requests
• Create a network both internally and externally linking in contacts to maximize efficiency around client/matter data
• Work seamlessly with our Service Centres, where issues arise work to resolve these
• Work with our Accruals & Budget and Pricing Team to identify areas to streamline and make more efficient the Revenue Cycle

Essential Criteria:

To be successful in this role you will need:

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Business administrative experience helpful
• Knowledge of SAP helpful
• Knowledge and experience in electronic billing systems helpful
• Advanced/Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
• An energetic, forward-thinking, and creative individual with high ethical standards
• An individual with sound technical skills, analytical ability, good judgement, and who is well organized and a team player
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to deal effectively with request
• Able to establish productive working relationships within our Team and then progress to the business as a whole
• Commercial pragmatic attitude and understanding of our client relationships
• Able to establish working relationships with a client's accounts payable and procurement teams
• Able to influence clients to refine current billing practices and resolve issues, both theirs and ours, without detriment to the overall client relationship
• Delivers high-quality work
• Maintain a courteous and professional manner
• Able to present information concisely and professionally
• Deal with sensitive information in an appropriate manner
• Is positive, polite, and attentive in all situations, responding promptly to requests
• Demonstrate a positive approach to working as part of a team and is a reliable and effective team member
• Is aware of the impact of own actions and modifies behaviours accordingly
• Willing to assist team members even when busy
• Work effectively with others outside formal lines of authority to accomplish organizational goals
• Respect and enjoy the diversity of cultural, social, and academic backgrounds found in the Firm