Working Capital Controller

Job description / Role

Working Capital Controller - Riyadh

Morgan McKinley are assisting a leading Global Law firm to recruit a Working Capital Controller for their Riyadh office. They have around 30 staff in their Riyadh office and 200 people based across the Middle East in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Qatar. The Riyadh office is the fastest growing office in the region and you'll have an opportunity to prove yourself and move into a management role.

You'll report into the Finance Manager for the Middle East. She is from Australia, is in her early 30's and she is a qualified accountant with many years management experience working for some of the largest Legal firms globally. She is based in Dubai and you'll have regular weekly calls with her and the rest of the finance team which consists of 15 people. You won't be on your own in Riyadh however as there is already a gentleman in Finance who you'll work closely with and they have 3 Partners who you'll be advising daily.

The Working Capital Controller is required to manage the billing and collection function for the Saudi Arabian office.

* Meet with Partners and other lawyers on a regular basis to discuss billing and collection issues, review WIP and as they are busy, you will need to chase up with them to ensure they've time-sheets and other important information posted on time so patience will be required!
* You'll need to develop relationships with key clients to ensure that the billing and collection process runs smoothly.
* Provide training to new starters on billing procedures, time recording and other working capital matters.
* Be involved in the preparation of bills. These may be highly complex with time breakdowns, and in differing formats in accordance with client billing arrangements.
* You'll need to take part in monthly Finance Partners' meetings where you will provide updates on the working capital position and agree any remedial action required.
* Responsible for the prompt resolution of billing queries, estimates, time transfers, creating Excel reports on an ad hoc basis and assist Partners with pricing analysis.
* You'll need to involved at the start of new engagements to ensure billing is set-up correctly
* Always look for new ways to improve billing and collection processes

Requirements

If you have a couple of years experience working as a Working Capital Controller and are open to living in Riyadh then we'd love to speak to you. You'll get the opportunity to work for one of the best Law firms globally in a fast growing office so your opportunity to move into a management role will be strong.

* You'll ideally have worked as a Working Capital Controller in a Law firm for at least 3 years
* You'll be outgoing and friendly as you'll need to develop relationships with Partners and staff internally as well as with clients.
* Fluency in English is required and ability to speak Arabic would be a nice bonus too
* They use a 3E System, don't worry if you haven't used this system before however good Excel skills would really help
* If you are willing to work hard and are open to learning then they'll be interested to speak with you.
* Western educated candidates preferred
* Candidates with a transferable Iqama will be preferred also

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

About the Company

At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.