Pricing Administrator

A full-time permanent role based in Cambridge, Birmingham or Norwich with occasional travel to other offices and flexibility to work from home for up to 50% of time

The role

Reporting to the firm’s Head of Pricing, this is a newly created role in our Pricing team to support the Firm and our National Service Lines (NSLs) and sectors, achieve the 2025 strategy to be a leader in client experience and drive profitable growth.

The Pricing Administrator will be responsible for ensuring all charging arrangements agreed with our clients are correctly recorded on our systems, proactively monitoring for changes and providing relevant information to the business as required. The role has a focus on ensuring all charge rates are correctly recorded.

This is a great opportunity to join a high performing finance team and further your career in an ambitious and growing top 50 national law firm.

The person

This role requires someone who has experience of working in a high performing finance team and a proven track record of delivering excellent internal client service and providing day to day finance support.  It is likely that your background and experience will include the following areas of expertise:

• Previous experience in a finance or similar role, ideally in a law or other professional services firm.

• High level of numerical and computer literacy.  Excellent MS Excel skills, with the desire to continually improve them.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• A commercial outlook

• Ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders.

• Knowledge of financial systems (ideally 3E)

The role requires someone who:

• is proactive and adaptable.

• has a continuous improvement mindset.

• is energetic and delivery focused, with resilience to deal with challenging situations and deadlines.

• has a consultative and collaborative working style.

• has strong attention to detail.

The activities

• Responsible for supporting your key stakeholders

• Working with relevant Client Relationship Partners (and their Executive Support Staff) to understand and record pricing arrangements agreed with our clients.

• Monitoring existing pricing arrangements for renewal dates etc and providing proactive support and insight to ensure relevant discussions are held in a timely fashion.

• Providing pricing analysis for regular reporting, as well as ad hoc reporting and other analysis as required.

• Be the first point of contact for the business in dealing with charge rate queries and changes.

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders, to include the Financial Controller, CFO, Commercial Managers, Head of Pricing, Finance Systems Manager and others within the business.

• Provide support to the business to ensure the annual standard charge rate review process is completed efficiently

• Work with other members of the Pricing team, and wider finance team, to offer a complete service to the business in respect of charging arrangements agreed with clients.

• Become an expert to fully exploit the charging capabilities within the 3E system and understand how that can be applied to specific clients.

• Using the system and tools that we have within the business, whilst fully embracing any developments, to identify business trends, gap analysis or other data requests.

Other responsibilities

• Ensure you develop a sound knowledge of key finance systems

• Perform other work as necessary to assist in meeting firm objectives as delegated by the FC, Head of Pricing and CFO.

The Mills & Reeve Business services career structure

We have a firm wide Business Services career structure and a published career progression framework.  Within the firm wide career structure there are five career levels.  For the purposes of the framework, this role is at advisor level and the role profile that details the outcomes and activities expected of across the firm is included with this job description.  Further information on the firm’s Business Services career structure is available from the HR team.

The package

As you would expect, the firm offers a generous salary and benefits.  The firm’s standard benefits are detailed in the following link:

http://www.mills-reeve.com/benefits/

The firm

What really sets Mills & Reeve apart from other law firms is the way we work with our clients. We understand that clients, in the 21st century, no longer want a traditional law firm – they want one that embraces forward thinking approaches to service, billing, commercial know-how, innovation, people management and community engagement.

Why not find out more about what it’s like to work at Mills & Reeve by taking two minutes to watch our video?

https://player.vimeo.com/video/157575542

Pre-employment screening

Please note that, in the event that we make an offer of employment, we will conduct pre-employment screening that includes checks relating to your professional and academic qualifications, references from previous employers, your eligibility to work in the UK and any disciplinary history recorded with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). You will also be required to complete a self-declaration to assess your character and suitability.

Disclosure and barring service check

This post is also subject to a satisfactory response from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions/cautions.

And finally..

Mills & Reeve is committed to providing an inclusive and supportive working environment. We are happy to consider flexible working arrangements and endeavour to achieve the right balance for both our people and the business. This attitude to flexible working ensures we continue to provide outstanding service to our clients, whilst allowing our people to develop their careers in the knowledge that personal priorities will remain just that.

Mills & Reeve is committed to promoting equality, diversity and to providing an inclusive and supportive environment. Please click here to find further information regarding our diversity policy.

If you would like any more information about Mills & Reeve, you can visit our website by clicking on the following link:

http://www.mills-reeve.com/