Revenue Controllers

Mishcon de Reya; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Mishcon de Reya is seeking a Senior Revenue Controller to join the Finance Business Manager team in a hybrid role. You will translate financial data into actionable recommendations, partner with leadership, and contribute to improving forecasting, working capital and long-term planning.

This role requires strong communication with senior stakeholders and cross-functional collaboration. The role focuses on managing WIP, debtors and revenue processes, with on-site requirements 2–4 days per week to

Qualifications

• Experience with working capital management in a professional services environment.
• Proven ability to translate financial data into actionable insights.
• Strong communication with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support Finance Business Managers to improve departmental financial performance, focusing on working capital days.
• Oversee Credit and WIP positions and collaborate with Credit team and Fee Earners.
• Prepare and deliver accurate financial reports, models and analyses to support forecasting and working capital.
• Conduct ad hoc analyses at client, matter, work-type and partner levels as needed.
• Lead initiatives to remediate root causes of queries and improve processes.
• Ensure timely billing of WIP and monitor unbilled time and debt.

Skills

Working capital management

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

Analytical thinking

Tools

Elite 3E

Aderant

Job description

The Senior Revenue Controller sits in the Finance Business Manager team and provides strategic financial insight and commercial guidance to support effective decision making across the business. Partnering with leadership teams and working closely with Finance Operations teams, they translate financial data into clear, actionable recommendations that drive performance, improve forecasting, and strengthen long term planning. Revenue Controllers will work to support and complement the Finance Business managers with a focus on actively managing and improving working capital. This will involve partnering with fee earners, practice group leaders, the Finance Business Managers, Finance Operations and Legal Debt Recovery Teams. Reporting to the Lead Finance Business Manager, the main duties include, but are not limited to:

Responsibilities

• Support the Finance Business Managers to improve departmental financial performance- specifically lockup days.
• Oversight of the Credit and WIP position, working closely together with the Credit team and Fee Earners building strong working relationships.
• Preparing and delivering accurate financial reports, models and analysis to support working capital.
• Ad hoc analysis at client, matter, work-type, Partner and fee-earner level as needed.
• Preparing and delivering Monthly Debt and WIP trend analysis/models.
• Proactively targeting fee earners who have rising working capital (both work-in-progress and debtors)
• Drive timely billing of all billable WIP and monitor unbilled time
• Lead initiatives to remediate the root causes of queries
• Act as a bridge between the Finance Operations teams and the fee earners
• Provide insights and recommendations to reduce working capital days
• Support budgeting and forecasting processes related to revenue
• Identify process inefficiencies and lead improvement initiatives
• Contribute to finance transformation projects and system enhancements
• To manage process and be point of contact for our Legal Debt Recovery Process with external providers and/or internal teams
• Build strong working relationships with the Analysts supporting the FBM team

This role is hybrid with expectations that you will be onsite 2-4 days per week to facilitate opportunities to meet and interact with fee earners face to face.

Requirements

• Experience of working capital management in a professional services environment (previouslegal experience would be beneficial but is not essential)
• Demonstratable experience of positive impact on working capital days
• Strong knowledge of Finance Operations processes (Billing, Collections, Cashiering & Payments)
• Familiarity with legal finance systems (Elite 3E, Aderant, or similar) beneficial
• Excellent attention to detail
• You are a problem solver, can analyse the cause of the issue and take on initiatives to ensure those issues do not recur
• You are an exceptional communicator (written and oral), with the ability to influence somevery challenging and/or senior stakeholders using a range of strategies
• You are analytical - we are a data-driven function and expect a high level of proficiency in this area
• You are a collaborator - you can work in partnership with colleagues in both Finance and the fee earners to resolve issues
• You are comfortable taking charge of your own workload with minimum supervision

The Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent, international professional services business with law at its heart, employing over 1400 people with over 650 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services. Mishcon de Reya LLP is based in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore, Hong Kong and UAE. The firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. The work the firm undertakes is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, centred around three increasingly entwined and connected sectors: the Innovation Economy, Private Wealth and Capital, and Real Estate. The firm is known as a disputes powerhouse with a formidable capacity firmwide for dispute resolution. The Mishcon de Reya Group includes consultancy businesses MDR Discover, MDR Mayfair (in London, Singapore and Dubai), MDR ONE, and MDRi (in Hong Kong). The Group also includes MDR Lab, which invests in the most promising early stage legaltech companies as well as the Mishcon Academy, its in-house place of learning and platform for thought leadership. In 2024, the Group announced its first strategic acquisition in the alternative legal services market, flexible legal resourcing business Flex Legal. It also acquired a majority stake in Somos, a global group actions management business. We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.