Senior Finance & Billing Specialist

About Brunswick

Brunswick is a strategic advisory firm focused on critical issues. Our purpose is to help the great value-creating organizations of the world play a more successful role in society.

We advise on critical issues at the center of business, politics and society, and help our clients – the leaders of large, complex organizations – understand and navigate these interconnected worlds.

Brunswick is one firm globally, operating as a single profit center. This allows us to respond seamlessly and effectively to clients’ needs wherever they are in the world.

Background

Founded in London in 1987, Brunswick’s global partnership has grown organically to 27 offices in 18 countries. We began as a M&A and financial communications firm and, over time, expanded our capabilities and expertise to crisis communications and communications on other business critical issues. We invested in new offices, sectors and a wider variety of offers for clients such as public and regulatory affairs, major litigation, business and society, cyber, employee engagement and digital. Our in-house creative agency, Merchant Cantos, delivers creative, visual content for clients.

We rank number 1 in the world over the last five years by global deal value and global deal volume and were named Band 1 advisors in the U.S. and the UK earlier this year by Chambers and Partners, the legal rankings service, as one of the very top communications firms offering legal and litigation support work.

Our CEO is Neal Wolin, based in Washington, D.C. Our Chairman is Sir Alan Parker, based in London. 

Opportunity

The role of Client Finance & Billing Specialist focuses on billing clients (fees and expenses), receivable maintenance (adjustments, credits, write-offs), receivable collections and management reporting for a fast-growing financial communications firm.

 Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage the issuance of client invoices to ensure timeliness and accuracy
• Maintain and monitor accounts receivable aging, collection reports, and customer master file for assigned portfolio of partner contracts
• Review and document client contract payment terms to support financial reporting, billing and revenue recognition
• Liaise with Financial Data Administrator to ensure proper set up of client payment terms within the billing system
• Query and review project expenses to ensure costs are posted correctly and billable costs are invoiced timely
• Monitor activity in staffing and timekeeping system to ensure job codes are opened/maintained/closed accurately
• Ensure that contract changes are billed and documented appropriately

Qualifications, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree is required
• 8-10 years’ experience in billing and collections within the professional services industry
• Ability to organize work, multi-task and consistently meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel (e.g., pivot tables, lookups, charts)

Inclusion and Diversity at Brunswick

Maintaining and strengthening a diverse workforce and inclusive workplace are pillars of Brunswick’s culture and key to our future success. Valuing and supporting every colleague as an individual while helping them reach their full potential is critical to attracting and developing our greatest strength – our people. By embracing our differences and diverse perspectives we create richer experiences within our firm and enhance the quality of the ideas and advice that we deliver to our clients.

The Americas

In the U.S., we have offices in Chicago, Dallas, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. In Brazil, we have an office in Sao Paulo. We advise clients on, among other things, domestic and cross border M&A, IPOs, activism, capital markets and investor relations, public and regulatory affairs, geopolitical issues, litigation, crisis, cyber, employee engagement, digital, opinion research and on broader reputation campaigns.

Colleagues in the U.S. are drawn from a variety of backgrounds and consist of in-depth industry and sector experts from banking, law, accounting, politics, government, journalism and the media, consulting and elsewhere. Our U.S. CEO is Nik Deogun.