Legal Accounts Assistant
Posted a week ago by Plus One Recruitment
Main Responsibilities:
- Print daily bank statements and export the previous day's records
- Perform bank reconciliations for client and office accounts
- Regularly check and action posting slips on the practice management system
- Verify bank details for client payments by matching details with email evidence and through verbal confirmation with fee earners/partners
- Input BACS and TT instructions onto the online banking system for authorisation
- Check for office and client receipts on the online banking system
- Process and print office and client cheques, obtaining signatures from authorised partners
- Calculate interest due to clients upon enquiries from fee earners
- Process and bank received cheques (both client and office) at the local branch
- Obtain authorisation to pay supplier invoices and input invoices to the Purchase Ledger
- Prepare payment runs of supplier invoices for onward authorisation
- Handle credit and debit card payments from client telephone calls
- Prepare staff expenses for payroll and post costs to the ledgers
- Prepare the monthly partner credit card statement, posting the expenses to the appropriate accounts
Key Skills & Experience:
- Previous experience of working in a law firm
- Previous experience of working in accounts
- Ability to manage multiple tasks throughout the day essential
- Polite and courteous telephone manner
- Ability to learn new systems (practice management system, banking portals etc)
- Professional attitude required for a respected professional service firm
- Accuracy and attention to finer details e.g. checking the postings into correct ledgers with supportive narrative
- Hybrid working 3/2
- Private healthcare.
- Eye care scheme.
- 32 days Annual Leave
To express interest in this promising role, kindly forward your latest CV, detailing your present or most recent remuneration package and any notice period you might have. For a discreet, detailed discussion about the role, you can reach out to Daniel Marlow at (phone number removed).
- Type:
- Permanent
- Contract Length:
- N/A
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- Job Reference:
- 750934
- Job ID:
- 221964357
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