Finance Assistant

Our client is one of the largest teams of lawyers in the South outside London.Independently recognised as one of the UK's leading national law firms who build deep relationships with their clients.

They are now looking to recruit a Finance Assistant

Responsibilities

• Bank Reconciliations - daily and monthly (including currency accounts)

• Logging incoming cheques and preparing paperwork for banking

• Processing cheques for both office and client bank accounts

• Processing invoices

• Monitoring client account transactions and posting transactions to the client account and matter ledgers

• Assisting with purchase ledger through Concur invoicing

• Petty cash reconciliation and re-imbursement

• Processing payment of staff season ticket loan requests

• General ad-hoc support to legal departments

• Overseeing the deposit accounts including processing requests for investments & withdrawals, maintaining spreadsheet of accounts and updating records

• Preparing and distributing aged WIP and disbursement reports

• Filing of Money Market and Escrow account statements

Candidate Profile

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to deal with all levels of employees

• Committed to excellent client service

• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy

• Effective organisation & administration skills

• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines

• Proficient in the use of Excel, Word and Outlook

• The candidate will have 5 GCSE’s including English and Maths at Grade C orabove. A 'levels are preferred.

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.