Legal Casehandler

Our client, a leading probate administration company, are looking to recruit a Senior Case Handler.

Your role as the senior case handler will be to administer all aspects of the estate administration for the more difficult cases.

Your duties and responsibilities include collecting all the date of death of figures to assist with the probate application. You will be required to track this process and chase where needed. Once the grant has been issued you will assist in closing all accounts down and calling all funds into the estate. You will be responsible in keeping clients up to date through the whole process.

Once the accounts have been closed you will pass the file across to our inhouse accounts team who will send out the estate accounts. You will then be responsible in ensuring those accounts get returned and the beneficiaries are paid.

Once the estate administration has been closed you will close and archive the file accordingly.

You will work alongside other case handlers, reporting to the Probate Manager

Your responsibilities broken down but not limited to are:

Gather all associated information for the probate application.

Chase up all outstanding organisations

Close all accounts down.

Liaise with third parties such as estate agents and conveyancers.

Ensure payments have been made to beneficiaries.

Close the file

Skills Required

Full training will be provided but you need to well-organised, friendly, polite, and have legal experience, ideally within private client/probate.

You will have the ability to deal with a variety of clients. You must be self-motivated with excellent computer skills and have polished communication skills. You must be able to work under pressure.

The hours are Monday- Friday 9am to 5pm.

Please note we regret that due to the high volume of CVs received we cannot give individual feedback to candidates. If you are not contacted within 5 working days of submitting your CV please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

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Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £28,000.00-£35,000.00 per year