Accounts Assistant - Legal / Conveyancing
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Milton Keynes
- Salary
- 18000.00 - 24000.00 GBP Annual + Good training
- Posted
- 29 Jul 2022
- Closes
- 26 Aug 2022
- Sectors
- Accountancy
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Role - Legal Accounts Assistant
Location - Milton Keynes
Salary - GBP18K - GBP24K+ - dependent on experience.
Hours - Ideally Part-time but Full-Time Considered
Our Client is a relatively new but quickly growing Conveyancing Firm with offices in Central Milton Keynes. Headed up by a Client I have dealt with for many years when working at other Firms, he is now developing his own business and already has a team in excess of 25 and we have placed 9 people already in 2022.
They pride themselves in providing a personal approach to their Clients, providing every client with a named contact, as well as a small support team to facilitate their case as quickly and efficiently as possible.
They focus on high value / quality cases from a range of quality Introducers across the country who continue to provide repeat business due to the quality of service they provide. They aim to provide a more personalised, quality service than some of the mass volume Conveyancing Firms.
As the business grows, they need addition Account support, with this role reporting to the Accounts Manager.
Profile:
You must have experience working in a professional and busy environment including some experience within an accounts role and seeking to advance your career.
You will need to be an outgoing and proactive individual who works well both on their own and in a team.
Duties:
The role will be developed over time, dependent on a person s knowledge and experience and so the successful candidate can expect to be trained and developed so that they can fulfil as many parts of the role. Initially the Assistant would pick up the lower level of tasks and move on to include the others as they gain knowledge and experience.
Job Purpose
To be, as a team member, a comprehensive and quality part of their Accounts department.
Key Duties
1. Develop a very good understanding of the Firm s Legal accounts software which is Quill
2. Become familiar with Solicitors accounts rules and help ensure these are adhered to on a daily basis
3. To become familiar with the following accounts procedures until able to deal, unsupervised, with all accounts work on a daily basis:
Post cardnet echits daily
Post land registry registration echits daily
Cost transfers: produce spreadsheet and post echits
Printing and checking of completion packs against ledgers
Keying payments
Printing off letters and getting cheques signed by partners and ready to post
Echit checking
Telephone/ email enquiries
Identification and correction of reconciliation mistakes
Processing refunds via secure trading and bank payments
Chasing balances
Understanding of the case management system
Run and understand reports
Produce spreadsheets where necessary to aid Legal teams
4. To understand and operate the Company s procedures to avoid fraud or negligence and improve performance standards.
5. From time to time, as required it may be necessary to carry out extra duties in addition to those listed above.
Communication & Working Relationships
Internal - Liaise and work together with the Accounts team members, the team members in the Legal teams and the post completion Department.
External - Liaise with the Agents, Suppliers, Quill Pinpoint cashiering staff.
IN APPLYING PLEASE PROVIDE A PARAGRAPH TO SELL YOURSELF INTO SUCH A ROLE
Location - Milton Keynes
Salary - GBP18K - GBP24K+ - dependent on experience.
Hours - Ideally Part-time but Full-Time Considered
Our Client is a relatively new but quickly growing Conveyancing Firm with offices in Central Milton Keynes. Headed up by a Client I have dealt with for many years when working at other Firms, he is now developing his own business and already has a team in excess of 25 and we have placed 9 people already in 2022.
They pride themselves in providing a personal approach to their Clients, providing every client with a named contact, as well as a small support team to facilitate their case as quickly and efficiently as possible.
They focus on high value / quality cases from a range of quality Introducers across the country who continue to provide repeat business due to the quality of service they provide. They aim to provide a more personalised, quality service than some of the mass volume Conveyancing Firms.
As the business grows, they need addition Account support, with this role reporting to the Accounts Manager.
Profile:
You must have experience working in a professional and busy environment including some experience within an accounts role and seeking to advance your career.
You will need to be an outgoing and proactive individual who works well both on their own and in a team.
Duties:
The role will be developed over time, dependent on a person s knowledge and experience and so the successful candidate can expect to be trained and developed so that they can fulfil as many parts of the role. Initially the Assistant would pick up the lower level of tasks and move on to include the others as they gain knowledge and experience.
Job Purpose
To be, as a team member, a comprehensive and quality part of their Accounts department.
Key Duties
1. Develop a very good understanding of the Firm s Legal accounts software which is Quill
2. Become familiar with Solicitors accounts rules and help ensure these are adhered to on a daily basis
3. To become familiar with the following accounts procedures until able to deal, unsupervised, with all accounts work on a daily basis:
Post cardnet echits daily
Post land registry registration echits daily
Cost transfers: produce spreadsheet and post echits
Printing and checking of completion packs against ledgers
Keying payments
Printing off letters and getting cheques signed by partners and ready to post
Echit checking
Telephone/ email enquiries
Identification and correction of reconciliation mistakes
Processing refunds via secure trading and bank payments
Chasing balances
Understanding of the case management system
Run and understand reports
Produce spreadsheets where necessary to aid Legal teams
4. To understand and operate the Company s procedures to avoid fraud or negligence and improve performance standards.
5. From time to time, as required it may be necessary to carry out extra duties in addition to those listed above.
Communication & Working Relationships
Internal - Liaise and work together with the Accounts team members, the team members in the Legal teams and the post completion Department.
External - Liaise with the Agents, Suppliers, Quill Pinpoint cashiering staff.
IN APPLYING PLEASE PROVIDE A PARAGRAPH TO SELL YOURSELF INTO SUCH A ROLE