Accounts Assistant - Bournemouth, United Kingdom - Lester Aldridge
Description
Job type:
Permanent, full-time
Lester Aldridge wishes to recruit an Accounts Assistant for our busy Finance team in the Bournemouth office.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Processing and payment of Agents/Counsel/Sheriffs invoices
- Processing via system and purchase ledger sending payments by bacs and producing/sending remittances weekly and monthly payment runs.
- Forwarding Client receipts to Clients by bacs in bulk each week and producing remittances.
- Production of auto bills running bills on system, manually producing bill front, producing and checking excel backup spreadsheet.
- Dealing with suspense account and returning unallocated bacs payments that we are not able to allocate in line with SAR rules.
- Monthly auditing of Client matter balances on closed matters and querying balances with fee earners sending balances out to Client.
- Preparing monthly management information and spreadsheets for a certain Client and sending to relevant Partner/Fee earner.
- Reporting on unrecoverable expenditure for a Client and posting to nominal.
- Saving PDF bank statements to the system each month.
- Liaising with the bank, clients, agents, fee earners and finance team as needed.
- Covering for team holiday/sickness: Daily bank reconciliation, conflict searches, interest calculations, daily banking and printing cheques.
- Periodic tasks for Personal Injury department including the production of manual bills and forwarding Client settlements for.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCE:
- GCSE of equivalent in English Language and Maths.
- Accounts experience/ Strong numeric skills.
- Excel spreadsheet skills.
- Previous experience in professional services/ legal environment desirable.
- Ability to relate to others/ team player.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Efficient with good organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise workload and reschedule as required.
- Selfmotivated and flexible attitude to work and time, being conscientious with a common sense approach to work.
- Professional and credible, with the ability to act with tact and discretion and to maintain confidentiality are essential.
- Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.
- Polite, friendly and confident telephone manner.
- Willingness to learn.
In return, we offer a competitive package including holiday starting at 22 days and increasing with years service to 25 days plus bank holidays, additional day off at Christmas and Birthday, access to Perkbox - an online discounts platform.
Lester Aldridge is committed to being an equal opportunities employer.
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE
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