Legal Aid Administrator - London, United Kingdom - Taylor Rose MW
Description
Taylor Rose MW is a Top 60 Law firm with a national footprint across England and Wales. We are committed to developing our employees and to delivering outstanding service to our customers.Our vision is to continue to deliver
#smart #modern #law and to embrace and develop our employees through their legal career.
As the business continues to grow and develop, we are seeking a
Legal Aid Costs Administrator to sit within our
Billing and
Finance Team working closely with our Private Client Teams.
You will have experience within legal and finance, whether 6 months or 6 years we can offer a varied and challenging role, within a strong tea, culureand a company who nuture and commit to our
employees development to ensure outstanding service to our customers.
This role involves but is not limited to:
- Co ordinating
Legal aid costing
- Costing and submission of Legal Helps.
- Submit outcomes on CCMS for discharging certificate.
- Upload final order to complete discharge of public funding certificate.
- Allocate costs for counsel on CCMS so counsel can submit their bill.
- Address general notifications and actions on CCMS
- Request orders from the courts or other parties in involved.
- Search Mattersphere for Court Orders, Attendance Notes, Certificates or any other documentation required by the external costs for drafting bills.
- Liaise with Chambers, Experts, other Professionals for update on matters or the request for amended fee notes/invoices.
- Chase Fee Earners for their approval on matters in the billing process to progress matters and get the final bills paid.
- Download BACS statements to calculate BACS total and workout the Analysis.
- Send BACS Statements to all offices and others.
- Separate the POA report into individual Fee Earner Reports to send.
- Identifying files that are within the time period for claiming a payment on account. Then Submit POA's on CCMS and old style certificates.
- Request Recoupments on CCMS and the LAA for old style certificates.
- Request reinstating certificates for matters that need additional work i.e. counsel was not paid but matter was finalised.
- Go through the trackers and identify matters that are stuck in the billing process and find a solution.
- General Ad Hoc for FE and External Costs intervene and assist if required.
- Upload documents and assessed letters onto the portal if this has not been done.
- Check accounts and ledgers for evidence of payments for the bills and send the externals where appropriate.
Requirements:
- Experience of CCMS and CMRF.
- Have a good understanding of the accounting system, the banking system and case management systems.
- Full knowledge, experience and understanding of the Solicitors Accounts Rules is required.
- Ability to communicate at all levels and across all departments.
- Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work well independently and as part of a team.
- High levels of attention to detail.
- Professional approach.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Travel to other offices.
Company Core Values:
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Aspirations:
To be the best that you can, motivated to do things better, works smarter not harder, embraces changes, learns from mistakes, takes an interest in the vision of the business
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Integrity:
Open and honest, shows respect, admits mistakes, looks at ways to improve and share ideas
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Innovation:
Creative and Dynamic, Adaptable to change, seeks ways of doing things better, get involved with work that makes a difference, continuously learns new things for personal development
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Commitment:
Relationships for the long-term
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