Accounts Assistant - Bournemouth, United Kingdom - Lester Aldridge

Lester Aldridge

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Bournemouth, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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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.

We also offer career development.

Lester Aldridge is committed to being an equal opportunities employer.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE