Role – Legal Accounts Assistant / Legal Cashier
Location – Milton Keynes - Hybrid may be considered
Salary - £30K - £50K- dependent on experience.
Hours – Full-Time - (Flexible hours may be possible)
MUST HAVE EXTENSIVE LEGAL ACCOUNTS EXPERIENCE – otherwise do not apply
Our Client is a growing Conveyancing Firm with offices in Central Milton Keynes.
They pride themselves in providing a personal approach to their Clients. 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 a new Legal Accounts Manager, managing an experienced Accounts Assistant and reporting to the Directors.
Profile: 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 to enhance their current Accounts knowledge. Ideally you will have experience of Quill software – if not please confirm which Accounts Software you have experience of.
Job Purpose - To ensure that all aspects of the firm’s Accounts processes are dealt with promptly and efficiently, whilst managing / mentoring the existing Accounts Assistant.
Key Duties:
- Develop a very good understanding of the Firm’s Legal accounts software
- Ensure Solicitors accounts rules are adhered to on a daily basis
3. Responsible for the following:
- Processing Conveyancing monies – both in & out
- Process daily reconciliations
- Process end of month Payroll
- Processing Invoices
- 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
- To understand and operate the Company’s procedures to avoid fraud or negligence and improve performance standards.
- From time to time, as required it may be necessary to carry out extra duties in addition to those listed above.
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