Accounts Assistant

Southerns Solicitors Limited; Burnley; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Accounts Assistant to join Southerns Solicitors Limited in Burnley. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in supporting daily accounting processes, maintaining client disbursements, and assisting with billing. We seek a proactive individual who can thrive in a friendly and expanding team environment.

Qualifications

• Motivated individual with a proactive approach.
• Ability to manage day-to-day accounting tasks effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support the accounts department in daily accounting activities.
• Maintain client related disbursements and assist with Legal Aid submissions.
• Provide billing support to fee-earners and process expense claims.

Skills

Proactivity

Attention to detail

Communication

Job description

Due to continued growth, we are expanding our accounts department and currently have a full-time vacancy for an Accounts Assistant.

This is a great opportunity to join a well-established team and be part of Southerns Solicitors as we continue to grow.

Commensurate with experience – No Agencies.

Location

Burnley

About the role

Due to continued growth we are expanding our accounts department and have a vacancy for a full time Accounts Assistant to assist with:

• Supporting the accounts department to deal with all day to day accounting,
• Maintaining all client related disbursements, posting to the case management system and raising payments.
• Petty cash – receiving requests for money and ensuring entered onto petty cashbook, balancing each month within the case management system.
• Exporting Legal Aid claims from the case management system, uploading to Legal Aid portal
• Checking/approving Legal Aid bills
• Dealing with basic accounts queries from staff, suppliers and others.
• Paying in cheques and cash,
• Checking office/client account throughout the day, posting, raising and approving payments
• Providing billing support to the fee-earners
• Processing write off requests
• Logging InfoTrack/Land Registry searches
• Checking and posting of firm’s client bills
• Internal ledger transfers
• Taking card payments
• Processing expense claims
• Assisting with internal reporting

Why this role

This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive, motivated individual to join a friendly and expanding team.

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