Finance Support Assistant (Real Estate)

Michelmores; Exeter; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm is seeking a Finance Support Assistant to join their Real Estate Group in Exeter. The role involves supporting client interactions, ensuring compliance, and assisting with financial tasks. Ideal candidates will have strong administrative and IT skills and a proactive approach to team collaboration. This is an opportunity for growth in a flexible and nurturing environment.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a client-facing role.
• Demonstrable ability to juggle competing priorities.
• Experience in residential/financial property legal sector work is desirable.
• Excellent IT skills with advanced MS Office skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the Business Manager and Real Estate team.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Assist with client account balances and file closures.
• Support credit control and cash collection.

Skills

Client-facing experience

Excellent administrative skills

Exceptional customer service

Advanced MS Office skills

Attention to detail

Job description

Are you keen to find an exciting new role where you will be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking agile team? If so, come and join us on the journey.

Why Michelmores?Michelmores is the destination law firm for the ambitious, the imaginative and the distinctive. We help enterprises and individuals navigate change to find a positive future.

We are a flexible, friendly and inclusive organisation with a clear focus on fresh thinking, growth and success. We value and nurture our people’s potential and inspiration and give them a creative, open and collaborative environment in which to develop a career and succeed.

As a firm we strive to be more understanding, more flexible and less prescriptive about how we enable our people to succeed in their roles. Central to our culture is our nurturing, friendly and flexible environment which genuinely allows our people to grow and flourish.

We’re always thinking about how we can improve what we do, moving forward, together. From day one we encourage people to believe that there’s no such thing as a bad idea and creativity and innovation is highly prized throughout the Firm.

What sort of work?We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Support Assistant to join our Real Estate Group in our Exeter office.

In this role you will support the Business Manager and the Real Estate team in delivering a first-class service to clients, focusing on the "financial hygiene" of matters and making sure we are complying with the various regulatory requirements.

This will include:

• Assisting the Business Manager with checking correct rates are being set on client files, checking fee estimates are being uploaded and updated in the system, circulating and monitoring matter reports and assisting with circulating weekly/monthly/quarterly reports.
• Assisting our support staff with actioning matter report reviews, reviewing and actioning aged client account balances and assisting with file closures.
• Supporting credit control with day-to-day duties to assist with maximising our cash collection.

How do we work?We take a flexible, agile approach to working patterns. As a team we agree together on the best working arrangements that will enable each of us to provide exceptional client service, to collaborate and connect with colleagues, and to achieve the right home/work balance.

As a Firm we are committed to supporting our people across all levels to achieve the balance they need. We are open to talking about flexible working and empower any candidate to put forward a flexible working pattern to meet their needs.

Who are we looking for?We are looking for somebody who will understand our values and thrive in our culture. The role is based in our Exeter office and the ideal candidate will have:

• Experience of working in a client facing role.
• Excellent administrative skills, demonstrable examples of multi-tasking and an ability to juggle competing and changing priorities
• Demonstrable experience of consistently delivering exceptional customer service standards.
• Experience in residential/ financial property legal sector work is desirable
• Excellent IT skills with advanced MS Office skills, including specialist knowledge of Excel.

Other skills required include:

• Enthusiastic, friendly team player with the ability to work under own initiative.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• A commercial, pro-active and professional approach to work.
• Excellent organisational skills, demonstrable methodical approach towards workloads.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and deadlines in a flexible and proactive way.
• Effective problem solving and good negotiation skills.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels (written and verbal).
• Good analytical skills.

This is a great opportunity to join a Firm which believes potential, inspiration, and teamwork should be valued and nurtured.

We work hard to create and sustain an open and collaborative environment. We embrace change and constantly evolve to meet our people’s diverse needs, in the same way that we help our clients to navigate and stay ahead of developments, to move forward together.

Next Steps

To apply please click below or if you would like to talk to someone about the role, please call Sarah McLean, Recruitment Specialist, on 07754 555106.

Michelmores LLP is an Equal Opportunities Employer

We do not discriminate on grounds of race, gender, marital status, age, religion, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or sexual orientation in the selection, recruitment and treatment of our staff.

View ourInclusion and Belonging pagesfor more information.

As part of our recruitment policy our candidates are subject to pre-employment screening checks. The Employee Screening Process includes DBS screening, adverse media checks, financial screening, and will also involve verification of employment history, your right to work in the UK and any relevant qualifications and memberships. If you would like further information around this, at this stage, please get in touch with our recruitment team ([e-mail])

*No agencies please – any agency assistance will be via invitation only. Please note any speculative candidates submitted via agencies without invitation will not be considered as represented by that agent.