Legal Accounts Assistant – Full Time

Skillframe Limited; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established firm of Solicitors in the Surbiton area is seeking a Full-Time Accounts Assistant to join their busy accounts team. The successful candidate will be responsible for compliance procedures, bank payments, and supporting the accounts department. This role requires prior experience in legal accounting and a sound understanding of relevant legislation.

Qualifications

• Experience in the accounts department of a solicitors’ office required.
• Understanding of compliance and legal frameworks is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Managing compliance queries including proof and source of funding.
• Running credit control procedures regularly.
• Handling file opening and closing processes.

Skills

Knowledge of accounting legal processes

Anti-money laundering legislation

Reconciliation

File handling

ID and compliance procedures

Job description

Full-Time Accounts Assistant

Required to work within an established and busy firm of Solicitors

Our client is a well established firm of Solicitors with over twenty staff including Solicitors and support staff. The firm covers, Litigation and Family, Private Client, Residential Conveyancing and Commercial sectors and they hold ISO 9001:2015 accreditation with Lawnet (a quality standard similar to Lexcel).

Their accounts team currently consists of an Accounts Manager and Accounts Assistant and they are seeking an Accounts Assistant to join their friendly te=am.

The suitable applicant will have experience of working in the accounts department of a busy solicitors’ office, knowledge of the accounting legal processes and compliance.

The tasks undertaken and the skills required for this position are as follows:

• Dealing with file opening
• ID and compliance procedures and queries, to include proof and source of funding
• Full knowledge of anti-money laundering legislation required
• Dealing with payments out of client account and receipts in
• Inputting bank payments
• Reconciling and identifying amounts received
• Dealing with client to office transfers
• Dealing with HMLR / Searchflow statements and payments
• Running credit control procedures on a regular basis
• Dealing with fee earner queries
• Providing cover in accounts for absence and holidays
• File closing

The hours of work are 37.5 per week, between 9.00 am and 5.30 pm with one hour for lunch.

Salary dependent on experience.

Surbiton Area