Trust Administrator

ENGINEERINGUK; Chichester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic law firm as an Administrator in a supportive Tax and Trust Compliance team. This role offers a chance to work closely with senior fee earners, providing essential accounting and tax return support to a diverse clientele. You'll thrive in a friendly environment that values collaboration and integrity, where your contributions will help navigate complex financial landscapes. Enjoy a range of benefits, including generous holiday allowances and flexible working options, while making a real impact in the lives of individuals and businesses. If you are detail-oriented and passionate about delivering high-quality work, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

25 Days Holidays

Generous Pension Schemes

Volunteering Days

Health Membership

Qualifications

• Strong computer skills with proficiency in Word, Excel, and tax software.
• Ability to manage sensitive information and work under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Provide accounting and tax return support to senior fee earners.
• Draft correspondence and manage communications with clients and HMRC.
• Assist with administration duties and client billing processes.

Skills

Computer Skills

Task Management

Administration Management

Handling Confidential Information

Tools

Word Processing Software

Excel

Case Management Systems

Tax Software

Job description

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Sector: Administration and Secretarial
Role: Administrator
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

We're a national law firm with a local reach. Our philosophy is 'we're legal and financial experts that care' - something you'll find in the way we work with our clients and how we support our teams. But we're more than just a law firm - we're a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life's ups and downs. Working here you'll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.

We'll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

Our Team

Our Tax and Trust Compliance team deals with a wide range of work for its high net worth and global UK clients. As part of a dynamic law firm, we work closely with our lawyer colleagues, helping the firm's clients with their tax compliance.

Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

If you enjoy being part of a successful, friendly and high-performing team, then this is the job for you. Working within a tax, trusts and compliance team, this role provides accounting and tax return support to senior fee earners to service a wide variety of clients on personal and/or corporate tax or trusts/estates. The role involves a mix of compliance and advisory services support to the senior fee earners and their clients.

• Drafting correspondence to clients and beneficiaries
• Dealing with phone calls to and from clients and beneficiaries
• Dealing with phone calls to HMRC and investment managers
• Attend client and internal meetings and take notes and actions.
• Generally, provide support and assist with achieving the objectives of the team including client billing.
• Deal with relevant administration duties including photocopying, scanning documents, amending documentation, archiving; filing; file maintenance and opening files.
• Process incoming post and ensuring outgoing post is dealt with efficiently.
• Assist with BD&C activities and arrange training where applicable.

What We're Looking For

• Good computer skills. Ability to use word and excel, case management systems and tax software.
• Handling sensitive and confidential information properly
• Ability to work to tight deadlines, strong task and administration management.
• Ability to provide high quality work in a busy environment.

We're proud of our values, and we're looking for people who share them:

• To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook
• To be approachable and caring
• To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives
• To be efficient in the provision of our services
• To work with a foundation of integrity.

If this sounds like you, we'd love to receive your application.

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can 'buy' up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days - Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you're fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.