Overview
Legal Accounts Assistant Jobs in Surbiton, England, UK at Skillframe Ltd
Location: Surbiton
Full-Time Accounts Assistant
Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.
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
* 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 / Search flow 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
Title: Legal Accounts Assistant
Company: Skillframe Ltd
Location: Surbiton, England, UK
Category: Law/Legal, Accounting (Accounting Assistant)
