Legal Accounts Assistant
Posted 1 day ago by 1772808959
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Summary: The role of Legal Accounts Assistant involves managing financial transactions and supporting the finance department within a legal context. This position is a full-time, 6-month fixed-term contract with hybrid working arrangements. The successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring bank accounts, preparing bills, and handling various financial queries. Strong attention to detail and interpersonal skills are essential for this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitor client and office bank accounts for incoming payments.
- Send payments upon request from legal advisors.
- Prepare bills to send to external clients.
- Input purchase ledger invoices on to the accounting software.
- Approve and pay staff expenses.
- Respond to ad hoc queries via emails from colleagues and suppliers.
- Ability to draft simple correspondence unsupervised.
- Attention to detail and accuracy with numerical data.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to develop a good rapport with all internal and external clients.
- Team player able to fit into a friendly but busy unit.
- Excellent organisational ability with a friendly but professional attitude.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines particularly at month end and financial year end.
- Confidently produce accounts related documents (ie cheques etc) and related information.
- Ability to respect confidentiality of work carried out.
Key Skills:
- Experience within a Finance department, preferably legal or professional services.
- Experience in Finance software packages.
- Experience in online business banking and associated banking transactions.
- High academics in Maths and English.
- Good communication skills (written and verbal).
- Good IT skills (Microsoft Office, in particular excel).
- Ability to work within a pressurised environment and keep to tight deadlines.
- Confidence and ability to communicate at senior levels and to liaise with all parties both internal and external.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Milton Keynes
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Our client has a Full time vacancy for a Legal Accounts Assistant, working Monday to Friday, 9.00 am to 5.30 pm (37.5 hours per week). This role is offered as a 6 month fixed term contract. It is hybrid working, between 3 -5 days per week in the office as agreed by your manager.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Monitor client and office bank accounts for incoming payments.
Send payments upon request from legal advisors.
Prepare bills to send to external clients.
Input purchase ledger invoices on to the accounting software.
Approve and pay staff expenses.
Respond to ad hoc queries via emails from colleagues and suppliers.
Ability to draft simple correspondence unsupervised.
Attention to detail and accuracy with numerical data.
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to develop a good rapport with all internal and external clients.
Team player able to fit into a friendly but busy unit.
Excellent organisational ability with a friendly but professional attitude.
Ability to work to tight deadlines particularly at month end and financial year end.
Confidently produce accounts related documents (ie cheques etc) and related information.
Ability to respect confidentiality of work carried out.
REQUIREMENTS:
Experience within a Finance department, preferably legal or professional services
Experience in Finance software packages
Experience in online business banking and associated banking transactions
High academics in Maths and English.
Good communication skills (written and verbal).
Good IT skills (Microsoft Office, in particular excel).
Ability to work within a pressurised environment and keep to tight deadlines.
Confidence and ability to communicate at senior levels and to liaise with all parties both internal and external.
Due to the large number of responses we receive it is not always possible to respond to every application straight away. Should your skills and experience be a match for this role, or any other vacancy we may have, we will normally contact you within 72 hours of receiving your application. If you wish to apply for further roles please do so.