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Accounts Assistant – Lodders Solicitors LLP
KEY TASK DUTIES:
Management of Office and Client Account Ledgers
- Print off daily bank statements and export previous days
- Complete Bank reconciliations of client and office accounts
- Checking and actioning any posting slips on the practice management system on a timely and regular basis
- Verifying bank details of client payments – matching details against email evidence and verbal verification with fee earners/partners
- Input BACS and TT instructions onto online banking system for authorisation.
- Checking for office and client receipts on the online banking system
- Processing and printing office and client cheques, obtaining signatures from authorised partners
- Calculate interest due to clients on enquiries from fee earners
- Closing client matters on the practice management system
- Transferring and writing off fee earner time
- Processing of cheques received (both client and office) and banking at the local branch.
Other Responsibilities
- Obtain authorisation to pay supplier invoice and input invoices to Purchase Ledger
- Prepare payment run of supplier invoices for onward authorisaiton
- Filing of invoices and daily paperwork
- Processing Petty Cash payments
- Processing credit and debit card payments from client telephone calls
- Preparing staff expenses for payroll and posting costs to the ledgers.
- Preparing the monthly partner credit card statement, posting the expenses to the appropriate accounts
- Actioning email queries from across the firm
- Telephone enquiries
- Assisting Accounts Manager and Finance Director with ad hoc duties
Candidate Experience
- Experience of working in a law firm is essential
- Experience of working in accounts highly desirable
- Numeracy essential
- Ability to manage multiple tasks throughout the day essential
- Polite and courteous telephone manner essential
- Ability to learn new systems (practice management system, banking portals etc) essential
- Professional attitude required for a respected professional service firm
- Accuracy and attention to finer details e.g. checking the postings into correct ledgers with supportive narrative