Costs Assistant

3 days ago

Wakefield, United Kingdom Minster Law Full time

**This is a fantastic opportunity to join a top 100 law firm based in Wakefield. We are looking to hire Serious Injury Cost Assistant to join our Serious Injury team.**

**About us**

Minster Law Solicitors is wholly owned by BHL UK Ltd, a UK subsidiary of BHL, a highly successful, cash generative and profitable international Insurance Services Group. Established in 2006, Minster Law is one of the UK’s leading personal injury claims providers to the motor insurance market. As well as personal injury, we also offer advice to clients in relation to employment, consumer and property disputes.

**Our values**

When you join the team here at Minster, you will be joining an Investor’s in People Platinum accredited organisation, which demonstrates our commitment to high performance through great people and a strong company culture that focuses on trust, respect, openness and inclusion. Our values are ‘stand together’, ‘be courageous’ and ‘find a way’ and this embodies everything we do.

**How we work**

We encourage and support agile working to allow our colleagues to get the best out of their day. As long as we continue to ensure that our customers, partners, business and colleagues needs are met, we believe colleagues can work where they feel will be most productive - at home, in the office or other suitable venue. By allowing our colleagues the ability to work in an agile environment, we believe this encourages and creates a more fluid approach to how we work, to stimulate productivity, creativity and engagement.

**Our Benefits**

We also offer great benefits at Minster so we can reward our colleagues for the great work they do and to say thank you. This includes a generous bonus scheme, matched pension scheme, insurance benefits, health and wellbeing support, discounts, regular reward incentives, study sponsorship and great social events.

**Giving Back (CSR)**

Being able to support our local communities is important to us and is a key part of who we are. We have a strong Corporate Social Responsibility agenda and a host of activities to support this. This includes working with charities and groups that help to improve the lives in our local communities. This commitment to improving and supporting our local communities is embedded into our working lives so much that we actively encourage our colleagues to spend one day a year volunteering by giving them a day off.

**The Role**

To provide an internal administrative support service to our serious injury teams, in relation to progressing cases post settlement. The Serious Injury Costs team deal with the administrative aspects of liaising with cost supplier to ensure case progression, billing and processing of all monies, sales reserve management, recovery of fees on cases and administration of all tasks arising from our internal Billing Governance Process, to drive efficient collection of fees and the closure of cases.

The team will be collectively responsible for delivery of internal service level agreements set up to support with achieving overall business objectives.
- Liaising with Cost Draftsman to maintain healthy relationships
- Managing key stakeholders such as file handlers, leadership and finance colleagues.
- Ensuring of progressing of cases in line with internal SLA’s and civil procedure rules
- Processing of all damages and costs payments including processing of disbursements and payment activity
- Proactively pursue outstanding costs and where required, commencing costs enforcement procedures
- Data interrogation, numeracy reconciliation and ability to use Microsoft Office.
- Comply with internal processes to ensure that SRA Accountancy Rules are adhered too.

**Person Specification**
- Proven experience of working within an administrative/finance role.
- Excellent MS Word and Excel skills.
- The ability to interpret, analyse and process complex information in both written and numerical format.
- Organisational skills to a high standard.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to negotiate and influence outcomes.
- Ability to perform to a high level in a fast paced, large volume turnover environment.
- Being able to use own initiative in order to prioritise workloads and deadlines
- Previous experience of Proclaim desirable but full training will be given
- Previous experience of working in a personal injury or costs administration role is desirable but full training will be given

**Salary**

£19,000 - £20,200 per annum

**How to apply**

If you would like more information about this role, please contact our Careers Team through the website.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £19,000.00-£20,200.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Store discount
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Work Location: One location

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