Costing Assistant

6 months ago


Bristol, United Kingdom DAS UK Group Full time

**About The Role**:
***

We have a great new opportunity for a Costing Assistant to join DAS Law, providing support to our Legal Costs Team in our Complex Department.

The successful applicant will be required to help ensure the smooth functioning of our office and support our costs lawyers with effective case management. As part of this fast-paced environment, you will thrive under pressure and be able to deliver results within tight deadlines.

In this varied and interesting role you can expect to undertake the following tasks:

- Providing general administrative support to our costing team,
- Collating and drafting billing information for DAS and external payees.
- Checking disbursements on settlement of cases, general housekeeping and paying of disbursements by cheque or bank transfer where required.
- Reviewing of documents to include identifying legally privileged disclosure, redacting and sorting.
- Processing incoming and outgoing post.
- Working with others to deliver on team SLA’s, KPI’s, financial and performance targets to drive efficiency, performance, billing and throughput within the team.

**About You**:
***
- Understanding of day-to-day operations of a legal office;
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office;
- Excellent written, verbal communication skills;
- An ability to juggle multiple activities and work under pressure.
- This is a great development opportunity to join a growing, friendly and supportive team, and as a team we are passionate and enthusiastic about what we do. Our people are encouraged to think independently and to take ownership of their work. You will be agile in the way that you work and adaptable to change. In return for your commitment we will offer you generous remuneration and an attractive benefits package, including:
- 25 days holiday with the option to buy up to a further 5 days
- Company pension scheme with the option to increase contributions
- Group Income Protection for all employees
- Group Legal Protection for all employees
- A choice of either European Motor Assistance or Home Emergency Assistance
- Salary sacrifice benefits including Cycle scheme and season ticket loans
- A comprehensive wellbeing programme including free eye tests
- Access to our employee discounts hub offering exclusive discounts across thousands of retail partners, including discounted gym memberships at over 3,000 gyms across the UK
- The option to join our Sports and Social club which organises discounted events such as theatre visits and shopping trips

**At DAS we fully support flexible working and are happy to discuss flexible working options.**

**About The Company**:
***
- DAS UK Group has been helping businesses and individuals get access to justice for over 40 years. Our businesses include a legal expenses insurance company and a law firm.
- We have historically focussed on delivering legal services to customers solely via our Legal Expenses Insurance products, which provides a steady workload of litigated cases in areas such as;
- Personal Injury
- Litigation & Dispute Management
- Employment
- Business & Commercial

We believe these are exciting times for DAS Law as part of the wider DAS UK Group and we are looking for likeminded individuals who share our ambition to make our high quality legal solutions accessible and affordable. ‘Doing the right thing’ is central to our behaviour - from building trust, being accountable, creating good customer outcomes is at the heart of everything that we do which we believe drives performance.

You can expect to join an organisation that will challenge and develop you to progress your career in ways that traditional law firms cannot. We are also committed to supporting continued professional development and promote both internal Training Contracts and alternative routes to qualification (CILEX).

By giving you every opportunity to develop yourself professionally and personally, we also pride ourselves on having an open, inclusive and high energy culture that encourages a fun working environment and places our customers at the very heart of everything we do.

If you are keen to become part of our exciting future then we would love to hear from you. In addition to the very genuine development opportunities we provide we also offer a generous reward and benefits package.



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