Finance Assistant

Experience level:
- Entry level- Term:
- Contract- Duration:
- 1 year- Working hours:
- Full-time- Practice area:
- Finance- Location:
- Guildford- The RoleThe Finance Assistant will work within a Finance team of fourteen and will initially be involved with aspects of office and client accounting. They will report to the Finance Manager.

The job will consist of the following tasks:

- Bank Reconciliations - daily
- Logging incoming cheques and preparing paperwork for banking
- Processing cheques for both office and client bank accounts
- Processing client bank payments
- Processing invoices
- Monitoring bank transactions and posting transactions to the bank account and matter ledgers
- General ad-hoc support to legal departments
- Registering/chasing VAT invoices relating to Disbursements
- Processing corporate card expenses
- Qualifications and Experience- Previous finance experience within a professional services environment and 3E Practice Management System would be ideal, but not essential
- A minimum of 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and maths GCSE at Grade C/4 and above
- Knowledge and experience of using Outlook, Word & Excel
- Good numerical skills
- Excellent English and grammar
- Proven ability to learn new IT systems, internal processes and procedures

**Personal attributes**
- Resilient and calm with a confident and professional demeanour
- Good interpersonal and communication skills are essential
- Proven ability to demonstrate effective time management skills and the ability to prioritise a varied workload appropriately
- Proactive and self-motivated, demonstrating the ability to use initiative
- Self-driven to learn and develop knowledge and understanding of processes and procedures
- Proven ability to be a team player
- Excellent organisation and administration skills
- Proven experience of being adapt to cultural requirements and to embrace ambiguity and flexibility.
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail
- The Opportunity- Competitive base salary
- Pensions Scheme (5% employer contribution)
- Private medical insurance
- Permanent health insurance
- Life assurance
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay (after sufficient service)
- Comprehensive flexible benefits package including:

- Critical illness insurance
- Buy/Sell holiday scheme
- Dental insurance

Core hours are 09:00 - 17:30
- The FirmStevens & Bolton - making a positive difference to your career

Stevens & Bolton is a UK law firm with over 250 staff. Of those around 150 are lawyers, approximately a third of them partners, many of whom chose to join us from City law firms. Our office is based in Guildford and our staff work from here and also flexibly.

We’ve made excellence the hallmark of our firm: in the clear advice we give, in the enduring client relationships we build and in our proactive and highly responsive service. We seek to recruit people who will help us maintain and build on this, and in return we offer excellent long-term career and development opportunities.

You’ll work with people who listen, and who actively and willingly support one another within a collaborative and engaging environment. We genuinely care about our people and strive to build and maintain a diverse, inclusive and happy workforce.

We have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion (D&I). This drives a strategy which focuses on constant promotion of an inclusive culture that encourages everyone to realise their full potential and be themselves at work. In 2020 we were shortlisted for “Best D&I Initiative” at The HR Awards and for “Best Talent and Inclusion Initiative” at The Lawyer Awards.

Our vision is to be one of the UK’s most successful law firms, offering excellence beyond the city, a supportive culture and the best client experience. Always making a positive difference. We were proud to be named Law Firm of the Year: The Independents at The Lawyer Awards 2020.