Accounts Assistant

2 weeks ago

Peterborough, United Kingdom Taylor Rose MW Full time

Taylor Rose is a Top 60 Law firm with a national footprint across the UK. We are committed to developing our employees and to delivering outstanding service to our customers. Our vision is to continue to deliver #smart #modern #law and to embrace and develop our employees through their career.

We are seeking two immediately available Accounts Assistants to work within our strong finance team for both our consultant programme and for our Direct Services team. This is a reconciliation role, reviewing and processing payments and supporting reporting between the two teams. We are seeking applicants keen to learn and potentially develop within Legal Finance, whilst we offer further learning and development, and potentially longer term opportunities. This role would suit a Finance Graduate with some hands on experience looking for a longer term career path in Finance.

We work Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm, offering 26 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays, Pension, Company Events and a commitment to Training and Development opportunities. We can offer this position as a hybrid role.

Assisting the Accounts Manager to ensure the accounts department runs to a professional standard together and ensuring that the Solicitors Accounts Rules are adhered to in all transactions.

**This role involves but is not limited to**:

- Dealing with deposit accounts
- Dealing with bank reconciliation, expenses, nominal postings and other business account entries/duties
- Checking and entering bills and disbursements and journals
- Posting of credits, debits and transfers to system
- Transferring costs between accounts
- Checking and maintaining cashflow
- Dealing with Counsel’s fees
- Liaising with banks
- Liaising with third parties
- Dealing with general account queries
- Liaising with and carrying out tasks with the auditors
- Petty Cash
- Checking and entry of CHAPS/BACS payments
- Dealing with credit/debit card payments
- Dealing with allocating funds
- Dealing with un-cashed cheques and stopping cheques.
- Month end balancing and management reports
- Archiving and debt recovery
- Opening new files.

**Requirements**:

- Experience of working within a similar role within a Solicitor’s accounts department is desirable.
- Have a good understanding of the accounting system, the banking system and case management systems.
- Full knowledge, experience and understanding of the Solicitors Accounts Rules is required.
- Ability to communicate at all levels and across all departments.
- Ability to work independently and as a team.
- High levels of attention to detail.
- Professional approach

**Company Core Values**:
**Aspire**:To challenge convention, an entrepreneur with energy for change. To be the best we can be.

**Innovate**: To creatively evolve our working practices, use our revenue and resources in a virtuous cycle of improving our people, systems and growth.

**Integrate**: Bring together people and systems into a cohesive force.

**Commit**: To work with integrity and invest in long term relationships, creating a strong market position and delivering sustained commercial advantage.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract, Temp to perm
Contract length: 9 months

Pay: From £24,000.00 per year

**Experience**:

- Accounting: 1 year (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (preferred)

**Location**:

- Peterborough (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Peterborough

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