Accounts Assistant

Do you have experience working in the accounts department of a law firm?

Or do you have experience of debt collection and willing to train to become a Legal Cashier?

Then please read on....

Working 35 hours a week 9 -5 Monday to Friday with an hour for lunch, you will be supporting the Finance Supervisor with the activities associated within legal services.

Your main focus will be credit control and debt recovery - namely contacting clients by telephone and email to discuss payments of outstanding fees and making arrangements to do so in full or a arrange a payment plan.

And then taking payments over the phone etc..

Once trained (if not already experienced) your role you duties will be to cover daily, weekly monthly and yearly activities such as:

Daily:

• processing client invoices
• monitoring bank accounts for monies in and out
• assigning monies to appropriate clients and matters
• processing cheques and electronic transfers
• dealing with elements of disbursements
• taking payments from clients face-to-face and on the telephone
• liaising with external parties such as accountants, bankers, Land Registry, etc.

Weekly:
* processing expenses claims
* processing aged debt initial stage reminder letters and assisting with telephone calls to debtors
* aged debt

Monthly:

• dealing with monthly statements from suppliers

Annually:

• assisting in year-end preparation

Benefits

• 20 days annual leave + 8 public holidays - rising with length of service
• company pension scheme
• death in service policy
• paid for eye tests etc
• social events

Randstad Business Support acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Business Support is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.