Accounts Assistant - Holmes & Hills : Job Details

The Role

We are currently looking for someone to join our busy Accounts team based in our Marks Tey office as Accounts Assistant (Legal Cashier). In this role you will work alongside two experienced team members who will provide you with on-the-job training, so you are able to work with high volume and provide a high quality and timely service to our fee earning teams and ultimately our clients. You will deal with various accounting duties in accordance with the SRA Accounts Rules and Code of Conduct.The day to day will include:

• Posting Client Bank Monies in
• Cheque requests printing
• Cheque received (Paying In) posting and reconcile to incoming branch cheque lists.
• Assisting and covering Time write offs (In absence of other legal cashiers)
• Posting Queues = GEVU’s
• Verifying bank details
• Taking card payments from clients
• Month End scanning
• End of day BACS / FPN Run (Once trained will complete this task independently)
• Eventually train to process completions

WHAT EXPERIENCE DO I NEED?

• Accounts experience
• Dealing with client monies
• AAT Qualified or working towards it
• Confidently able to use excel
• Accounts experience from within the legal or professional services sector would be an advantage

WHAT SKILLS SHOULD I HAVE?

• Attention to detail
• Team Player
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Must be accurate with work
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure.
• Awareness of deadlines and timescales
• IT literate, Word, Outlook and Excel.

WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?

• A supportive and relaxed work environment in an experienced and growing team - with a real opportunity to positively impact our recruitment strategy.
• 28 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Medicash and Unum dental cash back schemes after 1 years’ service
• Life Insurance
• EAP and various other physical and mental wellbeing support services including virtual GP access 24/7
• Family friendly policies such as enhanced maternity and paternity pay plus, family events leave
• Company sick pay
• Cycle scheme

At Holmes & Hills we are proud to have a culture of sharing, collaboration and mutual respect. We are genuine, authentic and down to earth. We are passionate about what we do and how we do it and believe our Values demonstrate the quality and commitment we give to our many clients. These values run through the core of our firm and are fundamental to the development and progression of our 200 highly valued colleagues. We offer a benefits package that we believe gives all of our colleagues a bit of everything but in addition to these material benefits, we also offer the opportunity to work for a progressive, modern and inspiring law firm in a regional area that brings with it, the benefit of a good work/life balance, flexibility and family focussed and with genuine opportunity to progress and develop evidenced by our commitment to our Career Pathway and Training Pathway.

Working in partnership with businesses and individuals

Holmes & Hills' large team of legal experts work in partnership with individuals and organisations to provide them with truly proactive legal services through personal relationships. Acting as a trusted advisor to clients, we take the time to understand clients' needs and objectives before delivering practical advice through a personal and accessible approach.