An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Accounts Executive to join my clients team on a Hybrid basis in their Hull offices.

About The Role

My client are an award winning law firm who are seeking an enthusiastic individual with strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with their team.

Communication is key for this position, so it is paramount the successful candidate can communicate verbally and in writing, with the ability to prioritise their workload and meet the set deadlines.

Key Responsibilities:

- Undertaking legal cashier duties, including allocating all bank receipts, reviewing, and setting up on various electronic banking products CHAPS, BACS, and faster payment.
- Processing accounting transactions to the financial management system.
- Office, client and inter account payment and receipt transactions.
- Performing daily Bank Reconciliations.
- Preparation of Client and Firm bank account, firm credit card and other control account reconciliations both weekly and monthly.
- Run various reports regarding client balances and disbursements, analyse and rectify any issues occurring from these reports.
- Processing and payment of employee expenses.
- Print off any cheque request for file handlers.
- Daily Banking of all cheques/cash coming into the firm.
- Check all purchase invoices received into the firm, post onto the system, distribute to the relevant people to sign off and pay when due.
- Archive files from Proclaim on a weekly basis and transfer file to Costs Waiting.
- Deal with any Legal Aid monies coming in.
- Reporting any identified breaches of the SRA Accounts Rules to the Account Manager and ensuring they are accurately recorded in the COFA breaches log.
- Responsible for dealing with any interest clients have incurred whilst holding of their funds over a specified amount of time stated in the SRA accounts rules

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and bonus scheme.
- Generous holiday entitlement.
- Hybrid and flexible working options.
- Supportive, approachable and friendly working environment.
- Ongoing professional development and training opportunities.
- Range of benefits, including pension, health cash plan, discounted gym membership and more.

Should you have any questions or wish to apply please do not hesitate to contact Clear Legal and Financial Recruitment.

Please Note: Due to the number of applications we receive we may be unable to respond to every application directly. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.