Finance Support Assistant
Are you keen to find an exciting new role where you will be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking agile team? If so, come and join us on the journey.
Why Michelmores? Michelmores is the destination law firm for the ambitious, the imaginative and the distinctive. We help enterprises and individuals navigate change to find a positive future.
We are a flexible, friendly and inclusive organisation with a clear focus on fresh thinking, growth and success. We value and nurture our people’s potential and inspiration and give them a creative, open and collaborative environment in which to develop a career and succeed.
As a firm we strive to be more understanding, more flexible and less prescriptive about how we enable our people to succeed in their roles. Central to our culture is our nurturing, friendly and flexible environment which genuinely allows our people to grow and flourish.
We’re always thinking about how we can improve what we do, moving forward, together. From day one we encourage people to believe that there’s no such thing as a bad idea and creativity and innovation is highly prized throughout the Firm.
What sort of work? We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Support Assistant to join our Private Client group in our Exeter or Cheltenham office.
In this role you will support the Residential Property and Private Property Landed Estates conveyancing teams in delivering a first-class service to clients, focusing on the "financial hygiene" of matters and making sure we are complying with the various regulatory requirements.
This will include:
- Managing financial reports and assisting with financial payments and billing.
- Working closely with our Practice Management System to create client invoices, process internal client to client transfers, BACs/CHAPS payments.
- Drafting and/or checking completion statements.
- Reconciliation of client ledgers and processing expense claims.
- Understanding the obligations relating to client accounts and ensure that the preparation and service of bills complies with Solicitors Accounts Rules.
Most people in the team choose to work 2-3 days a week in the office, with the balance of time spent working from home. We pride ourselves on our high-performance culture whilst offering a good work/life balance.
As a Firm we are committed to supporting our people across all levels to achieve the balance they need. We are open to talking about flexible working and empower any candidate to put forward a flexible working pattern to meet their needs.
Who are we looking for? We are looking for somebody who will understand our values and thrive in our culture. The role is based in our Exeter or Cheltenham office and the ideal candidate will have:
- Experience of working in a client facing role.
- Demonstrable experience of consistently delivering exceptional customer service standards.
- A minimum of 18 months experience in residential/ financial property legal sector work and knowledge of practical application of Solicitors Accounts Rules and compliance Accountancy qualification is desirable.
- Excellent IT skills with advanced MS Office skills, including specialist knowledge of Excel.
Other skills required include:
- Enthusiastic, friendly team player with the ability to work under own initiative.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- A commercial, pro-active and professional approach to work.
- Excellent organisational skills, demonstrable methodical approach towards workloads.
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and deadlines in a flexible and proactive way.
- Effective problem solving and good negotiation skills.
- Excellent communication skills at all levels (written and verbal).
- Good analytical skills.
This is a great opportunity to join a Firm which believes potential, inspiration, and teamwork should be valued and nurtured.
We work hard to create and sustain an open and collaborative environment. We embrace change and constantly evolve to meet our people’s diverse needs, in the same way that we help our clients to navigate and stay ahead of developments, to move forward together.
Next Steps To apply please click below or if you would like to talk to someone about the role, please call Lisa Gater, Recruitment Business Partner, on 07355 677986.
Michelmores LLP is an Equal Opportunities Employer
We do not discriminate on grounds of race, gender, marital status, age, religion, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or sexual orientation in the selection, recruitment and treatment of our staff.
View our Inclusion and Belonging pages for more information.- No agencies please – any agency assistance will be via invitation only. Please note any speculative candidates submitted via agencies without invitation will not be considered as represented by that agent.