Law Costs Team Leader

An experienced Law Costs Team Leader is required to join a leading law firm to ensure the team meets its financial and technical objectives, including KPIs and chargeable hours. You will encourage, mentor and develop all members of the team to their maximum potential and continuously improve the quality of the team’s work.

As a law costs draftsman, you will be required to have previous claimant or defendant cost budgeting or drafting experience.

Working Hours – 35-hour week Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

The firm offers hybrid working.

Duties include:

• Plan and distribute workload across the team, paying appropriate attention to individual team member’s current capability, to ensure the timely and profitable completion of cases
• Provide updates and implement the firm’s policies, procedures and local initiatives, including actions arising from audits, to effectively inform and engage staff to perform to the desired standards
• Ensure compliance with benchmarks set by the firm and by clients whilst driving settlement and ensuring quality of delivery
• Provide supervision to team members and progress through the competency framework to achieve a financial authority/increase in financial authority
• Identify and implement appropriate learning activities to ensure the achievement of appropriate authority levels and the ongoing development of all team members
• Manage client finances, controlling FE/PL costs, to ensure that work is delivered profitably, and that cash flow is maximised
• Deliver personal caseload to required company standards and to the fulfilment of personal targets
• Complete projects and process updates to improve current operating practices or to address specific client issues
• Provide an environment where team members feel motivated and deliver excellence
• Effectively deal with complaints through agreed handling processes
• Maximise the personal development of team members, identifying training needs and creation of succession planning
• Provide an environment where team members feel motivated and deliver excellence
• Continuously improve the quality of work in the team, conducting audits as required by administrative policies and procedures, giving feedback to team members and drafting and implementing improvement plans
• Monitor weekly and monthly financial management information of the team and manage the performance of team members against Key Performance Indicators
• Ensure the adherence to, and creation of strategies of claims handling by individual claimant firms – this will include meeting with the Director of Costs and Technical Director to articulate challenges faced and relevant successes
• Prepare for and conduct team meetings, including disseminating information from team leader or departmental meetings to the team
• Manage team members according to the firm’s policies and employment laws and ensure that HR procedures are followed such as appraisals, discipline and grievances

Company benefits:

• 25 days’ annual leave
• Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
• Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
• 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
• Flexible, agile and home working
• BUPA
• Permanent health insurance
• Flexible pension scheme
• Medicash
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Life assurance
• Annual travel season ticket loan
• Dress for your day policy
• Training and development opportunities
• Financial contribution towards home working equipment

To apply, please contact Gemma Clarke at G2 Legal or click on the link.

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