Accounts Assistant

The Role

Department : Finance

Location: Guildford

Role: Accounts Assistant

Working Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00 - 5.30pm

Hybrid Working: 2 days in the office, 3 days from home

The Role

The Accounts Assistant works with the UK Client Accounting team based in Guildford consisting of 6 Legal Cashiers, 2 Senior Legal Cashier and reporting to the Legal Cashier Team Leader. The accounts assistant provides administrative support and is a vital member of the team.

The team maintains client and office accounts where transactions are subject to very strict regulatory rules as required by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority. Great attention to detail at all times is essential ensuring that all financial activities are recorded in accordance with the Solicitors Accounts Rules so this role would suit a candidate that has excellent attention to detail, capable of prioritising activities and liaising internally and externally with stakeholders at all levels.

Key Responsibilities

• Daily download of UK Client and Office bank accounts.
• Record and identify new client receipts as to which practice area they relate to for passing to the relevant Legal Cashier and keeping a log of the same.
• Record and identify new office receipts, maintaining a register of receipts and recording of office receipts against Debtors ledger within the firms accounting system, Elite 3E.
• Reconciliation of suspense accounts ensuring that unidentified receipts are returned promptly.
• Reconciliation of unplaced receipts ledger.
• Bank reconciliations as holiday cover.
• Ad hoc projects for Legal Cashier Team Leader and Client Money & Financial Compliance Manager.
  
  

Essential Skills And Experience

• Strong Excel skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Willingness to communicate with senior people internally and externally
• Posses strong time management skills and the ability to prioritise key tasks
• Working knowledge of Elite 3E advantageous but not essential as training will be provided
• Working knowledge of Solicitors Accounts Rules advantageous but not essential as training will be provided
  
  

When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 490 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.

We offer a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning and wellbeing initiatives.

Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our core values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity.

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