Finance Assistant

A specialist law firm is looking for a Finance Assistant to join their Finance department. Your main responsibility will be to assist the Finance team with reconciling invoices, preparing bank balances. You will be expected to have a great deal of organisation skills along with excellent communication skills and the confidence to deal with external and internal clients.

Key responsibilities: -

• Reconciling invoices and supplier statements and entering onto the finance system
• Processing a weekly payment run, in line with the terms agreed with suppliers and the firm's set procedures
• Processing and pre-approving staff expenses and raising a fortnightly payment run
• Check and process CHAPS, BACS, FP and international payments from office and client accounts as required
• Month end bank reconciliations of multicurrency office accounts
• Assist with compiling monthly and weekly budgets and projections
• General office admin, including distribution of mail and filing
• Assisting Senior Finance Assistant with various other day to day tasks
• Assisting with staff queries on time recording and expenses applications

Key requirements: -

• Previous legal finance experience essential
• Knowledge of the SARs
• Genuine interest in business and finance
• Ability to work to strict deadlines, especially at month/year end, balancing conflicting demands
• Adept at working independently and as part of a team
• Experience of Aderant Expert preferred.

If you fit the above description and are interested in this role, please apply with your updated CV.