Job description
Full-Time Accounts Assistant

Kenneth Brian Associates are looking for as Accounts Assistant for an established firm of Solicitors, having five Partners and over twenty support staff including Solicitors.

The team: The accounts team currently consists of an Accounts Manager and Accounts Assistant.

The role: The suitable applicant will have experience of working in the accounts department of a busy solicitors’ office, knowledge of the accounting legal processes and compliance.

The tasks undertaken and the skills required for this position are as follows:
• Dealing with file opening
• ID and compliance procedures and queries
• Full knowledge of anti-money laundering legislation required
• Dealing with payments out of client account and receipts in
• Inputting bank payments
• Reconciling and identifying amounts received
• Dealing with client to office transfers
• Dealing with HMLR / Searchflow statements and payments
• Running credit control procedures on a regular basis
• Dealing with fee earner queries
• Providing cover in accounts for absence and holidays
• File closing
• Other administration duties (to provide support to Office Manager where necessary)

The hours of work are 37.5 per week generally between 9.00 am and 5.30 pm with one hour for lunch.

Salary dependent on experience.