Accounts Assistant

Job Purpose: Subject to reporting to and instruction from the Accounts Manager, responsibility for administering office and client accounts, responsibility for ensuring compliance with Solicitors Accounts Rules.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Accounts

1. Responsibility for ensuring timely and accurate accounting function in relation to:

Postings
Bills and abatements
Bills and disbursement write offs
Client inwards payments
Client outwards payments
Office inwards payments
Office outwards payments
Journal transfers
Bank transfers
Sums in lieu of interest
Merchant services (PDQ)
Bank lodgments
Petty cash
Designated deposit accounts
Foreign bank transfers
Internet banking transfers (CHAPS/BACS)
Rectifying client accounts being overdrawn
Rectifying office accounts being in credit
Client to office transfers
Reconciling postings to lodgment
Unpaid billing disbursements
Responsibility for administration of expenses
Credit Control
Purchase Ledger
Land Registry Account
Search Company Accounts

2. Responsibility for filing in relation to the accounts department

3. Responsibility for archiving in relation to the accounts department

4. Dealing with out of date cheques

5. Responsibility for dealing with accounts software queries

6. Responsibility for accounts stationary

Office Angels is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.