Finance Assistant Apprentice in Northampton

Location: Northampton

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: Shoosmiths

Job Hours: Full-time

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The firm

Shoosmiths is the law firm clients choose for excellent service, incisive thinking and above all for our ability to focus on what matters. From offices across the UK and Brussels, we support some of the world’s most exciting and ambitious businesses; amazing clients making an impact. We empower our people to be their authentic selves and deliver together in supportive teams committed to excellence and innovation. The first top 50 law firm to achieve ‘Platinum Standard’ Investors in People, our values and culture are not just words on our website but are the heartbeat of the firm.

We have an outstanding benefits package to complement our competitive remuneration system. In addition to the competitive salaries, great working environment and high-quality work, we believe that all staff should be rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of the firm through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

To discover more about our benefits, please visit: Benefits Package

The team

Our finance team are committed to providing an efficient and accurate service to our legal advisors and to other support functions. At the centre of this is ensuring that the client and office accounts are kept up to date and invoices are produced accurately and in a timely manner.

The role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an apprentice to join our Finance team in Northampton. This is an excellent opportunity for someone to broaden their finance knowledge and gain new skills. You will need to have excellent communication skills, a keen eye for detail, flexibility, able to manage your own workload within tight deadlines.

Main responsibilities

General:

To understand and ensure compliance with the Accounts Rules in relation to all tasks.

To avoid any breaches of the Accounts Rules.

To ensure that client and office accounts are kept up to date accurately.

To be approachable/flexible and keen to learn

Key areas:

Client & Office account transactions:

To process proformas and produce all types of bills (Individual, Multi matter bulk bills)

To assist in the processing and input of information from spreadsheets for bill production

To action K2 bills and queries

To work as part of a larger team ensuring bills are produced accurately and in a timely manner

Post fees and other charges daily

To liaise with other cashiering staff regarding other, dependant transactions

To respond to accounting queries

To carry out any transfers i.e., client to client, matter to matter, client to bill, client to disbursement and disbursement to disbursements in accordance with Shoosmiths policies.

General Duties:

To ensure work is handed out to the team promptly.

To understand and ensure compliance with the Accounts Rules in relation to all tasks.

Be proactive within the Finance team and be willing to make suggestions where they feel they will make more efficient processes.

Ensure that any problems are appropriately communicated to your Finance Manager and/or team and Legal Advisors promptly.

To help the ‘Lead Cashier’ when required.

Skills and qualifications

Positive with can do attitude

Excellent attention to detail and accuracy

Good level of IT literacy ie Excel, Outlook etc

Ability to adapt and maintain high standards

Organised with a neat and tidy approach to working practices

Reliability, friendly and helpful approach

Have a flexible approach to working practices

Ability to work as part of a small local team but also the bigger Finance team

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About Shoosmiths

shoosmiths.co.uk

We’re the law firm clients choose for excellent service, incisive thinking and above all for our ability to focus on what matters.

From offices across the UK and Brussels, we support some of the world’s most exciting and ambitious businesses; amazing clients making an impact.

We empower our people to be their authentic selves and deliver together in supportive teams committed to excellence and innovation.

We’ve won prestigious industry awards, such as ‘Law Firm of the Year’ at the Legal Business Awards 2022, ‘Legal Team of the Year’ at the Estates Gazette Awards 2022 and have been recognised for being the most active law firm advising on corporate transactions across the UK (Experian, 2022).

Our innovative approach is also embodied in our non-legal solutions for clients, which complement our technical legal expertise.

We also believe in supporting the communities in which we operate, and are firmly on our ESG journey, with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) validating near-term science-based emissions reduction targets, and launching our grant-making body ‘The Shoosmiths Foundation’.