Finance Assistant

at  Stevens Bolton

Term:

Temporary
Duration:

1 year
Working hours:

Full-time
Practice area:
Finance
Location:

Guildford
The Role
The Finance Assistant will work within a Finance team of eleven and will initially be involved with aspects of general office and client accounting. They will report to the Finance Supervisor.

The job will consist of the following tasks:

• Bank Reconciliations – daily and monthly
• Logging incoming cheques and preparing paperwork for banking
• Processing cheques for both office and client bank accounts
• Processing client and office bank payments
• Processing invoices
• Monitoring bank transactions and posting transactions to the bank account and matter ledgers
• Ensure SRA compliance is adhered to through the correct movement of office and client funds
• General ad-hoc support to legal departments
• Processing monthly expenses
• Managing and processing corporate cards

Qualifications and Experience

• Previous experience in a similar role within a professional services environment is essential
• 3E Practice Management System experience would be ideal, but not essential
• A minimum of 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and maths GCSE at Grade C/4 and above
• Knowledge and experience of using Outlook, Word & Excel
• Good numerical skills
• Excellent English and grammar
• Proven ability to learn new IT systems, internal processes and procedures

• Bank Reconciliations – daily and monthly
• Logging incoming cheques and preparing paperwork for banking
• Processing cheques for both office and client bank accounts
• Processing client and office bank payments
• Processing invoices
• Monitoring bank transactions and posting transactions to the bank account and matter ledgers
• Ensure SRA compliance is adhered to through the correct movement of office and client funds
• General ad-hoc support to legal departments
• Processing monthly expenses
• Managing and processing corporate card