Job Vacancy
Due to maternity cover, we are looking for recruit a Client Accounts Assistant to join a friendly team of 5 in our Marks Tey office. The duration of this contract will be until June 2027.
The day to day will include:
WHAT EXPERIENCE DO I NEED?
WHAT SKILLS SHOULD I HAVE?
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?
At Holmes & Hills we enjoy a collaborative, open plan, modern workspace with plenty of working pods and breakout areas. We arrange regular networking and social events and hold all-office get togethers at least twice a year.
Our benefits package is made up of benefits including access to an employee assistance programme, virtual GP access 24/7, death in service, a retail discount platform and optional medical insurance policies at group discount rates. After 1 years’ service employees automatically receive Medicash (a health cash-back scheme)
The day to day will include:
- New Build Completions
- Coggeshall and Tiptree completions
- Client Bank Rec on Wed / Fri.
- Posting bills for the above + Planning/CPOD
- Land Registry - Post Daily Invoice – holiday cover.
- Dealing with the unfinished completions for the above.
- Going through the client to office possible transfers report
- Client to office transfers from posting queue.
- Posting Anticipated Disbursement’s (AD) from the posting queue
- Cancelling AD’s
- Posting PI invoices as ADs from the tray.
- Reviewing outstanding non-Personal Injury AD’s .
- Monthly Premex statement – Update with new invoices received, cancel and delete invoices paid.
- General refunds for cancelling disbursements – holiday cover
- Updating the ‘Staff Details’ and ‘List of Fee Earners’ with new starters, leavers and any other changes for accounts purposes.
- Client to client transfers from posting queue and emails.
- Dealing with the emails outside of the usual requests / Ad hoc email
- Time write offs – holiday cover.
- Posting Queues – holiday cover.
- Posting non-completion bills.
- Paying office account international payments
- Cancelling cheques (both physical and on the bank)
- Three Audit Checks (bills delivered / old bills / small bills).
- Annual Reality Checks
- Assist with last Friday of the month completions.
WHAT EXPERIENCE DO I NEED?
- Accounts experience
- AAT qualification or working towards 4 AAT
- Confidently able to use excel
- Legal accounts experience would be beneficial but not essential
WHAT SKILLS SHOULD I HAVE?
- Attention to detail
- Team Player
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Must be accurate with work
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure.
- Awareness of deadlines and timescales
- IT literate, Word, Outlook and Excel.
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?
At Holmes & Hills we enjoy a collaborative, open plan, modern workspace with plenty of working pods and breakout areas. We arrange regular networking and social events and hold all-office get togethers at least twice a year.
Our benefits package is made up of benefits including access to an employee assistance programme, virtual GP access 24/7, death in service, a retail discount platform and optional medical insurance policies at group discount rates. After 1 years’ service employees automatically receive Medicash (a health cash-back scheme)
