Head of Legal Recruitment at Search Talent
Contact: enda@searchtalent.ie | Phone: 00353 1 963 93 17 or 00353 830 48 99 77
Accounts Administrator in Law Firm
This role is with the leading Dublin practice in their specialist field of law, while also covering several other fields very successfully. The role is open due to impressive expansion in business and would see you working as an accounts administrator on their busy but extremely friendly Accounts Team. It is essential to have worked in a law practice and ideally in a plaintiff litigation costs capacity.
Responsibilities
* Administer matters from the settlement of the case to the closure of the file
* Maintain a list of matters and their statuses
* Monitor office and client account costs on matters
* Create cost files for the Legal Costs Accountant
* Reconcile matter costs to the Legal Costs Accountant's statement
* Communicate and correspond with Client, Legal Costs Accountants, Experts and Legal Counsel
* File all case correspondence
* Prepare payments to clients, witnesses and counsel
* Attend regular meetings with Partners and Legal Costs Accountants
* Set up new client profiles on the case management system
* Handle client billing when required
* Post outlay to the case management system
Requirements
* Strong administration and letter-writing expertise
* Preparation of Finance records
* Familiarity with Practice Evolve Case Mgt, although not a requirement, will be an advantage
* Strong numeracy skills with an impressive attention to detail
* Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities
* Prior experience with billing systems and Client Outlay
* Preferably legal cost accountant experience or Litigation Law, Firms' Costs experience
* Ideally, IATI qualification, either partial or complete. Those with the experience detailed above, without this, should also certainly apply
This ambitious, growing, extremely well-established Firm have a well-earned, notable reputation for the excellence of their service and attraction and retention of staff, with employees who have been with them happily for decades.
If this sounds like you and you wish to apply or just want to know more, we strongly encourage you to act quickly by contacting Enda on 01 963 93 17 or email enda@searchtalent.ie.
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