Legal / Finance Admin - Positive Employment : Job Details

Our client is a large local government organisation and looking for an experienced Finance / Legal Administrator to join their team

This is initially a 3 month contract which may be extended for the right candidate

You will

Ifac member body (Preferably cipfa) or aat accounting technicians level (Nvq level 4).

To assist the Business Support Officer and Principal Lawyer Constitution, Governance and Finance for Legal Services in the provision of a comprehensive professional finance service that fulfils corporate and operational requirements.

To provide on-going training and development to the Legal Services practice.

To undertake the accounts payable service to all Legal Services Suppliers.

To lead on monthly reconciliations for Legal Services.

Lead with all aspects of financial reports, journals, statement and external audit requests.

To lead on the collation and reporting on income and expenditure, including spend on barristers and experts, including external solicitors.

To train and oversee new members of staff as part of their onboarding.

Assist in Revenue and Capital salary forecast outturns for Legal Services.

To deal with payment of all invoices and associated financial records of transactions and resolve variances.

Lead on and resolve, queries from third parties, Chambers, Solicitors, Experts and all other Legal Suppliers.

To deal with financial control and reconciliation of accounts from Oracle.

To assist with half year, year end accruals and month end, quarter end financial reports.

To provide expertise in respect of Oracle systems, IKEN and court bundling system to all fee earners.

To assist with budget setting/monitoring and monthly/quarterly and annual financial statements.

To assist in preparatory work for budgets, annual accounts and forecasting.

To provide administrative support and guidance to the Legal Services function. .

Effectively lead on service improvement initiatives by designing and implementation of new or improved processes within the service area.

To organise and support Legal Services meetings, IKEN group meetings and events.

To undertake projects within Legal Services as directed by the Business Manager.

Produce bespoke income invoices using the financial system working with central VAT team, Oracle Interface and Oracle AR.

Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and all employees are required to act in such a way that at all times safeguards the health and well-being of children and vulnerable adults.

Carry out duties with due regard to the Council’s Customer Care, Equal Opportunities, Information Governance, Data Protection, Health and Safety and Emergency Planning & Awareness (including to provide assistance where available) policies and procedures.

Undertake any other duties commensurate with the general level of responsibility of this post.

PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE IS INSIDE SCOPE OF IR35