Finance Assistant

Guildford

£26,000/£32,000

9 month fixed term contract

Hybrid working

Our client, recognised as one of the UK’s leading law firms, is currently looking for an experienced Finance Assistant to join their friendly team based at their beautiful modern offices in the centre of Guildford.

You will be working within a busy finance team and will initially be involved with aspects of office and client accounting.

Responsibilities: –

• Bank Reconciliations – daily
• Logging incoming cheques and preparing paperwork for banking
• Processing cheques for both office and client bank accounts
• Processing client bank payments
• Processing invoices
• Monitoring bank transactions and posting transactions to the bank account and matter ledgers
• General ad-hoc support to legal departments
• Registering/chasing VAT invoices relating to Disbursements
• Processing corporate card expenses

The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years’ previous finance experience within a professional services environment and 3E Practice Management System would be ideal, but not essential. You will be required to have a good working knowledge and experience of using Outlook, Word & Excel along with strong numerical skills and a proven ability to learn new IT systems, internal processes and procedures. A high attention to detail is also a requirement.

Whilst we would love to be able to respond to every application we receive, it is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 7 working days, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.