Finance Administrator and Co-Ordinator // Legal Firm Leeds // £30k

We are currently partnering with a leading legal firm to recruit for a newly created role on the Commercial Dispute Resolution team.

This exciting role will join a high profile and esteemed group of colleagues and will provide a great development opportunity for someone looking for a role of this nature in the legal sector.

This role will involve an interesting and varied mix of finance, legal and co-ordination duties.

We are looking for an individual who is confident dealing with a wide range of people at all levels – a great communicator who is highly organised and able to question and challenge appropriately (and professionally) as needed. You’ll have a keen eye for figures, be  able to quickly learn how the department works in order to bring your skills to help keep things on track and running as smoothly as possible!

A main overall focus of the role is to support the Senior Management team to ensure that billing and payments for WIP are tracked and managed and that debtor days and lock-up are reduced.

This will involve:

• Liaising with national Heads of Department, Lawyers and Team leaders across the firm
• Liaising with the central Finance function
• Tracking, assessing and discussing WIP with lawyers and the finance team
• Discussing Lock-up and financial exposure control
• Co-ordinating financial management to maximise efficient cash flow
• Supporting Partners in the Dispute resolution Team to organise a variety of events and conferences 

Skills:

• Good Excel skills
• Good numerical accuracy
• A people-person and strong communicator
• Able to liaise at all levels and build excellent relationships
• Not afraid to ask questions and to provide suggestions and solutions
• Confident to use initiative
• Confident to communicate with debtors directly when needed
• Excellent organisational skills
• Enthusiastic to help organise interesting events and conferences

This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to make a new role their own!

Hybrid working, 35hrs per week.