Legal and Finance Administration Officer

Legal and Finance Administration Officer
Location: London
Contract: Temporary (3-months initial)
Rate: £27.00 per hour umbrella £24.29 per hour PAYE Inclusive £21.67 per hour PAYE exclusive
Start Date: ASAP
Hybrid Working
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Job Description
Service Care Solutions are currently recruiting on behalf of a Local Authority in London for a Legal and Finance Administration Officer to join the team on a temporary basis. The postholder will 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.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead with all aspects of financial reports, journals, statement and external audit requests.
• Lead on the collation and reporting on income and expenditure, including spend on barristers and experts, including external solicitors.
• Train and oversee new members of staff as part of their onboarding.
• Assist in Revenue and Capital salary forecast outturns for Legal Services.
• 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.
• Deal with financial control and reconciliation of accounts from Oracle.
• Assist with half year, year end accruals and month end, quarter end financial reports.
• Provide expertise in respect of Oracle systems, IKEN and court bundling system to all fee earners.

CandidateCriteria

• Part-Qualified Accountant or AAT Qualified with relevant experience
• Significant experience of working in local government legal and finance sector or similar relevant experience.
• Experience of providing financial reports for the service
• Detailed experience of independently using financial functions such as GL, salary statement reconciliation or similar systems
• Great communication skills with the ability to work well on own initiative as well as part of a team

If you are interested in the role, or know of anyone who may be, please contact Greg at Service Care Solutions on or email
Service Care Solutions also offers a £250 referral bonus! So, if you know of anyone who would be perfect for this position and they are placed into work, you will receive £250 for the referral once their probationary period has been completed.