Career in Accounts: Legal Junior Accounts Assistant at Top City Law Firm £21,000

Are you looking for a career Accounts/Finance?  This role could be perfect if so!  One of the leading City law firms is looking to hire someone who has recently passed their ‘A’ Levels and wanting to start a career in finance.  The firm is looking to recruit a Junior Accounts Assistant to join the Accounts team which sits within the wider Finance Department, the Accounts team consists of three Account Assistants and two Junior Accounts Assistants, all reporting to the Financial Controller.  The role of the Junior Accounts Assistant is to provide support to the Financial Controller and Finance team to ensure the duties of the Finance Department are carried out in a timely and efficient manner. This is a training position that will provide a start in the career of legal accounting.  Main responsibilities will include; Accounts payable postings as required, other postings e.g. hard costs, journals, receipts, printing of cheques as required, check matter numbers and follow up missing/incorrect numbers, posting of batches and filing of batches when posted, daily finalising of uploaded soft costs and time batches, uploading taxi cost batches and matching them to late night taxi forms, chasing for any missing forms, cover for the other members of the team during busy periods, printing & circulating of weekly and monthly reports, daily Monitoring of control accounts / batch listings / time recording balances, report on Accounts matters to Financial Controller weekly and any other reasonable duties that are requested to be undertaken by Financial Controller.  The right candidate will be of A-Level standard or equivalent with an eagerness to learn and expand their experience however prior experience is not required.  Applicants need to be bright, enthusiastic and be able to work in a demanding environment with strong attention to detail and communication skills.  Standard hours are 9:30 – 5:30 with the firm being based in stunning offices with a tremendous benefits package.