Finance Assistant

Due to an internal team promotion, we are looking to hire a new Finance Assistant to join our London based Finance Department. The department consists of 19 people, led by a Director of Finance, and 4 Managers, split across client accounting/office accounting, revenue control, finance systems and reporting/accounting.

This full time (35hr a week), Finance Assistant role would see you working within the department’s client accounting/office accounting team, reporting to the Finance Operations Manager, and working closely with 6 other finance professionals. You will be working with both the client and office account transactions including but not limited to, AP Invoices, client and office payments and receipts, client account transfers, supplier reconciliations and expense claims.

Day to day tasks will include:

• Posting of all firm invoices and reconciling supplier statements via Chrome River
• Posting of counsel fees and reconciling fee notes
• Dealing with office receipts and ensuring all disbursements are paid out
• Client receipts and payments
• Client account transfers.

Please note, we are not accepting agency CVs for this role, at this time. 

This role would suit someone with some prior experience either in a similar role or an entry level finance administration role within a law firm. Additionally, if you have a background in legal administration, with exposure to processing invoices/client bills, (alongside a love for numbers!), and enjoy the challenge of juggling deadlines and maintaining a high degree of accuracy (when it comes to data entry), this would be an ideal role.

The client accounting/office accounting team deal with requests, questions and workflows from all areas of our firm, so you must have a passion for people and providing excellent client care.

In return, you will join a supportive, friendly, fun team of likeminded finance professionals, in a growing and entrepreneurial law firm.

Winckworth Sherwood is an exciting, diverse, and growing business. We are a full-service law firm with a diverse client base, that prides itself on providing advice across a broad range of sectors and markets. Delivering a first-class service is key to everything we do.

Our clients range from some of the UK’s largest businesses and institutions, housebuilders and developers through to investors, professional partnerships, family offices, not for profit organisations and private individuals – all of which benefit from the flexible, practical approach of our lawyers.

We recognise that our people play a key part in our success and as a result we are committed to their development and well-being. We promote a healthy work-life balance and flexibility, keeping our people motivated and stimulated to deliver great things.

Application review

Your profile will be screened by a member of the WS recruitment team. If you CV is shortlisted, you will be invited to have a short call with our Recruitment Manager, Ash Evans, to discuss your interest in the vacancy. No AI is used in our application screening process! Every candidate who applies to this role will be told if they have been successful or not in moving to the next stage.

Interview (in person at our London office)

This will be with the Director of Finance and the Finance Manager responsible for the client accounting/office accounting team. They will discuss your interest in the role, what you are looking for professionally, and ask some competency/behavioural questions that relate to the key skills/behaviours needed for this position.

We will also ask you to complete a technical test, related to the duties of the role. 

Every candidate who reaches this stage will be offered the chance to have a feedback call with our Recruitment Manager to understand why they weren't offered the position, so that you can use this feedback to help with other job applications.

Offer of employment

If you are successful and accept our offer of employment, we will submit your details to our background screening company (Giant), who will conduct a series of background checks. Once these have been completed and we have separately validated your proof of right to work in the UK, a start date can be agreed, and your onboarding schedule can be planned.