We're currently looking for a talented and motivated Finance Coordinator to join our Finance Compliance team in Newcastle. This is a hybrid role, offering the flexibility to work from home two days a week.

The team

Central to our success are of course our very talented lawyers, but they couldn't achieve their results without the ongoing support from our Finance team who have an essential role to play in growing the business and maintaining our financial performance.  Our Compliance team play a crucial role in that, in ensuring our lawyers act according to the Solicitors Accounts Rules (SAR). 

The role

Part of your role will involve maintaining accurate records of client funds to ensure they are earmarked and protected accordingly while complying with Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) regulations and audit requirements. You'll gain an understanding of, and comply with, the Solicitors Accounts Rules (SAR) as well as all financial/firm policies. Sending out daily reports and emails to matter fee earners and partners, ensuring replies are received or chased up if required. Dealing with internal telephone and email queries. Playing an active role in assisting the team with a variety of admin tasks including populating and monitoring spreadsheets. The wider Finance team adopts a 'one team' approach, so you'll work closely with other departments, such as Accounts Payable and Treasury.

What are we looking for?

A meticulous worker with exceptional attention to detail and who is passionate about accuracy. You should also be able to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels and be organised and methodical in your approach.  Excellent IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Excel and Outlook. Willing to learn and can work as part of a team as well as independently. Prior experience in a finance team is not essential, as full training will be given.

To be successful in this role you'll need as a minimum:  

• Evidence of good academics either from school or other studies.
• Ideally some previous experience of working within an office environment or administrative role.
• Strong IT skills (including MS Word, Excel and Outlook).
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel, emphasising that we're more than just suits!

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working.

Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, neurodiversity, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about DEI at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page. Please also let us know if you need this job advert or the application form in a different format.

We will offer an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response to this question is only used for this purpose, is only visible to the recruitment team and is not used for data monitoring. 

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