Finance, Law & Business Graduate

Job Title: Finance, Law & Business Graduate

Location: Sharston, M22 4HH

Salary: £25,750 per annum + £200 monthly commission

Job type: Full time, Permanent

Start Date: 13th January 2025

About You

• Are you a Finance, Economics or Business Graduate?
• Would you like to try something new and take your career in a new direction?
• Analytical with a methodical attention to detail?

Then our Costs Litigation Assistant role is the new finance job for you! Don t worry you don t need to have experience in law! We believe that your finance experience will give you a great foundation to build on.

We provide full training on all aspects of the role. You will learn how to use our cost drafting software: Cost Master, and our case management system: Proclaim. You will learn how to review a client file of papers accurately in order to bill all the client s legal work and disbursements.

Training will be given in new starter groups and one to one at your desk (both in person and over MS Teams). You will have a work Buddy and work closely with your Line Manager.

The role:

Our Cost Litigation Assistants draft bills and cost statements for our clients. They work to deadline and to detailed work check lists. This is technical work, and being able to absorb information and then clearly and concisely distil information will be a major part of the role.

We have a cohort of Costs Litigation Assistants starting in 13th January 2025. If you are available to start full time from then, we would love to hear from you!

About Us:

Express Solicitors are currently ranked 80 out of more than 10,000 law firms in the UK and ranked in the top ten for the Best Law Firm to work for in the UK by Best Companies. We have a 5-star ranking with Trust Pilot from over 4,500 reviews, which, coming from our clients, means a lot to us.

Things you want to know:

• Salary £25,750 + £200 monthly commission
• Working Hours -8:30am-5:30pm Monday-Thursday and 8:30am to 5pm Friday
• Office based - Working from home offered after probation and once competent in work practices at a rate of 1 day per week
• Holidays - 23 days holiday a year, rising to 26 days PLUS a day off for your birthday after 2 years service
• Benefits - Lots of other benefits like holiday buyback, death in service, free fruit, Employee Assistant Programme, paid for social events, and annual flu jabs.

What to do next:

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Graduate Financial Controller, Trainee Finance Assistant, Trainee Accounts Assistant, Accounting Graduate, Finance Analyst, Finance Coordinator, Treasury Coordinator, Junior Costs Litigation may also be considered for this role.