Accounts Assistant (12 month FTC) - Dublin

Job Introduction

DACBeachcroft Dublin is looking for an experience Accounts Assistant to join our Finance team on a full-time, hybrid basis in our office in Dublin 4. The role is for a 12 month contract, starting January 2025, and would ideally suit someone who has experience in a similar role and can hit the ground running.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, the Accounts department support the day to day running of the practice in Dublin, and also work closely with the wider finance team largely based in Bristol. The Accounts Assistant will be responsible for a variety of tasks for the lawyers and support staff, including logging supplier invoices, applying cash, opening and closing matters, reviewing billing rates, generating bills for clients, scanning and filing documents, and any other ad-hoc requests that may take place during the normal course of business. 

We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role as set out in this advert.  If this applies to you contact disabilityconfident@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the team will be in touch. 

We are happy to talk flexible working and have in place a Flex-forward working scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.

Role Responsibility

 Operational Processing:

• Accounts Payable: ensure all payments, disbursements and invoices are logged accurately and in a timely manner
• Banking:  assist with ensuring all payments in/out are recorded accurately and office and client bank accounts are reconciled on a regular basis
• Matter Management: ensure all matters and rates are set up and/or amended accurately and on time and deal with general queries on matters
• Client Billing: raise and amend invoices / credit notes and deal with various billing queries

Accounting and analysis:

• Assist with the processing of accounting cost uploads, mainly for billing readiness
• Assist with the analysis of variances: preparation of analysis of costs as part of the month-end close processes

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience in a similar role is essential, ideally within a Legal or Professional Services environment.
• Experience with Chrome River and/or 3E / or similar legal accounting systems would be an advantage and is highly desirable, but not essential as full training will be given.
• Lateral thinker with the ability to generate creative solutions to complex problems
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to manage high work-loads.
• A team player but able to use own initiative.
• IT literate with ability to pick up new systems quickly. Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel is essential.
• Flexible with a positive 'can do' attitude.
• Good level of numeracy

About the Company

We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe.  In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe. 

Working with us

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.

Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.

We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft LLP resourcing team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals.  Whilst we do work with recruitment agencies, we will formally release those vacancies to instructed agencies deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the resourcing team will not be accepted and no introduction fee will be applicable.  Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com.

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