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Practice Manager - Legal
This Bedfordshire firm of Solicitors wish to recruit a new Practice Manager. The successful Practice Manager will handle a diverse and challenging workload to facilitate the delivery of the practices’ legal services.
Based in the Bedford area and easily accessible by road or rail, this is an office-based role. Salary is a generous circa 55/60k dependent on experience. Benefits include Company pension, Death in service benefit, Smart Health (after a 1-year qualifying period.
Duties may include but not be limited to:
• Management of the finance department and back office; day-to-day and annual responsibility for the firms’ accounts; advice on regulatory compliance including SRA and SAR’s; organisation of the firm’s insurance, accreditation and practising certificate, renewals; attending Board meetings; negotiating with third party suppliers and developing, organisational and performance systems.
The successful candidate will have prior COFA (compliance officers for finance and administration) experience within the Legal field. They should have a comprehensive understanding of the Solicitor Accounts Rules.
Duties may also include:
• Prepare and provide information to the firm’s accountants for annual SAR’s audit and year end accounts.
• Lexcel applications
• Internal training to ensure Lexcel compliance.
• Updating TOBs, office policies and procedures as and when required and in line with Lexcel, CQS and SRA guidelines.
• Checking and authorising TT’s/BACs from the client account (approx.30-50 per day/60-80 on a Friday)
• CQS applications
• NI/Tax payments due to HMRC; VAT returns; Corporation Tax instalments
• Payroll
• Maintain/update staff benefits scheme.
• Maintain the firm’s website – staff profiles, content updates, recruitment pages, Team appraisals, etc.
• Provide support to staff in relation to software/systems including P4W, Bundledocs, Legal ID checks, Formshare etc.
This a fantastic opportunity – if you have the right Practice Manager experience why not apply now?