Senior Insolvency Administrator / Assistant Manager
Main job purpose
To work within a team to ensure an efficient and professional delivery of corporate and personal insolvency services to clients.
Our culture
Lewis Business Recovery & Insolvency are a thriving firm of business recovery specialists and licensed insolvency practitioners, based in Leeds. Our ethos is to find the best solution for all parties, and promote continuity of business and employment, whilst offering an excellent service at a reasonable cost.
Most of our work is referred to us by accountants, whom we hold strong relationships built upon trust and confidence.
Since incorporation in 2013, we have grown the business organically by being good at what we do, and as a result of this we are looking for a confident, enthusiastic, outgoing individual to compliment our existing team.
For further details about our firm, please see our website (Reed wont let me us post a link!!).
Key duties and responsibilities
To be responsible for a mixed case load of formal insolvency appointments, in addition to assisting others within the team
Administer insolvency cases, from initial advice through to case closure, with exposure to all aspects of insolvency, including Administrations, CVLs, MVLs, Compulsory Liquidations, CVAs and Bankruptcies
Address and adjudicate creditors’ claims, including retention of title, secured, preferential and unsecured claims
Reporting to secured creditors
Assist team in continuing to trading on site where required
Prepare associated documentation for statutory meetings
Assisting employees with making claims and liaising with the redundancy payments service
Deal with day to day correspondence, including non-standard correspondence.
Preparing accurate books and records inventories, and taking responsibility for the safeguard, removal and storage of such from company premises
Carrying out statutory investigations, and pursuing antecedent transactions
Complete appropriate banking and cheque request forms in order to ensure that estate monies are handled and dealt with correctly
Complete VAT and Corporation tax returns
Adhere to statutory compliance and current legislation, including SIPS
Maintain and update IPS case diaries
Prepare directors disqualification reports
Liaise with professional agents, solicitors and accountants
Prepare supporting documents for sale contracts
Update and maintain case checklists
Attend and assist at meetings both in and out of the office when required
Participate in internal and external marketing events as required
Delegate work to, and provide ongoing training and support to junior staff
Reporting, relationships & management
Support other staff, including training and delegation to assistants
Assist other case administrators
Report on progress of cases to IP
Qualifications & experience
Preferable, but not essential that candidates have some accountancy experience or qualification, such as AAT.
Gained the necessary insolvency experience to be able to proactively lead cases from start to finish
Working towards or achieved CPI qualification
Technical, training & skill levels
Good IT skills including experience in using Excel, Word & IPS
Takes pride in maintaining high professional standards of conduct and practice
Self-motivated to keep up to date with changes in best practice and legislation
The ability to organise and manage time efficiently and effectively whilst being flexible
The ability to anticipate and communicate problems to others in the team
Confident and good communication skills
A professional manner including good interpersonal, telephone and letter writing skills
Takes responsibility for work tasks and quality, managing own workload and deadlines
Keeps IP updated on progress and highlights potential issues
Shows enthusiasm and commitment to undertaking tasks as required and in particular in seeing tasks through to completion
Builds understanding of the firm and its services
Salary and benefits
We are proud to have a positive working environment based on fun, work ethic, teamwork and job satisfaction. We also offer the following benefits to our employees:-
Company pension
Death in service cover
Private healthcare
Generous holiday entitlement
Staff bonus scheme
Parking
Unlimited career progression opportunities, with clear targets (....and no BS!)
Study support programme
If you have what it takes and are looking for a rewarding opportunity with a business that is growing organically (by being good at what we do!), it would be great to hear from you.