Cost Draftsperson – Fletchers Solicitors
Hybrid working | Offices in Southport, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds & Bolton
Looking for a place where you can grow your costs career, feel supported, and enjoy real work-life balance? You’ve found it.
In Return Fletchers Can Offer
- 35 hours working week
- Bonus scheme (subject to targets being met)
- 35 days holiday a year including bank holidays and Christmas Closure, you also have an option to purchase up to 3 extra days’ holiday per year, until you long service award the 3 days after your 5th, 7th, and 9th full year of employment
- Pension scheme with tax‑efficient salary sacrifice option
- Life Assurance Policy
- Medicash policy to cover some Dental, optical and other medical expenses
- Company sick pay
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and IVF schemes
- Flexible, agile working environment with a positive work‑life balance
- Varied calendar of funded company social events (check out Fletchers Group on LinkedIn)
- Monthly voucher awards
Main Responsibilities
- Preparation of detailed bills of costs, costs schedules and costs estimates.
- Review of opponent’s points of dispute and preparation of replies.
- Preparation of costs budgets.
- Reviewing opponents’ costs budgets, preparing BDRs, Precedent T’s and entering into negotiations.
- Potential to attend CCMC hearings.
- Ensuring that the quality of work produced is to the highest standard.
- Management of daily workloads as well as achieving service level agreements.
- Be able to work to deadlines and prioritise matters to ensure targets are delivered.
- Ensuring that the Client is regularly updated as to the current situation on matters.
- Ensuring that care is taken to ensure good working relationships with internal colleagues.
- Being responsible for maximising the firm’s profitability whilst maintaining the highest Client care standard.
- Adhering to the firm’s policies.
- Any other duties as reasonably required by the business.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Proven experience of drafting bills of costs and costs budgets
- Experience of Proclaim
- Experience of Cost Master
- Organisational, planning and communication skills
- Excellent customer service skills
- Good general IT skills
- Time management
- Ability to use initiative
- Working effectively within a team.
- Attention to detail and the ability to meet tight deadlines
We reserve the right to close this role before the date specified depending on the calibre and volume of candidates.
Fletchers Group is an inclusive employer with a diverse workforce: we welcome applications from any and all backgrounds. We’re committed to providing a culture and environment where everyone can thrive, understanding and celebrating that no colleague is the same. We’re proud of our work on the Disability Confident scheme, and we are signing up to other diversity standards to reflect our ethos.
