Your Role
and What You'll Be Doing
In your role as Trust Accounts Assistant, you will demonstrate excellent organisational skills, a keen eye for detail and the ability to work to the highest standards to ensure Irwin Mitchell’s client care remains second-to-none. Working as part of a successful and well-established team, you will contribute to this by providing cost-effective fee earning, accounting and taxation work. Working in a fast-paced, busy office environment, you will work to achieve agreed targets with regards to fee earning as well as the recording of chargeable and non chargeable time.
About You
The successful candidate will have exceptional communication skills enabling you to liaise effectively not only with your team but also the wider business. As Irwin Mitchell prides itself on its client care and offering an ‘Expert Hand, Human Touch’, we will expect you to champion these values through all work you do. With this in mind, you will work to ensure that all client work is completed in a timely manner and that our clients are kept informed at all stages.
In return for your hard work, the role on offer presents the successful candidate with a rewarding opportunity to learn in a professional legal environment. Whilst developing your technical expertise on the job, you will also have the chance to undertake professional development to ensure your knowledge is kept up-to-date and relevant.
If you are team player with a genuine desire to learn, progress and build your career, we would love to hear from you.
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
1. 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
2. Generous and flexible pension schemes.
3. Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
4. Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.