Serious Injury Cost Assistant

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Serious Injury Cost Assistant

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a top 100 law firm based in Wakefield. We are looking to hire a Cost Assistant to join our Serious Injury team.

About us

Minster Law Solicitors is wholly owned by BHL UK Ltd, a UK subsidiary of BHL, a highly successful, cash generative and profitable international Insurance Services Group. Established in 2006, Minster Law is one of the UK’s leading personal injury claims providers to the motor insurance market.

Our values

When you join the team here at Minster, you will be joining an Investor’s in People Platinum accredited organisation, which demonstrates our commitment to high performance through great people and a strong company culture that focuses on trust, respect, openness and inclusion. Our values are ‘stand together’, ‘be courageous’ and ‘find a way’ and this embodies everything we do.

How we work

We encourage and support agile working to allow our colleagues to get the best out of their day. As long as we continue to ensure that our customers, partners, business and colleagues needs are met, we believe colleagues can work where they feel will be most productive – at home, in the office or other suitable venue. By allowing our colleagues the ability to work in an agile environment, we believe this encourages and creates a more fluid approach to how we work, to stimulate productivity, creativity and engagement.

Our Benefits

We also offer great benefits at Minster so we can reward our colleagues for the great work they do and to say thank you. This includes a generous bonus scheme, matched pension scheme, insurance benefits, health and wellbeing support, discounts, regular reward incentives, study sponsorship and great social events.

Giving Back (CSR)

Being able to support our local communities is important to us and is a key part of who we are. We have a strong Corporate Social Responsibility agenda and a host of activities to support this. This includes working with charities and groups that help to improve the lives in our local communities. This commitment to improving and supporting our local communities is embedded into our working lives so much that we actively encourage our colleagues to spend one day a year volunteering by giving them a day off.

The Role

To provide an internal technical administrative support service to our serious injury teams, in relation to the progressing cases post settlement. The Serious Injury Costs team will deal with the administrative aspects of cost schedules, billing, sales reserve management and the recovery of fees on cases, to drive efficient collection of fees and the closure of cases.

· Managing key stakeholders such as file handlers, leadership and finance colleagues.

· Ensuring of progressing of cases in line with internal SLA’s and civil procedure rules

· Drafting Without Prejudice Schedule of costs and engaging in negotiation with Defendant’s to achieve the best possible recovery for our costs

· Processing of financial information and where required, processing of disbursements and payment activity

· Proactively pursue outstanding costs and where required, commencing costs enforcement procedures

· Data interrogation, numeracy reconciliation and ability to use Microsoft Office.

· Facilitate internal bill approval and signature processes within designated timescales.

· To undertake any other tasks as deemed relevant and reasonable by the business.

Person Specification

Essential

· Proven experience of working within an administrative/finance role.

· Excellent MS Word and Excel skills.

· The ability to interpret, analyse and process complex information in both written and numerical format.

· Organisational skills to a high standard.

· Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to negotiate and influence outcomes.

· Ability to perform to a high level in a fast paced, large volume turnover environment.

· Being able to use own initiative in order to prioritise workloads and deadlines

Salary

Up to £21,000 depending on experience

How to apply

If you think you have the skills and experience for this role, don’t delay and apply now via our website. On our website you will find out Candidate Pack that shows you all about life at Minster Law, take a look at what we can offer to you.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact our Careers Team through the website.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £19,000.00-£21,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Cycle to work scheme
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Wakefield: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person