Fast Track Costs Recovery Handler

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Fast Track Costs Recovery Handler to join our Costs team in Liverpool on a 12 month, fixed-term contract.

Do you have excellent customer service skills? Can you engage with third parties, build working relationships and have strong communication skills?

Do you have strong Microsoft Excel skills and have previous experience working with figures? If so, then we may have the perfect role for you!

You will be responsible for managing files once damages have been settled by identifying debt/payments and making various payments out to clients/ medical agencies and third parties and also chasing monies owed. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with finance or legal knowledge, to join a leading Law firm.

Responsibilities to include:

• Proactively Chase TP insurers / Solicitors for agreed Damages & Costs
• Negotiate disputed costs on Fast Track Fixed recoverable cost cases and Litigate when required
• Identify cheques and BACS payments received on a daily basis & ensure the relevant approval steps are run so payments can be banked and Costs transferred.

What we offer in return:

We have a wide range of core and voluntary benefits:

• Hybrid working – (First week of training in the office and then you will need to be in the office 2 days per week – Wednesday and Friday) – must live a reasonable distance to commute to the office
• 35 hours per week – Monday to Friday
• 25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Buy and sell annual leave up to 5 days
• Employee Referral scheme

Some of the benefits listed above are subject to passing probation or are length of service related. Benefits may be adjusted/removed from time to time

Your Professional Development

We will support and encourage you with developing your career with an award- winning law firm. We run courses across our offices and are continuously monitoring and updating the learning and development offering based on what you tell us. We can support you with your continuous professional development by providing funding for professional qualifications, attending external training courses and providing you with a range of internal learning resources.

Our Values

Like all great businesses, we strive to recruit the best people and uphold the highest legal standards. Our people bring something a little different. We hire people who can challenge, remove roadblocks and deliver outstanding customer service. That's why at Slater + Gordon we go further with our values.

How we work is guided by the S+G Way. This means:

· We do what we say we will

· We don’t wait we create

· We own it, we sort it

· We respect and encourage each other

· We make time to live

The S+G Way defines the specific behaviours and actions that our colleagues and our customers care about the most. We know this, because our colleagues helped to create the way, through a series of interactive workshops and interviews.

For further information, please contact SL.Baylis@slatergordon.uk

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