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- Hybrid working
- Flexible on office location
- Career development and progression opportunities
- Funded professional qualifications
- Award-winning law firm
- Suitable for someone with over 5 years’ experience of working in a legal cost’s environment
- Preparing Bills of Costs for detailed assessments
- Dealing with the detailed assessment process
- Preparing costs budgets
- Dealing with costs management
- Prepare Schedules and Bills of Costs, ensuring accuracy and compliance with the civil procedure rules
- Negotiate costs settlements.
- Provide technical advice on costs recovery.
- Prepare replies to points of dispute and handle the detailed assessment process.
- Address fixed costs arguments and provide advice on fixed costs issues.
- Budget preparation and costs management
- Advocacy (optional)
- Assisting the Head of Costs with operational matters for best practice
- Providing training and support to junior team members
- Be involved in the department’s internal training provisions, either front facing or background assistance.
- Assisting with gathering and interpretation of management information
- Experience in Budget preparation and the costs management process.
- Good written & numerical skills
- Good organisational skills & ability to work under pressure at times.
- Ability to communicate advice on complex issues in a clear and reasoned way to colleagues throughout the firm.
- Ability to research, analyse and interpret information and case law and develop technical arguments
- Ability and desire to support junior team members in their developmentGood IT skills including the use of Costs master or other billing software with transferable skills
