Assistant Accountant in Birmingham

Our Benefits:

• Our total reward package includes a basic salary and a potential to earn rewards for excellent contribution to LeO.
• Stakeholder pension scheme, whereby LeO will double your contribution up to 10%.
• Annual Leave of 26 days per year (plus bank holidays) (pro rata for part time staff), plus you can buy or sell 4 days leave each year.
• Flexible hours driven by work life balance and operated between 7am and 9pm each day, this also includes hybrid working of 80% at home and 20% in the office each week.
• Group Income Protection if you can't work due to long term absence or injury, this protection can provide a regular income.
• Life assurance of 6 times your annual salary.
• Legal Information Service offering free advice and support with debt management, tax related matters, consumer disputes.
• Employee Assistance programmes.
• Online health, fitness, and wellbeing resources.
• Wellbeing champions.
• Investment in your career development through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on the job experience.

About us and why we matter:

People rely on legal services at key times in their lives whether it's buying a home, dealing with bereavement, having issues at work, ending a marriage, or being involved in legal action. These things really matter and that's why the Legal Ombudsman really matters. If people can't sort out a problem with a legal provider, we're here to resolve things fairly and as quickly as possible. And as we resolve individual complaints, we share learning and insight into what we've seen helping prevent the same issues arising again.

Are you a proactive finance professional with experience across Sales Ledger, Credit Control and Purchase Ledger processing?

Are you an excellent communicator, both verbally and in writing, able to explain complex financial matters in clear and simple terms?

Are you confident in your understanding of the double entry accounting system and able to apply it accurately in your day-to-day work?

Do you have excellent communication skills, utilising discretion and diplomacy to build trusted relationships?

Within this role, you will play a key part in delivering accurate and efficient financial processing, supporting the wider team while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships and contributing to the smooth running of the finance function.

What you will be doing:

• Support all purchasing within a cross section of categories.
• Support the development, negotiating and commercially managing commercial arrangements that secure best value for money.
• Support the provision of professional commercial advice and guidance to Legal Ombudsman staff on all contractual issues including procurement strategies and compliance with public procurement regulations; to ensure value for money, legality and propriety in all purchasing.
• Update and maintain the Tender register and ensure that all contracts documents are saved in the designated shared space.
• Assist and provide cover for the Purchase ledger function. This will involve raising purchase orders, posting invoices and preparing payments to agreed timescales and ensuring appropriate authorisation levels are maintained.
• Reconciling Supplier Statements.
• Assist in the preparation of accruals, prepayments and other reconciliations as required.
• Assist and provide cover for the Credit Control function. This will involve, issuing of all case fee invoices on a daily basis, chasing and preparing the bad debt provision calculations at month end.
• Assist the Finance Team with Month End Close process and completing the monthly returns.
• Assisting with other general administrative tasks such as purchase order processing and taking responsibility for collecting authorisations.

About you:

• Accounts Payable/Purchase Ledger processing experience.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong telephone skills, able to listen to potentially difficult and complex queries, and remain focused on key points.
• Experience of an accounting package.
• Knowledge of the Accounting Double Entry system.

And we are:

• Family Friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave, shared parental leave, adoption leave.
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including thousands of discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays, theatre tickets etc.
• Community friendly offering Special Leave if you're an active member of your community, you can get extra paid leave for public duties, volunteering activities and reserve forces duties.
• Inclusive of all communities and we encourage applications from the widest possible range of backgrounds and circumstances.
• A disability Confident employer, welcoming applications from disabled people. We operate the offer an interview scheme for all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.

If you are successful, it's key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include: - Right to work check, (applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK). Employment History references. DBS criminal record check. Fit for work questionnaire (for all) followed by a medical check (if applicable). Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable).

The role closes on Friday 20th February 2026 at 17:00pm.