Cost Recovery Officer - FTC/Secondment

Fixed Term Contract / Secondment
9 months
Full time
35 hours per week
c. £27,000 pa + excellent benefits
Birmingham
A great opportunity has arisen to be a Cost Recovery Officer in the Cost Recovery Team. The Cost Recovery Officer will report to the Team Manager in Client Protection and work in the Cost Recovery Team. You will play an integral part in a small but highly skilled team and you will have the exciting opportunity to bring your own expertise of cost recovery and help develop best practice. We are looking for a dynamic person who is enthusiastic, resilient and has a keen focus on service delivery and approaches issues in a logical manner. Fully converse with all debt recovery enforcement actions, the best candidate will hit the ground running and will own the delivery of case outputs to specified requirements.

Essential

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and experience:

Educated to graduate level or equivalent, preferably in law

Experience of working in a solicitor's office or similar environment as a solicitor, paralegal or legal executive dealing with debt recovery

A detailed knowledge of the rules and remedies of debt recovery, the insolvency laws and their practical effect, the Civil Procedure Rules, detailed assessment procedure and the conduct of civil litigation matters generally

Understanding of objectives and key result areas for own area and how it fits into the SRA

Good written and verbal communication skills in order to explain technical data/give routine advice easily and succinctly

Track record of delivering results by owning work and projects, ensuring successful outcomes

Resilient and able to work in a constantly changing environment

Pro-active and makes decisions

Desirable

Works to the weeks ahead with some project contributions extending to the months ahead

Will work on cross-functional initiatives and projects

The SRA is the independent regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, protecting consumers and supporting the rule of law and the administration of justice. We do this by overseeing all education and training requirements necessary to practise as a solicitor, licensing individuals and firms to practise, setting the standards of the profession and regulating and enforcing compliance against these standards.
We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.

Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
Vacancy closing date: 19/07/2015, 23:55

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.

Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.

 We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.

This opportunity is closed to applicants.