We’re a national law firm with a local reach. Our legal experts are here for you. Whether it’s personal or business, we understand that everyone’s situation is different. But we’re more than just a law firm – we’re a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life’s ups and downs. Working here you’ll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.

We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to a member of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.

We are currently looking for a candidate to join us on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract.

This role is hybrid, working 1-2 days per week in our Sheffield office.

If you enjoy being part of a successful, friendly and high-performing team, then this is the job for you. You’ll be working closely with the team’s fee-earners and Partners in Court of Protection to make sure they always have the correct administrative support. This is a busy and fast-paced role, so you’ll need to be able to work quickly and accurately, building strong relationship with your team and our clients. There’s lots of room for progression and we’d really like to support you in your professional development.

Your Role

As a Billing Paralegal you will be:

• Assisting with the preparation of Annual OPG reports for all our Professional Deputyship matters. This involves exporting the bank statements from the Lloyds online bank system and entering these transactions into a template excel spreadsheet. Also reviewing the 3e client account to check for transactions passing through that account.  Also assisting with the preparation of Lay Deputy reports for external deputies.
• Reconciling the transactions passing through the accounts during the reporting period. This involves categorising the credits/debits into the relevant categories provided by the OPG, using the payments app to obtain further information regarding payments made and adding the descriptions to the excel spreadsheet.
• Summarising the above information in a pivot table and then copying the data over into the OPG website.
• Summarising the current costs information on the OPG site and providing costs information to the Fee Earner to assist them in the preparation of their costs estimate for the upcoming year.
• Liaising with the OPG to resolve queries following the submission of the annual OPG reports.
• Assisting in all aspects of housekeeping
• Assisting the team in hitting financial targets

Preparing documents and files for billing bundles to forward onto the Court

• Working knowledge of Excel
• A friendly, enthusiastic, and can-do approach
• Be a role model and demonstrate our values consistently
• Ideally Paralegal experience however this is not essential.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.  This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim. 

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks ­with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.