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DAC Beachcroft is look to appoint an Administrator to join its Claims Solutions Group team in Belfast.

The Claims Solutions Group advises insurers and corporate clients in their defence of claims of all values, types and complexity. Our work has resulted in a number of outstanding successes for our clients including findings of fundamental dishonesty in civil courts, committals to prison for contempt of court, police referrals and remedies for recovery of costs. The success of the team is due to innovative legal strategies, the use of sophisticated data analysis, our people and their expertise.

This is a permanent opportunity. Due to the nature of the role you will be required to work in the office at all times.

• General office duties – scanning, printing and filing paper documents. Assisting with morning and afternoon post, putting together court documents. Occasional hand deliveries to court, post or local bank
• Weekly court diary management – organising Outlook calendar and putting dates into Excel spreadsheet template
• Operational Support within Belfast Office
• Stationary and office supplies Stockkeeping – Office consumables and equipment, including kitchen supplies, ordering via an online portal when low
• File Archiving – sending and retrieving files from off-site storage. Online records management system data entry
• Accounting – basic accounting tasks, data entry, assisting legal and accounts teams with ad-hoc billing tasks
• Miscellaneous duties including
  • Assisting Reception with room booking, catering and front of house events
  • Upkeep of templates used ie. special delivery recording sheets, cheque recording sheets, etc.
  • Printing new file labels and new instruction documents
  • Printing, recording and distribution of internal cheques
• Facilities – assisting a Regional Facilities Manager with ad hoc property and Health and Safety related issues

• IT literate
• Good knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel, an advantage
• Good telephone manner
• Organised and able to prioritise and manage a constantly changing workload
• Excellent attention to detail
• Able to make decisions within own areas of responsibility
• Ability to work on own initiative without close supervision
• A co-operative team player who is able to work effectively within a pressurised environment and to tight deadlines
• Excellent communication skills with a positive and enthusiastic approach to their work
• Experience of using a case management preferred
• Experience of finance systems preferred

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We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are. We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best. Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable. Our recruitment team can be contacted at [email protected]