Support our Commercial Operations team as we champion what's right.
Work with authentic, supportive people who are truly invested in you.
Get the flex you need, with WFH and flexible work arrangements options.
Want to work in a place that supports you to achieve and grow? Love to be helping clients and supporting teams?
Join us and be the professional and the person you want to be.
The Opportunity
At Shine, we champion better justice for our clients. And as a full-time, fixed-term Legal Costing Officer based in the Melbourne CBD, that starts with you. Although this role is to cover parental leave contract for twelve (12) months, this role may have the possibility to extend based on business needs.
This is a great opportunity to work in an internally focused role for a Legal Costing Solicitor on all aspects of costing client matters, including statistical analysis, reconciliation, data entry, preparation of itemised accounts, and administrative and legal assistance to the broader team.
You'll be part of a truly connected team of authentic people who are as passionate as you are. With empathy, adaptability and initiative, you will be a true champion of our clients by:
Undertaking data entry, numerical reconciliation and statistical analysis of work in progress accounts in Microsoft Excel of client information.
Providing administrative and limited legal assistance to the Legal Costing Team.
Assisting in the preparation of itemised accounts in Excel for checking, review and amendment by the Costing Solicitor and/or National Costing Solicitor.
Maintaining the progress of work within the legal costing team using internal systems.
Assisting in the preparation of files to be outsourced for external costing.
Preparing Draft Itemised Accounts, reviewing WIP narratives, updating or adding detail as required and checking for accuracy.
Providing draft accounts to Costing Solicitors for review.
Providing ad hoc administration as required for the broader team.
What you'll bring
Prior experience as a Paralegal will be highly regarded. Previous experience as an Administration Assistant/Accounts Officer in a professional services environment will also be considered favourably.
Strong statistical and numerical understanding of data.
Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
A commitment to truly connect with those around you and work together to deliver exceptional results for our clients.
Ability to work as part of a team with competing priorities.
Strong MS Office skills in particular Excel.
The ability to work 38 hours per week, between the hours of 8:15am – 5pm Monday to Friday.
Shine Lawyers: A place for you. It means more here.
At Shine, purpose really matters.
It's our clients, who summon the courage to stand up to injustice.
It's the communities we are part of and support every day.
It's our team, who champion what's right and make this place what it is.
We're an ASX-listed organisation, and we've been standing up for the rights of everyday Australians for more than 45 years. We've achieved a lot but you'll find no airs and graces here. We're humble yet relentless. We don't pretend to be anything other than ourselves. And together, we've created a place for you to thrive.
Here are some of the things we hope you'll love about working with us:
Connect and be you: Get the benefits you need, and work with truly authentic people. And you can enjoy the security of a large, well-established firm that treats you as a person, not a number.
Challenge and be challenged: We're not here for "easy". We want you to take your place at Shine and make a real impact. Question and challenge - that's how we grow.
Achieve and grow: Start your Shine journey with our in-house learning programs, where you'll find immediate connection and be set up for success. You will be provided real opportunities to step up and grow - within your role and beyond.
Visit https://www.shine.com.au/careers/life-shine to find out more and read the stories of our incredible people.
Excited to join us and stand up to injustice? Join us and build a career that means so much more.
Apply now and make Shine Justice a place for you.
As part of The Circle Back Initiative, we want you to feel supported through our recruitment process, which means that you will hear back from our friendly team – no matter the outcome.
We are committed to making Shine Lawyers a place for you by encouraging and supporting our people to bring their authentic selves to the workplace, and as a result, we know you'll put your best self forward while righting wrong for our clients. We're passionate about maintaining a diverse and inclusive environment here at Shine that celebrates all of our differences with age, disability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, to name a few, and we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates. You bring you.
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