Legal Administrator

Salary/Rate:Up to £27000 per annum
Job type:Perm
Location:Leeds, West Yorkshire

About the Role

Sewell Wallis is currently recruiting for an experienced Legal Administrator to join a well-known, established, professional services company based in Leeds as an External Fee Rates Administrator. This West Yorkshire role is a great opportunity to join a business where you can really grow with the business, develop and progress long-term.

The External Fee Rates Administrator reports to the External Fee Rates Supervisor and will be responsible for administering all rates queries firm-wide, adhering to processes, query management and support. Primary responsibilities include:

What will you be doing?

  • Working alongside the Supervisor in assisting with the data collection project and ensuring all non-standard charge out rates and discounts are correctly recorded in the systems and maintained on an ongoing basis.
  • Transferring of the existing "Billing Rules" into "Rate Sets" on Libra by following the current system process flow, ensuring consistency on how rules are recorded and processed across the group.
  • Providing the Supervisor with weekly/bi-weekly updates to ensure all KPI/SLA's targets are met relating to the end-to-end process and escalating when appropriate.
  • Ongoing review of the agreed rates in order to ensure that the agreed terms are adhered to.
  • Providing the client lead on global discount requests by providing supporting material for them to make an informed decision on agreeing/rejecting the proposed discounts globally.
  • Collaborating with the eBilling team, ensuring all new FY rates are uploaded to the relevant eBilling platforms on a yearly basis.

What skills are we looking for?

  • Experience in legal administration or finance.
  • Experience of working within a fast-paced environment.
  • The ability to meet daily/weekly SLA's.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Able to prioritise your own workload to meet deadlines.
  • Strong IT skills.

What's on offer?

  • Hybrid working.
  • Modern offices located in the centre of Leeds, next to good transport links.
  • Working with a supportive, friendly team with scope for progression.

For further details, please contact Emma Johnsen.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.

Job ref: EJ/6238Post Date: 19.09.25

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