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Description

Lakefield LLP (formerly WMCZ Lawyers) is a Saskatchewan team with a modern take on law.
We currently have an opening for a Real Estate Legal Assistant/Accounting Clerk. Your days will be split between daily accounting activities and daily real estate activities.

1.    General Real Estate Activities:
    Receiving and reviewing conveyancing instructions from real estate agents and financial institutions.
    Drafting transfer, mortgage, and discharge documents.
    Preparing ancillary documents such as statements of adjustments and affidavits.
    Written and oral communications with clients, banks, real estate agents, and other law firms.
    Registering documents and performing various due diligence searches at Information Services Corporation of Saskatchewan.
    Preparing, registering, and discharging Builders Liens, judgements, interests, Personal Property Registrations, etc.
    Surviving Joint Tenant and Transforms.
    Handling large monetary transactions.
    Meeting with clients as required, including Commission and/or Notarizing of documents as required.
    Performing related clerical duties, such as word processing, maintaining filing and record systems, faxing, telephone calls, and photocopying.
    Provide additional clerical and administrative support as required.
2.    General Accounting Activities:
    Calculating, preparing and issuing documents related to accounts using computerized systems.
    Processing accounts receivable/payable in a timely manner.
    Responding to telephone and written enquiries from clients.
    Maintaining records on past due accounts and following internal office procedures for collections of accounts.
    Maintaining subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, and posting transactions.
    Creating and preparing cheques.
    Reconciling supplier statements and accounts.
    Daily deposits of incoming funds.