Job opportunity at UNICOMER – ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT – LEGAL

Legal, Office Administration & Management
February 5, 2024
Application deadline closed.

Job Description

THE COMPANY

Come build your career with Unicomer Group!

Unicomer is a dynamic and fast-paced retail organization spanning 24 countries, with over 1000 stores and 16,000 talented and engaged retail professionals across Latin America, the Caribbean and USA. Unicomer Group is the owner of established brands within the Caribbean, including, Courts, Optical, Ready Finance, Radio Shack and Lucky Dollar.   

THE POSITION

We are recruiting an Administrative Assistant – Legal for our Grenada location to manage and monitor all Pre-legal & Legal accounts and to provide administrative support to the Credit department.

You will have the following key accountabilities:

Insurance

  • Ensuring that all insurance claims are verified, validated, and processed on customer’s accounts in a timely manner.
  • Reconciliation of Insurance spread sheet and forwarding to the accountant before the 2nd of the following month.

Pre-legal and Legal

  • Preparing of legal letters to delinquent customers and updating accounts of same.
  • Preparing accounts for press advertisement.
  • Review 181-360 days accounts.
  • Preparing legal accounts for write off.
  • Preparing all accounts and forwarding to lawyers for court action.
  • Appearance at District and High Court.
  • Review all court accounts for further action, advertisement, judgements summons, bench warrants and withdrawals.
  • Follow up with legal and pre-legal customer, calls, letters, and promissory notes.
  • Follow up with lawyers for updates, follow ups and recommendations.
  • Collection of cheques from District Court and lawyers’ offices.
  • Maintain an accurate database of Bad debt Write off (BDW) customer payments, legal letters distributed and status of all litigation matters.
  • Any other duties assigned by the Manager.

THE CANDIDATE

  • Education and Experience:
  • Certificate in Legal Administration or Minimum Qualifications of Five (5) General CXC passes inclusive of Mathematics and English.
  • Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in related field.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Competence in Microsoft Office
  • Telephone etiquette
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • The ability to operate standard office equipment, fax machine
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Organized with the ability to work well with little or no supervision and in a team environment
  • The ability to make simple arithmetic calculations
  • People Management skills
  • Critical thinker who displays accuracy and attention to detail
  • Highly organized and results-oriented
  • Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple tasks simultaneously

WHY JOIN UNICOMER?

You will be a key contributor with the largest retailer in the OECS and you will work with a team of great people who use their talents every day to bring value home to our thousands of customers.

We are Caribbean at heart, value diversity as well as the immense passion and flavor our people bring to the workplace. We are therefore keen on building and preserving our community and culture.

We also offer a highly competitive total rewards package and provide excellent growth opportunities cross functionally.

LOCATION

Grenada

INTERESTED?

Please join us!  Send your completed application and CV to humanresource_grn@unicomer.com. The deadline for receiving applications is Friday, 16th February 2024.

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