Wise May are looking for a Legal Cashier to join a progressive Law Firm based in the City. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a friendly, collaborative team to undertake all routine cashiering tasks, specialising on the client account.
Full time, 6 Month Fixed Term Contract, with hybrid working (3 days in the office, 2 days remote), the hours are 9.30am-5.30pm.
Legal Cashier duties and responsibilities include:
- Helping to ensure that the firm is compliant with the SRA Accounts Rules and reporting breaches to the Cashiering Manager.
- Daily office account bank reconciliations and client account bank reconciliations.
- Reviewing reconciliations when the Cashiering Manager is absent.
- Daily review of the client account, identifying and allocating receipts and transferring to office account.
- Processing of CHAPS/BACS and posting to the client and office ledgers.
- Transfers of time, disbursements and expenses between matters and ensuring all are completed within the SLA time frames.
- Processing journals on the client account, office account and the nominal ledger.
- Manual interest calculations on client account balances and crediting interest to client account.
- Maintenance of special time rates
- Dealing with aged client account balances.
- Posting of bills and credit notes in compliance with the SRA Accounts rules and SLA Dealing with day-to-day internal billing queries.
- Processing anticipated disbursements and managing the process of identifying disbursements due for payment and paying them in accordance with the Solicitor’s Accounts Rules.
- Preparation of reconciliations and statistical information for clients.
- Editing and reversing timesheets and converting time to non-chargeable.
Legal Cashier key skills and experience required:
- A detailed knowledge of the SRA accounts rules.
- Experience of working within a busy multi-partner legal practice, with proven experience in legal cashiering.
- Computer literacy particularly in Excel, together with a working knowledge of financial systems associated with billing and cashiering.
- Sound knowledge of the accounts function in general is essential to understand the flow of work through the department and the importance of completing each part of the process.
- High attention to detail and ability to work to tight deadlines.
Benefits:
- Wellbeing Wednesdays
- Sports and Social clubs
- Volunteering days
- Subsidised restaurant on site
- 25 days annual leave
- Life insurance
- Law Care
- Enhanced Statutory Maternity, Paternity, Shared Parental & Adoption pay