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Legal Cashier

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
Posted a day ago, valid for 25 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Salary

£24,000 - £28,800 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The position is for an experienced Legal Cashier at a leading firm in Camden, offering a negotiable salary.
  • Candidates should have a minimum of 1 year of relevant experience in a similar role.
  • The role involves a variety of responsibilities including processing invoices, preparing cheques, and managing client ledgers.
  • The firm provides 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays and other competitive benefits.
  • Interested applicants should send their CV for confidential consideration.
Legal CashierCamden - HybridSalary Negotiable A fantastic, leading firm in Camden, known to us as a client for many years are keen to add an experienced Legal Cashier to their already impressive Accounts Team.Based in well-equipped offices in an impressive setting, close to commuter links, the Legal Cashier will benefit from working with a cohesive team of Legal Professionals including Partners, Fee Earners and an established accounts team to deliver a high quality of a full range of Legal Cashier Duties in Camden. Duties and responsibilities of the Legal Cashier:
  • To ensure office money is properly identified and correctly allocated to the office or nominal ledger.
  • To prepare all office cheques (i.e., office and nominal ledger), ensuring that requests for funds are appropriately authorised and anticipated disbursements converted as appropriate.
  • To post disbursement invoices to the clients’ ledgers daily.
  • To process all supplier invoices; ensuring that the nominal coding is correct, the invoice is properly approved for payment and payment is made in accordance with supplier terms.
  • To reconcile supplier invoices with statements and resolve any queries arising.
  • To process and pay staff expenses claims.
  • To input petty cash payments onto the system monthly and raise the requisite cheques to maintain the float in each office.
  • To analyse credit card expenditure and process accordingly.
  • To process or release CHAPS payments (telegraphic transfers), foreign payments and BACS payments with associated authentication procedures and in accordance with the firm’s procedures.
  • To assist in ensuring all incoming funds are properly identified and allocated to client ledgers, including credit card receipts.
  • To prepare client cheques, ensuring that requests for funds are appropriately authorised.
  • To process client related disbursements and recoverable expenses and generate payments as required.
  • To assist with processing bills, ensuring time recorded, disbursements and recoverable expenses are correctly allocated and VAT correctly calculated.
  • To archive client ledgers in accordance with fee earner instructions, ensuring either that all balances are clear or that partner approval has been obtained for write offs (if required).
  • To carry out daily transaction processing and support other team members as necessary to ensure there are no back logs and processing is reliable and complete.
Skills Required:
  • Relevant experience as a Legal Cashier of a minimum of 1 year
  • High attention to detail and accuracy
  • Able to prioritise work and cope well in periods of high volume.
  • Confident and articulate
  • IT literate with high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
  • Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
  • Applies knowledge and judgement to solve problems and make decisions
  • Experience of delegating to, and training, junior team members
The firm are offering 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and a range of competitive benefits. If you are an experienced Legal Cashier, based in or near Camden, please get in touch for confidential consideration or send your CV to

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.