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KennedyPearce is hiring a Legal Cashier role for a firm in London. This role is fully remote apart from the occasional requirement in the London office.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Reviewing the system ledger to determine whether disbursements should be billed to the client or written off, and coordinating with the fee earner for confirmation.
- Checking the system ledger for unbilled disbursements to ensure there are sufficient funds on the client account to cover the bill once issued.
- Contacting the client representative to secure a Purchase Order (PO) before generating the bill and ensuring the PO is included in the billing process.
- Creating the bill in P4W, sending it to the client via email, and filing both the bill and the email in the client's DMS folder.
- Ensuring that bills to be paid using client account funds are correctly processed when the bill is raised.
- Following established financial procedures and obtaining necessary authorisations to write off any unbilled disbursements.
- Cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with the Accounts Operations Team to ensure prompt and accurate resolution of unbilled disbursement queries.
- Keeping the Operations Manager informed of any issues, providing suggestions and solutions, and proposing ideas for process improvements.
- Collaborating with the Operations Manager to establish a weekly process for handling these tasks and creating a monthly progress report on objectives achieved.
- Keeping accurate, up-to-date records of query statuses.
- Ensuring the filing system remains organised and accurate.
- Sending cases to the Facilities team for archiving once all matter balances have been cleared as a result of this process.
Skills and Experience Required
- Minimum of 5 A-C grades at GCSE or equivalent including grade B in English Language, Literature & Maths;
- At least 12 months experience working within a law firm;
- A high attention to detail to produce work/documentation which is consistently of a high standard
