Legal Cashier

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