Senior Legal Cashier

Our client is a law firm with origins dating back to the late 1700s, they are now an international law firm with nearly 700 staff located across offices in the UK, Middle & Far East.

They offer a flexible benefits package that includes holidays (buy/sell), pension, gym membership, pension etc. They also have an on-site staff restaurant.

They are looking for recruit a Senior Legal Cashier the successful candidate will be assisting the Head Cashier on a day-to-day basis with the running of Client and Office Account functions, supporting the business with all cashiering tasks.

Job Responsibilities

• Overseeing other cashiers
• Day to day supervision of workloads
• First point of contact for support / queries
• Responsible for checking final stage & 2nd Release at Barclays / RBS online systems
• Operating the cashiering inbox, delegating workflow to the team
• Ad hoc projects from the Head Legal Cashier
• Cover the process of CHAPS payments through online banking, Barclays RBS & Lloyds Bank
• Raising office account cheque payments
• Processing office account cheque receipts
• Entering supplier invoices into Elite and reconciling supplier statements
• Entering counsel fee notes, experts and agents into Elite and reconciling statements
• Processing weekly purchase ledger BACS payment runs
• Monitoring online banking facilities for receipts and payments
• Loading CSV files from suppliers through Excel into Elite
• Chasing internal allocation of rechargeable disbursement
• Processing bank to bank transfers and journals
• Reconciling bank statements with Elite cashbook entries
• Raising client account cheque payments and receipts
• Processing client to client journals, processing client to office bill payments

The Candidate

• Experience working on Client & Office Accounting outlined above.
• Ability to deal with large volumes of work, to prioritise own workload, to manage time and work well under pressure.
• Ability to pay careful attention to detail.
• Knowledge of SARs.
• Knowledge of VAT regulations.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Awareness on Money Laundering regulations that impact on this area of work.

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted, you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful, and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.