Compliance Cashier Supervisor

Mayer Brown LLP; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Compliance Cashier Supervisor to join their Financial Operations team in London. This role is pivotal in ensuring statutory compliance and enhancing financial operations across multiple international offices. The ideal candidate will drive change through effective project management and system improvements, while fostering a collaborative environment. With a focus on excellence and client service, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact within a dynamic team. If you possess strong leadership skills and a proactive approach, this role could be your next career step.

Qualifications

• Significant legal finance experience required, focusing on statutory compliance.
• Extensive experience in legal finance processes and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with SRA Accounts Rules and internal policies.
• Lead finance projects and manage internal audits for compliance.
• Supervise team members and maintain training plans.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Leadership

Project management

Data interpretation

Job description

Overview

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognised by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial and collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realise their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Financial Operations department in our London office as a Compliance Cashier Supervisor.

Reporting to:

Director: Financial Operations

Purpose of the role:

The role is responsible for ensuring statutory compliance within the finance operations team for the firms London office which also incorporates the day to day financial operation processing for the firms Brussels, Dubai and Tokyo offices, creating a centre of excellence

This is a proactive role seeking to achieve full compliance with the SRA Accounts Rules and adherence to internal financial controls and policies in relation to all transactions and processes. The role is to drive through change and deliver a best in class service to the firm and its clients.

You will be a lead in the finance projects and initiatives which will drive through efficiencies via people and system development. You will be responsible for maintaining the departments resources and policy materials as well as training plans. The role will also be responsible for the delivery of the firms annual audits. The Compliance Supervisor will work closely alongside the Director of Financial Operations to ensure compliance and development of systems and working practices to improve the service delivered - continually striving for excellence.

Hours:

Monday to Friday 9.30 am to 5:30 pm with flexibility in accordance with the needs of the business.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring compliance with the SRA Accounts Rules through continued system and process review
• Ensuring that all financial controls and the firms policies and procedures are adhered to
• Daily review of exception control reporting ensuring activities meet compliance requirements
• Maintaining reporting requirements such outcome focused regulation - breach register. Leading monthly meetings to review breaches, working with finance supervisors to make recommendations and implement system and process improvements
• Responsible for preparation and delivery of the monthly COFA board pack. Preparation to include analysis of any breaches (if applicable), department updates, resourcing, projects, training and initiatives
• Lead point of contact for the SRA AR audit; managing the end to end audit process, the main point of contact with the firms reporting accounts, managing internal resource and pro-actively providing regular updates to senior stakeholders, ensure the prompt delivery of the accountants report
• Leading on internal audit. Following SRA AR audit protocols and applying to our own internal department audit. Make recommendations to processes and procedures to ensure compliance and deliver resource efficiency
• Point of contact for Accounts Rules queries. As well as the point of contact for statutory updates and articles in relation to the rules. A pro-active member of the ILCA
• Maintaining segregation of duty through control over the departments systems including, accounting software, electronic banking platforms, account payable modules
• Develop and maintain department registers including bank account registers, bank mandates, credit card register, system access matrix
• Key contact with the Global Financial Applications team to drive through system enhancements and act as the point of contact for system queries
• Pro-actively engage with wider business on process improvements. Continually gathering feedback and improving the customer experience
• Working with the Director of Financial Operations on all finance related projects. Managing internal and external key stakeholders. Managing effective communication and successful delivery of projects within the agreed timeframes
• Lead on the departments business planning and requirements, analysing issues, reviewing options to aid the decision making
• Ownership of the finance operations team process mapping, change controls, and departmental documentation. Work with the finance operations teams supervisors to develop streamlined processing functions which benefit the local and global business
• Maintaining the departments training and development plan. Ensuring mandatory training is completed and regular refresher courses are introduced. Build an internal communication forum where all finance teams knowledge share. Extending the knowledge share to the wider business community
• Maintaining and updating all resource material and streamlining the departments data architecture
• Perform regular analytics of finance data to ensure compliance and deliver improved department efficiency
• Ensure the department meets all service level agreements
• Supervising team member(s) covering workloads, resource planning, training
• Delivering timely feedback on performance (both day to day and formal appraisals), identifying training needs, managing delivery and providing general support.
• Ad hoc projects and duties with the Head of Financial Operations as required

Qualifications

Experience:

• Significant legal finance experience required from a professional services firm, with particular focus on statutory accounts rules compliance including, SRA AR, AML and VAT.
• Extensive experience in legal finance processes and procedures.
• Experience in managing projects and successful implementation, report writing, ability to interpret data and present on the finding.

Skills:

• Exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written - Ability to communicate with people at all levels within the firm.
• Professional manner at all times.
• Confident and respected leader.
• Ability to work under pressure and meeting strict deadlines.

Personal attributes:

• Pro-active and hard-working approach.
• Personable, able and willing to work as part of a team.
• Reliable and well organised.
• Questioning mentality.
• Adaptable and flexible.
• Ability to use own initiative.

At Mayer Brown, we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment that offers our people the opportunity and support they need to succeed.

Our culture promotes mutual respect, acceptance, cooperation and productivity among people from all backgrounds and values different perspectives and ideas.

One of our core values at Mayer Brown is to promote diversity and inclusion at all levels within the business which is actively supported by our diversity networks - LGBT+, Fusion (Race & Ethnicity), Multi-faith, Women, Enable (Disability) and Work and Me (Family).

We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that individuals may require throughout the recruitment process and once they have joined the Firm.

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