Legal Cashier

Gateley; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Gateley is seeking a Legal Cashier to join the Manchester office finance team. You will manage client and office accounts, perform daily bank reconciliations, and ensure SAR compliance. The role requires attention to detail, good communication, and experience in a finance environment.

You will work with a driven finance team, handling payments, reconciliations, and financial record-keeping to support the firm's legal operations and regulatory obligations.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of using legal accounting software is desirable.
• 1 year experience in accounts role is desirable.
• IT literate and competent with standard office software.

Responsibilities

• Process and allocate incoming BACS receipts to client and office ledgers.
• Monitor telegraphic transfers and ensure funds are allocated to matters.
• Review payment requests and ensure sufficient funds and proper authorisations.
• Process outgoing TT payments and update ledgers.

Skills

IT literate

Strong communication skills

Telephone manner

Team player

Attention to detail

1 year experience in accounts role

Legal accounting software

Education

1 year experience in accounts role

Tools

Legal accounting software

Job description

The Role

Our dynamic and highly skilled finance team is looking for a Legal Cashier to join the team to be based in our Manchester officer. As a Legal Cashier here at Gateley, you will be responsible for managing client and office account transactions, ensuring accurate allocation of funds, performing daily bank reconciliations, and maintaining compliance with financial and regulatory requirements.

About The Opportunity

Our dynamic and highly skilled finance team is looking for a Legal Cashier to join the team to be based in our Manchester officer. As a Legal Cashier here at Gateley, you will be responsible for managing client and office account transactions, ensuring accurate allocation of funds, performing daily bank reconciliations, and maintaining compliance with financial and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

Client and Office Account Transactions

• Process and allocate all incoming BACS receipts received into the firm's various bank accounts, ensuring postings are made accurately to the correct client and office ledgers.
• Monitor and process incoming telegraphic transfers (TTs), ensuring funds are allocated promptly to the correct matters, and relevant fee earners are notified of all monies received.
• Review all payment requests received by the Accounts team to ensure funds are available, supporting documentation is complete, and the appropriate authorisations have been obtained.
• Process outgoing TT payments through the firm's online banking platform, ensuring transactions are accurately recorded on the accounting system and corresponding ledgers.

Financial Administration and Compliance

• Process counsel and expert fee notes in a timely manner, ensuring compliance with internal procedures and client requirements.
• Perform regular bank reconciliations, investigate outstanding items and allocate direct debit entries as required.
• Manage ADIS payments and office credit balances, ensuring all payments relating to billed matters are processed within Solicitors Accounts Rules (SAR) requirements.
• Support the accurate maintenance of financial records and ensure compliance with relevant regulatory and internal control procedures.

Property and Regulatory Payments

• Process ad hoc Companies House, SDLT and Land Registry payments and related requests as required.
• Assist with the administration and processing of subscriptions across the Gateley Group, ensuring records remain accurate and up to date.

Team Support

• Provide support to the Accounts Payable team during periods of peak workload and operational demand.
• Respond to internal queries and liaise with colleagues across the business to resolve finance-related matters efficiently.
• Undertake additional duties and ad hoc projects as required to support the wider Finance team.

The Team

Our highly skilled and diverse finance team is dedicated to delivering exceptional accounting services to our exciting and dynamic Professional Services Group. We offer a comprehensive range of services that cater to both legal and non-legal businesses within the Group. Our finance team is meticulously organised into several specialised functions, including Group Accounting, Legal Cashiering, Billing, Credit Management, and Purchasing. We pride ourselves on servicing our internal clients to the highest standards, consistently adding value by going above and beyond in our efforts. Our commitment to excellence and proactive approach ensures that we not only meet but exceed the expectations of our stakeholders, contributing to the overall success and growth of the Group.

The Person

Candidates will be able to demonstrate the following attributes:

• Knowledge of using legal accounting software (desirable)
• 1 years' experience in accounts role (desirable)
• IT literate
• Strong communication skills and confident telephone manner
• Previous experience working in an office and or a finance environment (desirable)
• Experience dealing with volume and working to deadlines
• Works well as part of a team Attention to detail and accuracy

About Us

We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and business. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the right answers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that you bring; it's about attitude too.

The 'Gateley Story' is the story of our people and our culture. It is what has got us to where we are today as a successful business and it's the driving force behind the Gateley Team Spirit and the values that have shaped it. We have a set of shared internal values that capture what the Gateley Team Spirit is and this includes five elements that bind us all together as one Gateley: Ambitious for Success, Forward Thinking, Room to Breathe, Trusted to Do and Working Together. Every year across the group, we recognise members of our team that have gone and above and beyond and have lived these shared values. They are recognised at our annual Gateley Team Spirit awards.

The benefits

With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus. In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.

We are Gateley

We are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and business. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

Diversity, inclusion and well being

Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture. We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.

Additional Information

If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability, and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.