Legal Cashier

Wiggin; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in Cheltenham is seeking a Legal Cashier for a maternity cover position to enhance their cashiering services. This role involves processing client payments, managing international transactions, and ensuring compliance with Solicitor's Accounts Rules. The ideal candidate will have strong legal cashiering experience and detail-oriented skills. The firm promotes a unique culture with a hybrid working model, offering attractive benefits including 25 days of holiday and private medical insurance.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus birthdays off

Private medical insurance

Permanent health insurance

Opportunity for hybrid working

Qualifications

• Good legal cashiering experience.
• Strong knowledge of international payments.
• Thorough understanding of Solicitor's Accounts Rules.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal cashiering service, ensuring compliance with Solicitor's Accounts Rules.
• Process office and client account transactions.
• Handle international payments and related queries.
• Assist with month-end reporting.

Skills

Attention to detail

Strong knowledge of legal cashiering processes

Problem-solving skills

Ability to work under pressure

Job description

Job Location Cheltenham

Description

This is a maternity cover role within a recently expanded Cashiering and Disbursements team to enhance the team ability to support the wider business needs and driving improvement and efficiency.

About the role

You will be responsible for providing an excellent legal cashiering service, including regular international transactions, which are fully compliant with the Solicitor's Accounts Rules (SAR).

The Role Includes, But Is Not Limited To

• Processing office and client account transactions in accordance with SAR and firm policies.
• Responsibility of IPO account transactions and all related tasks.
• Processing counsel fee and expert invoices including reconciliation of the vendor accounts.
• Support transactional banking queries from disbursement suppliers, bank, international intermediaries, internal "clients" (RM's, wider finance legal teams, BM teams), bank and external clients.
• Advising on all client related banking queries including international payments, liaising with our bank contact as appropriate.
• Review and first release of all client payments.
• Supporting the SRA audit information requirements.
• Strictly following process documentation for key tasks within the role, including deadlines and timescales being set, and working proactively to improve these further, supporting direction received from Financial Controller/Deputy COFA.
• Assisting with month end reporting and duties.
• Ad-hoc requests required by Senior Legal Cashier.

This list is not exhaustive and other duties and projects may be assigned to you commensurate with the general nature of the role.

About You

You will have good legal cashiering experience and be able to demonstrate strong knowledge and understanding of legal cashiering processes and procedures. Your experience must include handling international payments, ideally across a range of countries.

You will, of course, be able to demonstrate strong skills relating to attention to detail, accuracy and prioritisation etc. as well as working under pressure with tight deadlines alongside a thorough and up to date knowledge of the Solicitor's Accounts Rules. You will be resourceful and adept at problem solving, forward thinking, always supporting the department to provide an excellent service to the firm and our clients.

You will be available to commence work by 1 February (ideally much sooner - we would be happy for you to start from January onwards). As a maternity cover role our expectation is that the contract will extend until around May 2027. Our usual expectation is for 50% office attendance for this fixed term contract.

Our Culture

Our culture is unique among law firms - both in what we expect from our people and the way we create value in the industries we serve. We empower our people, expect commitment and excellence, and celebrate when we achieve it.

Our values are at the heart of everything that we do and define Wiggin as a workplace: being visionary, authentic, unified, responsible and excellent across-the-board.

There isn't a typical Wiggin person. We aim to build teams that are diverse in thought, perspective and experience to provide a more rounded service to our internal and external clients.

We operate a discretionary hybrid working model allowing 2 days per week working from home. We offer an attractive remuneration package including 25 days holiday (plus birthdays off), private medical insurance, permanent health insurance and more from your first day of employment.