Legal Cashier

Eversheds Sutherland; Leeds; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Health & wellbeing

Diversity & inclusion

Career development

Job summary

Eversheds Sutherland is seeking a finance operations professional to manage billing and negative cost transactions. You will analyze billing data, collaborate with legal and finance teams, and drive improvements in processes and controls.

In this role you will support month-end closes, maintain documentation, and contribute to governance and reporting. A strong eye for detail and experience with SAP/Excel are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience of billing or legal cashier, finance operations, revenue management or accounts receivable processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to interpret financial data and investigate transactional issues.
• Proficient in SAP, financial systems and Microsoft Excel.

Responsibilities

• Review, investigate and resolve negative cost transactions identified through regular financial reporting.
• Run and analyse reports to identify billing anomalies, credit balances, unrecovered costs and transactions requiring corrective action.
• Liaise with legal teams, local finance teams and operational stakeholders to validate transactions and agree appropriate resolutions.
• Process and manage internal billing activities in accordance with established procedures and controls.
• Monitor, reconcile and clear suspense and temporary ledger accounts, ensuring timely resolution of outstanding items.
• Support month-end and year-end financial close activities by ensuring accurate accounting and billing records.

Skills

Billing experience

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

SAP proficiency

Excel proficiency

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

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What to expect

For business professionals, our environment is highly collaborative with value being placed on diversity of ideas, skills and mindsets. Not least yours. It’s energetic, fast-moving and there’s always something new to get involved in.

You will get exposure across geographies and the firm as a whole.

The future is a place of opportunity. Focusing on your success and for what’s next, will ensure you thrive too

Key Responsibilities:

• Review, investigate and resolve negative cost transactions identified through regular financial reporting.
• Run and analyse reports to identify billing anomalies, credit balances, unrecovered costs and transactions requiring corrective action.
• Liaise with legal teams, local finance teams and operational stakeholders to validate transactions and agree appropriate resolutions.
• Process and manage internal billing activities in accordance with established procedures and controls.
• Monitor, reconcile and clear suspense and temporary ledger accounts, ensuring timely resolution of outstanding items.
• Support month-end and year-end financial close activities by ensuring accurate accounting and billing records.
• Maintain accurate documentation, audit trails and reporting to support compliance and governance requirements.
• Work closely with Cash Management, Billing, Revenue and local finance teams to resolve complex billing and accounting issues.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, standardisation and automation within negative cost and billing processes.
• Produce management information and stakeholder reporting on volumes, ageing items, trends and operational performance.
• Ensure all activities are completed in accordance with firm policies, financial controls and service level expectations.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience of billing or legal cashier, finance operations, revenue management or accounts receivable processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to interpret financial data and investigate transactional issues.
• Proficient in SAP, financial systems and Microsoft Excel.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively to deadlines.
• Continuous improvement mindset with an interest in process automation and optimisation.

What’s in it for you?

At Eversheds Sutherland, we provide benefits focused on looking after you: your development, your performance, your financial future and your health, as well as providing the opportunity to make a contribution to the world.

• We’re fair, transparent and equitable
• We share in the success of the firm, reward alignment to our values, going above and beyond and your individual performance
• We support flexible ways of working through our remote working policy and commitment to flexible, agile and hybrid ways of working
• We support your health and performance through our dental, healthcare and wellness support
• We support everything you are and all you bring through our powerful commitment to diversity and inclusion
• We provide a platform for your career, whatever your ambitions through our structured professional and personal training, mentoring and development programs
• We provide experience and opportunity through international and cross-function exposure
• We provide an opportunity to give back through our pro bono work and community engagement
• We help you plan ahead through retirement planning, insurance and assurance

Diversity & Inclusion

At Eversheds Sutherland, “Inclusive” is a core business value. We bring together different skillsets, global mindsets and approaches. We foster diversity of thought and the freedom to put ideas into action. We have an inherent respect for the individual. We have a strong belief in collaboration and teamwork. Sharing ideas, asking questions, solving challenges and meeting our clients’ goals: together.

We want all our people to thrive at work and reach their full potential and we work hard to continue to build a diverse and inclusive culture, monitor and report on our progress and impact, and develop our approach. This is reflected in our policies, systems and processes, and in our work with diversity membership organisations.

Many of our people work flexibly in some way and we are open to considering how we can accommodate flexible working arrangements alongside role requirements. If this is important to you, please talk to us about it during the recruitment process.

We want you to perform at your best during our recruitment process. If there is any adjustment or support you need, please contact us so we can discuss how we can best assist you.