Legal Cashier

Walker Morris LLP; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in the UK is seeking an experienced Legal Cashier for hybrid working. The role focuses on cashiering activities in compliance with SRA accounts rules, requiring expertise in dealing with Residual Balances and strong administrative skills. Candidates should have experience in a law firm environment and be proficient in accounting software. The position offers a salary of £26,000 to £32,000 depending on experience, with an annual bonus scheme and flexible working options.

Benefits

Salary reflective of experience

Annual bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Workplace pension scheme

Death in service benefit

Qualifications

• Minimum 20 hours per week required with flexibility on days and times.
• Experience handling client transactions essential.
• Ability to automate cashiering processes.

Responsibilities

• Verify and process payments, receipts, and transfer workflows.
• Handle expense claims.
• Send daily BACS and CHAPS payments.
• Monthly reporting on Residual Balances.

Skills

Experience of dealing with Residual Balances within a law firm

Experience of working as a legal cashier within a law firm

Knowledge of the Solicitors Accounts Rules

Strong administration skills

Knowledge in accounting systems (Aderant, Credit Force)

Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel

Experience of online banking

Client handling skills

Job description

Overview

We are recruiting an experienced Legal Cashier to join our Finance team.

You will be responsible for the day-to-day cashiering activities ensuring Residual Balances are conducted in accordance with the SRA accounts rules.

As the Legal Cashier you will liaise with Partners and Fee Earners throughout the firm and identify ways of automating the cashiering processes along with a heavy focus on client facing transactions.

This role is offered on a hybrid working and on either full-time or part-time basis. The role requires a minimum of 20 hours per week are required with flexibility around number of days and start / finish times with up to full time hours available.

As the Legal Cashier you will :

• Verify and process payments receipts and transfer workflows
• Handle expense claims
• Process Residual Balances in accordance with the Solicitors Accounts Rules
• Send BACS and CHAPS payments on a daily basis
• Monthly reporting on Residual Balances
• Liaising with the Firms auditors on Residual Balances

We are looking for :

• Experience of dealing with Residual Balances within a law firm is essential
• Experience of working as a legal cashier within a law firm is essential
• Good knowledge of the Solicitors Accounts Rules and familiarity of relevant processes is essential
• Ability to demonstrate strong administration skills and a methodological approach to cashiering
• Proficient knowledge in accounting systems such Aderant and Credit Force Residual balance or equivalent is essential.
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel is essential
• Experience of online banking within a law firm
• Experience of handling clients both internal and external
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Some of our benefits include :

• Salary reflective of your experience circa. 2600 to 32000 FTE depending on experience
• Earn up to 10% of your salary with our annual bonus scheme.
• Minimum of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service with the opportunity to buy / sell up to 5 days holiday per year (pro-rata for part-time).
• Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme and well contribute a minimum of 6% of your salary.
• 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.
• Hybrid and flexible working for most roles with 40-60% of your time spent in the office.

Find out more about working at Walker Morris here .

Company Values

Our shared values represent our culture and the things that are important to us. They define who we are as a Firm as an employer and what we expect of our people. They provide direction and purpose by influencing the decisions that we make and the actions that we take. Its really important that all candidates and employees demonstrate these values in their day-to-day activities :

• Embrace the fact everyone is different and unique.
• You can be serious without wearing a suit.
• Never lose sight of the bigger picture.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Take the bull by the horns.
• We win & lose together.

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation gender identity and expression age neuro diversity or disability status family or parental status race religion or ethnicity. Click here to find out more about our diversity and inclusion work.

If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process please dont hesitate to ask. We are a Disability Confident employer .

Key Skills

Administrative Law,Intellectual Property,Employment Law,Advocacy,Legal Research,Contract Law,Criminal Cases,Legal procedures,Law,Legal Operations,Private Practice,Civil Litigation,Federal Courts,Labor Law,Arbitration Law

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1