Legal Cashier

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment; Royal Leamington Spa; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an experienced Legal Cashier to join its impressive Accounts Team in Birmingham. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with a cohesive team of legal professionals, ensuring high-quality cash management and financial accuracy. The firm prides itself on its supportive work environment and offers a competitive benefits package, including generous holiday allowances. If you have a keen eye for detail and a passion for finance within the legal sector, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Competitive benefits package

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years experience as a Legal Cashier.
• High attention to detail and accuracy required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure office money is correctly allocated to ledgers.
• Process supplier invoices and staff expense claims.

Skills

Legal Cashier Experience

Attention to Detail

Microsoft Office Proficiency

Organizational Skills

Problem Solving

Training Junior Team Members

Job description

Legal Cashier
Birmingham
£25,000 - £35,000

A fantastic, leading firm in Birmingham, known to us as a client for many years are keen to add an experienced Legal Cashier to their already impressive Accounts Team.
Based in well-equipped offices in an impressive setting, close to commuter links, the Legal Cashier will benefit from working with a cohesive team of Legal Professionals including Partners, Fee Earners and Support team to deliver a high quality of a full range of Legal Cashier Duties in Birmingham.

Duties and responsibilities of the Legal Cashier:

• To ensure office money is properly identified and correctly allocated to the office or nominal ledger.
• To prepare all office cheques (i.e., office and nominal ledger), ensuring that requests for funds are appropriately authorised and anticipated disbursements converted as appropriate.
• To post disbursement invoices to the clients’ ledgers daily.
• To process all supplier invoices; ensuring that the nominal coding is correct, the invoice is properly approved for payment and payment is made in accordance with supplier terms.
• To reconcile supplier invoices with statements and resolve any queries arising.
• To process and pay staff expenses claims.
• To input petty cash payments onto the system monthly and raise the requisite cheques to maintain the float in each office.
• To analyse credit card expenditure and process accordingly.
• To process or release CHAPS payments (telegraphic transfers), foreign payments and BACS payments with associated authentication procedures and in accordance with the firm’s procedures.
• To assist in ensuring all incoming funds are properly identified and allocated to client ledgers, including credit card receipts.
• To prepare client cheques, ensuring that requests for funds are appropriately authorised.
• To process client related disbursements and recoverable expenses and generate payments as required.
• To assist with processing bills, ensuring time recorded, disbursements and recoverable expenses are correctly allocated and VAT correctly calculated.
• To archive client ledgers in accordance with fee earner instructions, ensuring either that all balances are clear or that partner approval has been obtained for write offs (if required).
• To carry out daily transaction processing and support other team members as necessary to ensure there are no back logs and processing is reliable and complete.

SkillsRequired:

• Relevant experience as a Legal Cashier of a minimum of 2 years
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Able to prioritise work and cope well in periods of high volume.
• Confident and articulate
• IT literate with high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
• Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
• Applies knowledge and judgement to solve problems and make decisions
• Experience of delegating to, and training, junior team members

The firm are offering 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, and a range of competitive benefits. If you are an experienced Legal Cashier, based in or near Birmingham, please get in touch for confidential consideration or send your CV to [e-mail]