Legal Cashier Assistant

This full-service prestigious corporate UK law firm wish to hire an Legal Cashier Assistant to support with firmwide legal finance transactions.

Salary £32,000

Hybrid Working - 3 days office 2 remote - Hours - 9.30am to 5.30pm

Liverpool St / City

The firm require a promising Legal Cashier Assistant eager to learn and develop their career in legal finance. You will ideally have current experience in a legal accounts department handling office and client accounting tasks in accordance with Solicitors Accounts Rules. The Legal Cashier Assistant will work directly with the Cashier Manager and working a small finance team.

Legal Cashier Assistant responsibilities include

• Dealing with receipts and paying office account disbursements
• Transferring funds between office and client accounts

• Reconciliation of the firm’s credit card account
• Processing CHAPS payments when required
• Answering queries from Partners and Business Services groups

• Processing payments through bank
• Filing of all client account bank statements
• Updating the Cashier Manager with any SRA account rule breaches and assisting with the annual SRA Audit
• Liaising with the business to solve account queries prior to postings
• Support on bills postings and issuing credit notes

Legal Cashier Assistant requirements

• Minimum of 1 years' experience operating as a Legal Cashier or Accounts Assistant, preferably in the legal sector
• Strong academics, studying AAT beneficial but no essential
• Current knowledge of VAT, SAR and AML procedures