Senior Legal Cashier

Our client, a highly regarded London-based solicitors specialising in crime, family law and human rights have an opening for an Senior Legal Cashier to join their team, who has good communication skills, is highly motivated and willing to take on new challenges.

They will need to be computer literate and have basic Excel experience. The candidate should have the ability to present information simply and accurately, both orally and in writing and be able to establish and maintain good working relationships within the team and firm.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the cashiering team and assist with queries
• Ensure that requests in the cashiers inbox are dealt with
• Providing cover for team members
• Daily clearing of items on task list
• Review unallocated receipts list and ensure cleared
• Monitor suspense ledgers
• Monitor charity donations ledgers
• Weekly review for potential client to office transfers
• Print cheques (very few)
• Pay in cheques (very few)
• Ensuring Bankline authorisation for above obtained
• Post weekly Legal Aid Agency BACS receipts
• Write off bills
• Write off disbursements
• Keep register of write offs > £2k including reasons
• Manage residual client balances
• Maintain SRA Accounts Rules breaches register
• Review of monthly client and office bank reconciliations
• Setting up new Bankline users
• Setting up new Legal users (online payment system)
• Setting up new Clear Spend users
• Training new / temp staff

Candidate Profile

• Legal Cashiering experience

• Excellent communication skills

• Excellent telephone manner

• Great attention to detail

• Able to work under deadlines

• Excellent time management and organisational skills

• Work on your own initiative

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted, you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanent role on behalf of one of its clients.