Our Client is a full service commercial law firm based in London's legal district. They have more than 60 partners and over 300 employees. The Finance department is made up of a central management team, Cashiers, Billing and Credit Control teams.
They are looking for a Legal Cashier, the successful candidate will have cashiering experience gained within a law firm or other professional services environment.
Responsibilities
- Processing of client and/or office account payments
- Processing client and/or office account receipts
- Processing transfers between client and office account
- Preparation of bank reconciliations and/or peer review of reconciliations
- Preparation and processing of foreign payments
- Processing foreign supplier invoices via Corpay
- Processing disbursements made using Precision Pay/Credit Cards
- Processing, payment and reconciliation of disbursements including Counsel and Experts Fees, foreign and UK disbursement payments
- Posting and checking recharges and items such as couriers, Companies House fees and taxi fares
- Dealing with disbursement write offs
- Making amendments to clients and matters in line with anti-money laundering regulations
- Dealing with client residual balances
- Closure of client matters in line with Solicitors' Accounts Rules
- Petty cash postings and reconciliations
- Preparation of client interest calculations
Candidate Profile
- An in-depth knowledge of the Solicitors' Accounts Rules to ensure compliance with the regulations
- Preferably a knowledge and experience of windows-based packages such as Microsoft Outlook and Word
- Proficient using Excel
- Excellent numeracy skills, attention to detail and organisational skills
- Sound understanding of VAT recovery processes
- Experience in a Cashier's, Finance or Legal environment desirable but not essential
- Knowledge of Elite 3E desirable but not essential
- Understanding of billing and/or credit control desirable but not essential
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 vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.