Legal Cashier

Leamington Spa – £25,000 - £35,000

LEGAL CASHIER
BIRMINGHAM - OFFICE BASED
£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.

Skills Required:

• 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 rio@douglas-scott.co.uk