Legal Cashier

My client a boutique law firm based in the City of London are currently looking for a Legal Cashier to join their team on a permanent basis. 

Duties include: 

• Answering the telephone;

• Billing – can include unit and narrative changes, posting to the system. If required to generate, amend and email to client.

• Cost Transfer; contact partner to confirm receipt of funds and amount to be transferred to office account.

• Ledger Balances; send reports to the partners for confirming transfer of client funds to office account.

• Assist when required with credit control matters. Producing client statements. Maintaining notes for Credit Control and ensuring that any emails are dealt with promptly, escalating queries as appropriate.

• Prepare reporting using the finance system for the Managing Partner.

• Monitoring the firm's bills bank account for incoming credits, making transfers as necessary in the online banking system as well as banking cheques received in payment of invoices. Entering receipts into our practice management system.

• Taking card payments via the telephone from clients in settlement of invoices.

• Banking of cheques. Reconciling the bank account daily and following up with fee earners and secretaries for any outstanding reconciling items.

• Accounts Payable – monitor invoices that require paying, reporting to the Managing Partner what is required to be paid. Setting up payments on the company banking system, posting payments.

• Payroll – Work in conjunction with the Financial Controller and Practice Manager in setting up payroll on our banking software.

• Monitor the accounts email address.

• Dealing with Finance post.

• Providing the Practice Management team with such additional support in the running of the office as required; and such additional/alternative responsibilities as are reasonably necessary from time to time.

Personality
• You must be a team player in every way and have the capacity to work independently.
• Good attitude to your work. To understand the goal that needs to be achieved with each task, no matter how big or small and to endeavour to do this to the best of your ability.
• Good communication skills. You must have the ability to deal with a situation or deliver a message to both internal and external clients. If support staff do not have the answer to a question, it is important to make the client feel confident that you will revert to them once information is available or to update them otherwise.

Previous experience of Legal Cashiering

Benefits:
• 25 days holiday
• Auto enrolment pension – 3% firm and 5% employee
• Private health 
• 2 days office/3 home 
• Life and Critical Illness cover
• Employee Assistance Programme