Legal Cashier

My client is a growing international law firm specializing in litigation and dispute resolution, particularly in the insurance, reinsurance, and liability areas. They have offices spanning the globe and over 1000 employees, with headquarters in the City of London and several other offices in the UK.

They are now looking to hire a Legal Cashier on a permanent .

This role is based at the firm’s Essex office.

Responsibilities

Ensure the lodgement of client account cheques in line with jurisdictional Law Society rules and regulations
Management of firms various/settlement funds in line with client, market and regulatory requirements
Processing of daily disbursement payment runs and other urgent office payments for all jurisdictions
Checking and posting very high volume of professional disbursements to correct disbursement type codes, to ensure accurate onward billing in compliance with jurisdictional Revenue tax requirements
Supporting various overseas offices including, but not limited to Bermuda, Denmark & France always ensuring compliance with firm’s policy and local Bar Association accounts rules and regulations
Daily review/allocation of bank statements entries and outstanding unidentified receipts
Dealing with all internal and external clients in a timely professional, polite and proactive manner
Managing high volume work flow, maintain a strong attention to detail and accuracy
Assisting with and resolving day-day queries received in to the team
Informing and updating managements on complex and time-consuming queries/requests day-to[1]day workflow is maintained
Completing daily and periodical exception reporting to ensure all required tasks are completed to prevent breaches of jurisdictional Law Society accounts rules and regulations
Ensuring the lodgement of client account cheques in line with jurisdictional Law Society rules and regulations
Processing client to office transfers in line with jurisdictional Law Society rules and Regulations
Reconciliation and posting of bulk receipts against billing bordereaux, to ensure the immediate identification of mixed receipts
Liaising with Credit Control to ensure prompt identification of unallocated office receipts
Processing of daily disbursement payment runs and other urgent office payments for all jurisdictions
Tracking and writing back of uncashed office cheques as required by firm’s policy
Management and reconciliation of firm’s HMCTS PBA account
Processing of disbursement to GL journals
Sample checking and payment of weekly staff expenses via Chrome River Expense
Managing disbursement ledgers to clear credit balances and unpaid disbursements
Processing vouchers, reconciling supplier statements. firm’s monthly AP run, providing weekly reports in preparation of weekly management meetings.

Candidate Profile

You will possess working knowledge of Legal Billing cycles and WIP, knowledge of Solicitors Accounting Rules and VAT and have attention to detail.
Being self-motivated, demonstrating initiative and being able to prioritise workload will be advantageous.
Having excellent communication skills and good IT skills/ knowledge of financial systems will be required.

Important Notice

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