Legal Cashier Job at Douglas Scott (Birmingham)

Job Description

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.

Job Responsibility

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

Requirements

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

What we offer

30 days holiday plus bank holidays
Competitive benefits

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