Legal Cashier

• Bank Reconciliations: Performing daily and monthly bank reconciliations, ensuring all discrepancies are promptly investigated and resolved
• Incoming Payment Postings: Process accurate and timely posting of incoming payments, ensuring all transactions are recorded in compliance with internal policies and Solicitors Accounts Rules, that legal teams are promptly notified of ledger transactions relevant to their matters. And posting client to office transfer where applicable
• Unrecognised Fund Allocation: Work proactively on the daily investigation and allocation of unrecognised funds receipts, ensuring each transaction is promptly investigated and allocated to the appropriate matter, liaise confidently with the legal teams on each investigation to optimise prompt resolution of unallocated funds
• Multi-matter disbursements: Processing and allocation of multi-matter disbursement invoices to the correct matter ledgers, ensuring high levels of accuracy, optimising billing opportunities for recovery of disbursements across the business
• Cheques
• Processing incoming and outgoing cheques on a rota basis (must be willing to travel to Birmingham office regularly.)
• Compliance: Ensure all financial activities comply with Solicitors Accounts Rules and internal policies
• Stakeholder Relationships: Be an SME within your designated team, building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, providing excellent customer service and support to both internal BusOps and the wider legal teams
• Collaboration: Undertaking projects and any other tasks as directed by the Central Team Leader, including supporting the brand teams at busy periods, signposting queries in relation to specific brands to the relevant team, resolving issues and general queries to ensure high level of customer service
• Systemisation: Provide recommendations on systemisation opportunities around internal processes to improve efficiencies in line with SARs

• Proven experience in a similar role within a law firm
• Strong knowledge of the Solicitors Accounts Rules
• Experience of working with Aderant
• Proficiency in financial software and Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Strong ethical standards and integrity

Experience of working with Aderant

• Agile working
• blended approach to where and how we work
• flexibility
• value what you do, not where you do it