Legal Cashier

Eventus Recruitment Cheshire are seeking a Legal Cashier to join a law firm based in Salford, Manchester. This is a full time, permanent job with the opportunity of hybrid working. The role will centre primarily on the cashiering duties jointly with and under the direction of the Senior Legal Cashier. You will benefit from 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, hybrid working, private healthcare cover and contributory pension scheme.

Role Responsibilities

The incoming Legal Cashier will have at least two years’ experience of legal cashiering. Due to the unique nature of the firm, tasks will vary from day to day.

Key tasks include:

* Monitoring the main client and office bank accounts and allocating receipts

* Making online payments through office and client accounts, these will be a mixture of Faster Payments, Chaps and SWIFT

* Responding to email instructions from across the firm to set up/modify recurring transactions and resolve queries relating to our 700 individual deputy client bank accounts

* Liaising with banks to resolve any payment concerns or issues

* Reconciling deputy bank accounts on a regular basis

* Monitoring the online approval queues for our three main banks

* Depositing and withdrawing funds from external deposit accounts (such as NS&I)

* Carers’ payroll – making monthly salary payments for 65+ deputy clients who employ a team of carers and plus checking and paying their pension contributions, tax and NI to HMRC and any attachment of earnings

* Downloading HMLR statements to process through the office account and ensuring the correct VAT is applied

* Monitoring and applying the charges on the firm’s general credit cards, deputy debit cards and cheque control accounts

* Banking and recording cheques into the appropriate account

* Checking property completion statements against client ledgers

* Checking and processing bills

* Monitoring clients residual balances

* Holiday cover for staff expenses & supplier ledger

Person Specification

The successful Legal Cashier will have 2 or more years in a similar legal finance or finance assistant role. Alternatively, you will be able to demonstrate equivalent experience.

You will also possess:

* Good organisational skills essential

* Confident in maintaining documentation in electronic form/PDFs/folders etc

* Essential experience would include use of Microsoft Excel & Word

* Good knowledge of SRA rules

Benefits and Rewards

The incoming Legal Cashier will benefit from joining a friendly and stable accounts team.

You will also benefit from:

* 25 days holiday per calendar year plus bank holidays

* Private health cover following completion of a 3 month probationary period

* Hybrid working

* Subsidised gym membership

* Life insurance at 3 x salary

* Contributory pension scheme

* Attendance bonus scheme

* Annual bonus of a week’s salary on firm hitting billing target

* Additional 1.5 days’ holiday at Christmas (combination of Christmas shopping/closing office at Christmas Eve)

* Assistance with the provision of additional IT equipment and furniture required to set up your home office, if required

About the Company

A top tier Legal 500 firm based in Salford, Manchester are now looking to add to their busy accounts team of 5. They are a firm that are committed to rewarding hard work and providing opportunities to develop their expertise and careers. Furthermore, they have successfully developed their hybrid working structure to benefit each team member and help them find the right work-life balance