Senior legal Cashier Role in Gloucester - CV-Library

Senior legal Cashier Role | Hybrid | Fixed Term up to 16 months | up to £40,000

The Company

My client is in the professional services sector

The role

This is a maternity cover role as the only cashier in the firm, but with support from the wider finance team during particularly busy periods.

You will be responsible for providing an excellent legal cashiering service, including regular international transactions, which is fully compliant.

Key skills & experience

The role includes, but is not limited to:

* Processing all client cash receipts and payments in accordance with firm policies.

* Setting up all client payments in accordance with instructions received from partners, ready for second and final stage approval from the rest of the finance team.

* Reconciling client payments against proposed funds flow statements and ensuring individual client ledgers are reconciled.

* Advising on all client related banking queries including international payments, liaising with our bank contact as appropriate.

* Dealing with any client residual balances or client overpayments

* Calculating client interest in line with the firms Interest Policy

* Handling requests for ‘payments on account’ from clients to be held in client account for specific purposes, ensuring the client ledger is reconciled on application of any funds.

* Managing any breaches register, liaising with the CFO and Deputy CFO.

* Preparing the month end client 3-way bank reconciliation, with supporting client ledger balances and appropriate explanatory commentary regarding the funds

* Acting as the main point of contact with the SAR audit, dealing with all queries as requested.

* Processing all office receipts, ensuring correctly allocated and dealing with any queries

Personal Profile

* You will have strong legal cashiering experience at a senior level and able to demonstrate strong knowledge and understanding of legal cashiering processes and procedures.

* Your experience must include experience of handling international payments, ideally across a range of countries.

* You will, of course, be able to demonstrate strong skills relating to attention to detail, accuracy and prioritisation etc. alongside a thorough and up to date knowledge of the SRA Accounts Rules.

* Usual expectation is for office attendance 3 days / week but for this fixed term contract we could be more flexible. We are also open to considering some flexibility on hours providing that there is cover for some period every day but given the work levels we will need at least 30 hours per week. Part-time hours will be pro-rated for salary etc.

For further information, please contact Rhian Mountjoy

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