Legal Cashier – Part Time

We are pleased to be supporting an established legal practice with their recruitment of a Legal Cashier. We are interested to receive applications from experienced candidates with previous Legal Cashiering experience, or previous Accounts Manager experience within a Legal Firm.

In this role you will be reporting directly to the partners and working closely with their 2 sites in the Leicester area. The role will involve you working closely with fee earners to process finance transactions and ensure the smooth running of the finance function. You will need strong technical and communication skills as you will be communicating with clients, suppliers, Partners and other staff members daily.

This will be a hybrid role with one day in the office (Friday).

Duties and responsibilities:

• Dealing with all day-to-day ledger postings to Client and Office accounts
• Reconciling bank, petty cash and general ledgers and control accounts
• Producing monthly reports to all fee earners
• VAT returns
• Processing Purchase ledger Invoices and payments
• Processing payments and transfers daily via an online banking system
• Working with fee earners to ensure matter balances are kept accurate and up to date
• Credit Control
• General administration and housekeeping of files and ledgers
• Ensuring compliance with the Solicitors’ Accounts Rules

Skills and experience required:

• Minimum of 3 year’s previous experience within a legal practice – preferably as the lead cashier
• Attention to detail is key to being successful within this role
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to work effectively on own initiative
• Good understanding of Solicitors Accounts Rules
• Good working Microsoft Office (Excel / Word) and experience of legal software (SOL Ledger / LEAP Accounts)

Salary:

• Circa £30,000 pro-rata
• On-site parking
• 23 days holiday + bank holidays (Christmas closure) pro-rata
• Workplace Pension
• Hybrid role – one day in the office (Fridays)