Legal Cashier (1 year FTC)

We are looking an enthusiastic Legal Cashier with at least one years experience to join a close nit finance team at a leading Commercial Law firm based in London.

Our client is ranked as one of the UK’s leading law firms with nearly 100 partners. They work in a number of practice areas including; Real Estate, Media, Lesiure & Finance. They work with a well-established national and international client base.

Responsibilities

• Raising Office Account Cheque Payments.
• Processing Office Account Cheque Receipts.
• Entering Supplier Invoices into Elite & reconciling supplier statements.
• Entering Counsel Fee Notes, Experts and Agents into Elite & reconciling statements.
• Processing Weekly Purchase Ledger BACS Payment Runs.
• Monitoring Online Banking facilities for receipts and payments.
• Loading CSV files from suppliers through Excel into Elite.
• Chasing internal allocation of rechargeable disbursements.
• Raising Client Account Cheque Payments.
• Processing Client Account Cheque Receipts.
• Processing Client to Client Journals.
• Processing Client to Office Bill Payments.
• Processing Bank to Bank Transfers and Journals.
• Operation of Designated Deposits.
• Cover the Process of CHAPS Payments through online banking. Barclays RBS & Lloyds Bank.
• Reconciling Bank Statements with Elite Cashbook entries.
• Dealing with queries from fee earners and support staff.
• Liaising with the bank.

Candidate Profile

• Experience working on Client & Office Account outlined above.
• Ability to deal with large volumes of work, to prioritise your own workload, to manage your time and work well under pressure.
• Ability to pay careful attention to detail.
• Knowledge of SARs.
• Knowledge of VAT regulations.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Awareness on Money Laundering regulations that impact on this area of work

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual holiday
• Permanent Health Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Season Ticket Loan
• Private Healthcare
• Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanent / temporary / fixed term contract vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.