Sole Legal Cashier

A rare opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Legal Cashier to join a small Manchester City Centre Personal Injury law firm as a sole legal cashier.  You will be working closely with the managing director, dealing with the full legal accounts on a daily basis.

You must have previous experience working as a legal cashier and be confident in working as a sole legal cashier.

• Undertake daily banking functions including bank reconciliations
• Processing of client and office accounting transactions including postings and cheque production.
• Ensure all cheques are written on correct amounts and Client Account is never allowed to overdraw
• The processing of client bills to include checking and posting
• Input and production of nominal cheque requests
• Assist processing automatic and manual payments runs by BACS and cheque
• Assist processing of bank transfers
• Perform month end procedures
• VAT and administration and returns
• Processing of travel and other expenses
• Money laundering checks as required
• Deal with enquiries from fee earners and other staff members
• Deal with enquiries and payments from clients and third party companies
• Administration and reconciliation of petty cash (where appropriate)
• Support the operation of the departments credit control system
• Support the operation of the practices accounting systems and PAYE scheme
• Ensure all authorised invoices are dealt with in a timely manner
• Ensure that all closed accounts are authorised and that nil balances are achieved before archiving
• Manage own work allocation, productivity and quality of work with minimum supervision