Legal Cashier

Job title:

Legal Cashier

Company

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment

Job description

Newcastle Upon Tyne – Salary negotiable based on experienceLegal CashierNewcastle – Office BasedA fantastic, leading firm in Newcastle, are keen to add an experienced Legal Cashier to their already impressive Accounts Team.The Legal Cashier will benefit from working with a cohesive team of Legal Professionals m to deliver a high quality of a full range of Legal Cashier DutiesDuties and responsibilities of the Legal Cashier:

  • To ensure office money is properly identified and correctly allocated to the office or nominal ledger.
  • To prepare all office cheques (i.e., office and nominal ledger), ensuring that requests for funds are appropriately authorised and anticipated disbursements converted as appropriate.
  • To post disbursement invoices to the clients’ ledgers daily.
  • To process all supplier invoices; ensuring that the nominal coding is correct, the invoice is properly approved for payment and payment is made in accordance with supplier terms.
  • To reconcile supplier invoices with statements and resolve any queries arising.
  • To process and pay staff expenses claims.
  • To input petty cash payments onto the system monthly and raise the requisite cheques to maintain the float in each office.
  • To analyse credit card expenditure and process accordingly.
  • To process or release CHAPS payments (telegraphic transfers), foreign payments and BACS payments with associated authentication procedures and in accordance with the firm’s procedures.
  • To assist in ensuring all incoming funds are properly identified and allocated to client ledgers, including credit card receipts.
  • To prepare client cheques, ensuring that requests for funds are appropriately authorised.
  • To process client related disbursements and recoverable expenses and generate payments as required.
  • To assist with processing bills, ensuring time recorded, disbursements and recoverable expenses are correctly allocated and VAT correctly calculated.
  • To archive client ledgers in accordance with fee earner instructions, ensuring either that all balances are clear or that partner approval has been obtained for write offs (if required).
  • To carry out daily transaction processing and support other team members as necessary to ensure there are no back logs and processing is reliable and complete.

Skills Required:

  • Relevant experience as a Legal Cashier of a minimum of 1 year
  • High attention to detail and accuracy
  • Able to prioritise work and cope well in periods of high volume.
  • Confident and articulate
  • IT literate with high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
  • Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
  • Applies knowledge and judgement to solve problems and make decisions
  • Experience of delegating to, and training, junior team members

If you are an experienced legal cashier based in Newcastle, please send your CV to georgia@douglas-scott.co.uk

Expected salary

Location

Newcastle

Job date

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 06:31:14 GMT

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