Ideal Personnel & Recruitment Solutions Limited Looking for Legal Cashier at Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire Full Time
Our client has a permanent vacancy for a full or part-time Legal Cashier to deal primarily with the office account, nominal postings and purchase ledger. Reporting to the Practice Manager, there will be some overlap with the full-time Cashier. The successful applicant will be flexible in their working approach and be available to cover holidays and sickness when required.
This is a busy, demanding role where accuracy and attention to detail, professionalism and speed are essential. The work is varied and you will interact with most of the other members of the firm in your day-to-day duties. Knowledge and experience of using MS Office including Excel required as well as strong verbal and written communication skills.
Main responsibilities will be:-
Posting entries for Office account, standing orders and direct debits
Posting of sales invoices, purchase ledger invoices and payments
Inputting bills to the client ledgers
Reconciling and posting petty cash entries for the 4 offices as required
Monitoring and cancellation of stale cheques
Complying with Solicitors Accounts Rules, Money Laundering Regulations and VAT requirements in all aspects of the role
Opening new Client/Matter records for clients
Processing all inward payments by reference to online banking service
Processing cheques received/responsibility for banking
Raising cheques requested by file holders
Maintaining client records by closing accounts records when matters are finished
Arranging payment of search fee invoices
Posting of Land Registry entries and Court fees
Adhering to cyber security
Additional duties during busy periods/holiday cover:-
Checking of invoices/completion statements as required
Raising electronic payments requested by file holders, including property completions
Calculating and applying client interest as required
Monitoring and chasing any unapplied credits posted to Suspense account
Dealing with any telephone queries from all offices
Making transfers between Client and Office accounts at the bank as required
Dealing with daily outward post for Accounts
Recording any breaches and notifying COFA
Investigating and resolving any unposted items
Previous experience of working as a legal cashier or book-keeping experience is required.
Full time hours of work would be 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, but part-time applications are also welcome.
Due to the large number of responses we receive it is not always possible to respond to every application. We will only contact those candidates short-listed for this role. If you have not heard from us within 7 days please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. If you wish to apply for further roles please do so. We will retain your details on file and contact you should a suitable vacancy become available.
