Legal Cashier - Northampton, United Kingdom - Shoosmiths

Shoosmiths

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Northampton, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The firm

A leading UK law firm with a network of offices from the South Coast to Scotland, working together as one national team.

An innovative practice and the first top 50 law firm to achieve "Platinum Standard" Investors in People, our values and culture are notjust words on our website but are the heartbeat of the firm.

The team

Our finance team are committed to providing an efficient and accurate service to our legal advisors and to other support functions.

At the centre of this is ensuring that the client and office accounts are kept up to date and invoices are produced accuratelyand in a timely manner.

The role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Legal Cashier to join our Finance team in Northampton on a permanent contract.

You will be working as part of a local team and a larger firm wide department, supplying an efficient and accurate legal cashiering servicefor the Legal Advisers and other support functions.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone preferably with previous experience within a legal finance environment, to broaden their knowledge and gain new skills.

You will need to have excellent communication skills, a keen eye for detail, flexibility,able to manage your own workload within tight deadlines.

Main responsibilities

Sending all CHAPS/International and Faster payments daily within the specified deadlines.
To understand & follow agreed procedures for reviewing and operating Bankline.
To raise, post and distribute client & office cheques to LA's / PA's, this will also include banking. These duties are to be performed on a daily basis.
To reconcile out of date cheques on a regular basis and to report into the Finance Manager monthly.
To carry out any transfers i.e. client to client, matter to matter, client to bill, client to disbursement and disbursement to disbursements in accordance with Shoosmiths policies.
Log anticipated and actual disbursements onto the ledger which should be kept up to date on the accounting system in accordance to our policies.
Post special delivery & other soft charges daily.
To understand the billing process and raise bills on a daily basis.
To understand the process of credit notes/write offs/cancellations/foreign invoices
To have a full understanding of the VAT treatment of overseas clients
Preferable to have knowledge/understanding of E-Billing systems
Run and post all receipts to the ledgers for the worldpay reports and to check for any card payment taken for your local office.

Skills and qualifications

Previous legal experience within professional services
Positive with can do attitude
Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
Good level of IT literacy ie Excel, Outlook etc
Have the ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
Ability to adapt and maintain high standards
Organised with a neat and tidy approach to working practices
Reliability, friendly and helpful approach
Have a flexible approach to working practices
Ability to work as part of a small local team but also the bigger Finance team.

Equal opportunities
Our approach to our people is underpinned by our approach to diversity, inclusion and well being.

Our ambition is to build a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and talents, and a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognisesand nurtures talent, and has a strong sense of community between colleagues.

This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.