Legal Cashier - Northampton, United Kingdom - Shoosmiths

Shoosmiths

Verified Company

Northampton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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 on a permanent basis.

You will be working as part of a local team and a larger support function. This will be supplying an efficient and accurate legal cashiering service.

Thisis a great 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 manageyour own workload within tight deadlines.

This role can be based in Birmingham, Nottingham or Northampton.

Main responsibilities

To process all types of billing (Individual, Multi matter bulk bills, Foreign etc)
Ensuring bills are produced accurately and in a timely manner along with adhering to tight deadlines
Approachable/flexible and keen to learn
To liaise with Shoosmiths staff in a clear and concise manner
To respond to queries in an accurate and timely manner
To process any requests required in accordance with Shoosmiths policies and SAR's.
Review data on the Finance systems ensuring they are accurate and up to date

General Duties:

To understand and ensure compliance with the SAR's in relation to all tasks.
To avoid any breaches of the SAR's.
To ensure that client and office accounts are kept up to date accurately
Be proactive within the Finance team, be willing to make suggestions where they feel it would make the process more efficient.
To cover other team members when required.
To assist all Finance departments across all locations where necessary.
Ensure that any problems are appropriately communicated to your Finance Manager, team leader and Legal Advisors promptly.
Support Lead Legal Cashiers/Legal Billing supervisor if required.
Additional hours required during peak times
This list is not exhaustive, and duties include various other tasks as directed by the Finance Manager.

Skills and qualifications

Previous legal experience within professional services and ideally at least 12 months within a similar role
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.