Legal Cashier

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Job Title: Legal Cashier

Job ID: 43398

Location: Hybrid, able to attend London once a month max.

Job Type: Permanent

Company:

An exciting and growing law firm is looking to bring in a Legal Cashier; the role is mainly home-based but occasional travel is required to London, once a month maximum.

The Legal Cashier role assists all departments in the firm with the end-to-end process of paid disbursements, including developing and maintaining an effective and professional procedure for the management of these disbursements.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Analysing the system ledger to check if the disbursement should be billed to the client or written off, and liaising with the fee earner for confirmation.
• Reviewing the system ledger containing the unbilled disbursement to check if there is money on the client account to pay the bill when raised.
• Liaising with the client contact to obtain a PO before raising the bill and ensuring the PO is added to the bill.
• Creating the bill in P4W, submitting to the client via email, and filing the bill and the email to the client folders in the DMS.
• Ensuring bills that are to be paid with money on the client account are correctly processed at the point of raising the bill.
• Following the financial procedure and authorisation process for the write-off of any unbilled disbursements.
• Building and maintaining good working relationships with the Accounts Operations Team so that unbilled disbursement queries can be resolved in a timely and accurate manner.
• Keeping the Operations Manager fully informed of issues and providing suggestions and solutions to deal with them, as well as ideas for process improvements.

Person Specification:

• Minimum of 5 A-C grades at GCSE or equivalent including grade B in English Language, Literature & Maths;
• At least 12 months recent experience of working within a law firm;
• A high attention to detail to produce work/documentation which is consistently of a high standard;
• Proactive in identifying and raising issues at an early stage to enable effective resolution;
• Good computer skills (competent in Excel and Word);
• Extensive time management skills with the ability to prioritise workload, to have a flexible approach to ensure all deadlines are met;
• Must be able to work as part of a team and possess excellent communication skills both written and verbal;
• Willingness to excel within an accounts environment and keen to learn.

If this sounds like a good match, then please get in touch ASAP as interviews are taking place immediately.

Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Finance

Industries

Legal Services