Legal Cashier

Eventus Recruitment are seeking a Legal Cashier to join a busy Legal Finance Team based in Manchester city centre. This is a full-time hybrid role, working 9-5 Monday to Friday with the option to work up to 3 days remotely at home after probation. You will be able to take advantage of onsite parking and a generous salary. In addition, the firm offers a friendly working environment where the ethos is based around staff being the firms most valuable asset. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to develop their skills and gain experience across all areas of a busy accounts department within a well-established law firm.

Role Responsibilities

The successful Legal Cashier will have a range of responsibilities including:

• Monitoring the main Client and Office bank accounts and allocating receipts
• Making online payments through Office and Client accounts in accordance with their approval matrix.
• Responding to email instructions from across the firm to set up/modify recurring transactions and resolve queries relating to their 800 individual deputy client bank accounts
• Liaising with the firm’s banks to resolve any payment concerns or issues
• Depositing and withdrawing funds from external deposit accounts (such as NS&I & CFO)
• Processing Carers’ payroll
• Downloading HMLR statements to process through the Office account and ensuring the correct VAT is applied
• Monitoring and applying the charges on the firm’s general credit cards, deputy debit cards and cheque control accounts
• Banking and recording cheques into the appropriate account
• Checking property completion statements against client ledgers
• Checking and processing bills
• Monitoring clients’ residual balances
• Posting and paying staff expenses and supplier ledger
• Conducting other tasks as requested

Person Specification

The incoming Legal Cashier will have experience of working in a finance department as a Legal Cashier or a Finance Assistant. In addition, you will have the following skills, experience and attributes:

• You will need to be numerate and accurate, with a keen attention to detail and be able to
• demonstrate a good knowledge of the Solicitors Accounts Rule
• You should enjoy working in a team and have strong communication skills
• Ideally 2 years’ experience of legal cashiering
• Good organisational skills essential
• Confident in maintaining documentation in electronic form/PDFs/folders etc…
• Experience in using Microsoft Excel & Word essential

Benefits and Rewards

My client is committed to being a supportive organisation that keeps the people at the focus. Therefore, they offer a range of additional employee benefits to their Legal Cashiers and Legal Finance Assistants. Benefits include:

• 25 days holiday per calendar year plus bank holidays
• Additional 1.5 day’s holiday at Christmas
• Hybrid working with up to 3 days a week remote working after probationary period
• Private health cover following completion of a 3 month probationary period
• Subsidised gym membership
• Life insurance at 3 x salary
• Contributory pension scheme
• Attendance bonus scheme
• Annual bonus of a week’s salary on firm hitting billing target
• They will assist in the provision of additional IT equipment and furniture required to set up your home office, if required

About the Company

My client is a leading specialist Court of Protection and Private Client law firm and winner of several awards. They pride themselves on delivering 'client-focused practice that strives to deliver a faultless service’ across Manchester City Centre and beyond.Furthermore, they have a team of 80 including many qualified lawyers and experienced professionals who provide a personal, friendly and cost-effective service and have clients throughout England and Wales.

Next Steps

Apply now if your skills and experience align with this Legal Cashier role. Alternatively, if you are interested in learning about this career enhancing Legal Finance job opportunity in Manchester, please send your CV to Jo Hood at the Eventus Recruitment Group via email for a confidential discussion.

If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact me at the details above for a confidential discussion on your career.

The Eventus Recruitment Group are award-winning recruitment specialists operating in the Legal, HR, Finance and Accountancy sectors across the UK. Please note that the years’ experience and / or salary are listed in our advertisements as a guide. We are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role. As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Our privacy policy can be found on the bottom of our website