Legal Cashier

**Legal Cashier**
**North London**
**£25,000 - £35,000**
**The Firm**
My client is a successful, long-established regional practice with an enviable reputation. This North London firm takes on a supportive role within the local community, whilst also providing a professional legal service. The firm’s clients vary from individualsto companies, and the teams are constantly dealing with new work. Due to continued growth and the amount of work coming in, this North London firm is looking to expand their team by adding a Legal Cashier to their team.
**Duties and responsibilities of the Legal Cashier - North London**:

- Checking bills and completion statements
- Checking balances due to clients
- Calculation of interest
- Posting bills and adding and paying anticipated disbursements
- Posting and printing cheques and getting them signed
- Preparing and posting banking
- Taking credit card payments
- Dealing with queries from fee earners and support staff
- Client to office transfers
- Ensuring compliance with Solicitors Accounts Rules
- Client and office accounts postings and reconciliation
- Experience of processing Online banking transactions
- Daily Banking duties
- VAT compliance and money laundering regulations
- Posting any incoming TTs and BACs payments received
- Posting any outgoing TTs payments
- Posting any cheque payments sent out
- Reconciling the accounts
- Dealing with any aged cheques
- Dealing with retentions
- Dealing with the overdrawn accounts on the client accounts so that we do not breach the Law Society rules
- Posting the search invoices to the system
- Reconciling the search accounts
- Making the necessary payments to the search company and then posting the payments to the system
- Dealing with any adjustments on the client’s accounts and the search accounts
- Dealing with inactive ledgers and making sure that these are all dealt with in a timely fashion
- Setting up and closing the deposit accounts and transferring funds from account to account
- Taking any credit card payments and posting the entries to the system
- Dealing with the end of day banking for the credit cards

**Skills required**:

- Excellent numeracy skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently on own initiative and within a team
- Excellent multi-tasking skills and ability to prioritise workload
- Excellent communication skills and experience of working with legal software packages
- Competent with Microsoft products
- A Legal Cashier background of 2+ years (Minimum)