Legal Cashiering Assistant

2 weeks ago

Chelmsford, United Kingdom Kennedys Full time

Kennedys is looking for a Legal Cashiering Assistant to join our Financial Operations team based in Chelmsford. The successful Legal Cashiering Assistant will contribute to the effectiveness of the Finance department by providing a comprehensive and efficient service to internal and external clients in order that the business objectives of the firm and the department are achieved.

**Team**

Kennedys Finance team support the firm globally producing timely and accurate financial and management information, reporting solutions and operational support to maintain the high standard of service offered to the firm's internal and external clients.

Our Finance team is made up of Financial Control, Financial Planning and Reporting, Management Accountants, Credit Control, Legal Cashiers and Billers and Financial Operations Database teams.

Our UK Finance team is based in Chelmsford and London and have a presence in eight global offices.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Support UK (including Scotland and Northern Ireland), Bermuda & European offices, ensuring compliance with firm's policy and SRA or jurisdictional Law Society accounts rules and regulations at all times
- Accurate and timely process of day to day transactions through firm's office and client
- accounts, including enter/authorise payments on the banking system, post payments/receipts and register disbursement vouchers
- Support various overseas offices including but not limited to Bermuda, Denmark & France ensuring compliance with firm's policy and local Bar Association accounts rules and regulations at all times
- Assist with daily review/allocation of bank statement entries and outstanding unidentified receipts
- Assist with dealing with all internal and external clients in a timely professional, polite and proactive manner
- Manage high volume workflow, maintaining a strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Assist with and resolving day-to-day queries received in to the team
- Inform and update management on complex and time-consuming queries/requests day-to-day workflow is maintained
- Complete daily and periodical exception reporting to ensure all required tasks are completed to prevent breaches of jurisdictional Law Society accounts rules and regulations

**Required experience**
- Flexible and adaptable to deal with changing requirements, able to balance competing priorities
- Excellent attention to detail
- Commitment to delivering a professional service to the highest standards
- Strong IT skills including Excel, Word & Outlook
- Ability to prioritize own workload and achieve deadlines
- Previous experience within a Legal Finance department (preferred)

**About Kennedys**

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,400 people worldwide across 44 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

**What do we have to offer?**

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable,straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

We develop careers in an innovative and collaborative global environment, with our values at the core. We believe that supporting individual growth and development puts us in the best position to attract and retain talented individuals. Regardless of role or level, everyone has access to virtual learning to help you develop your skills, wherever you are in the world. A variety of other exciting opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices as well as a comprehensive benefits package (details are available upon request).

We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust. We deeply value the relationships we build with our clients and we know that they value our warm, friendly human approach. We are here to provide answers, recommendations, strategy and tactics.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is

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