Finance Manager/Senior legal Cashier

1 month ago

London, United Kingdom Gherson LLP Full time
Job Description

**Please note that this position will be office based 5 days a week**


Gherson Solicitors LLP is currently seeking to recruit a Finance Manager/Senior legal Cashier to join our expanding Finance Team.


Responsibilities will include:


  • Supervise 2 cashiers and 1 billing clerk, managing daily workloads and acting as the first point of contact for support and queries.
  • Oversee the cashiering inbox, ensuring tasks are completed, acting as a point of escalation for queries, and providing regular reports.
  • Collaborate closely with the Finance Director on projects aimed at streamlining the cashiering and billing processes, as well as reporting and bank reconciliation.
  • Manage the purchase ledger, reconcile supplier statements, credit cards, and counsel fee notes.
  • Address queries from fee earners, support staff, and the bank.
  • Developing relationship with all of our experts (including Chambers) to ensure that fee notes are requested across all matters regularly.
  • Regular review of WIP, along with fee notes requested, ensuring that these are compared to the fees estimated to the client, and communicate with the fee earners when they come close to the limit so they can manage their clients.
  • Monthly case status updates to each client that is being charged hourly to ensure full transparency per Legal Ombudsman guidelines.
  • Raising invoices and sending these to clients, along with chasers where appropriate.
  • Attendance at the billing meetings to update accounts across all matters, in lieu of the fee earners.
  • Actively managing the firm's debt position, which includes following up with clients for payment
  • Providing cover and support to Legal Cashiers and Billing Clark as necessary.
  • Ensure that all transactions are handled in accordance with the SRA Accounts Rules.
  • Responsible for liaising with external auditors, specifically in relation to the Solicitors Accounts Rules Audit.


The skills required for this role will include:

  • A minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar role.
  • Ability to work to deadlines/targets, prioritise and deliver effective solutions.
  • Ability to work well as part of a team and on your own initiative with a positive attitude.
  • Strong analytical skills with an eye for detail.
  • Excellent organisation and time management skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent IT skills and effective use of Case Management and Time Recording Systems.
  • Professional and effective communication with individual and business contacts.



About us


Started by Roger Gherson in 1988, Gherson Solicitors LLP is an award-winning immigration practice in London, specialising in UK immigration, nationality, extradition and human rights law.


Gherson offers services that cover the full spectrum of UK immigration categories, including but not limited to advice on the UK visit visas and the Points-Based system, as well as Innovator, Start-up, partners applications and immigration appeals. Gherson also specialises in complex human rights and asylum claims (private only), and defending extradition request, applications to the European Court of Human Rights, and applications for annulment at the General Court of the EU in respect of sanctions imposed by the Council of the EU.


With over 40 years of experience, Gherson's expertise extends from meeting the migration needs of international business people and UK-based companies to litigation in all UK jurisdictions, and the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.




Gherson Solicitors LLP is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, age, sexuality, gender identification, or physical ability.

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