Legal Cashier Battersea Salary Negotiable
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Douglas Scott are on the look out for an excellent and proactive and self-motivated Legal Cashier to join our leading client at their office in Battersea. If you are looking for an opportunity to work within a supportive, ambitious, growing and energetic team, and would like to join an award-winning law led professional law firm, we would like to hear from you
This role is perfect for a Legal Cashier who has at least 1 year working as a Legal Cashier Duties and responsibilities of the Legal Cashier: To ensure office money is properly identified and correctly allocated to the office or nominal ledger.
To prepare all office cheques (i.e., office and nominal ledger), ensuring that requests for funds are appropriately authorised and anticipated disbursements converted as appropriate.
To post disbursement invoices to the clients' ledgers daily.
To process all supplier invoices; ensuring that the nominal coding is correct, the invoice is properly approved for payment and payment is made in accordance with supplier terms.
To reconcile supplier invoices with statements and resolve any queries arising.
To process and pay staff expenses claims.
To input petty cash payments onto the system monthly and raise the requisite cheques to maintain the float in each office.
To analyse credit card expenditure and process accordingly.
To process or release CHAPS payments (telegraphic transfers), foreign payments and BACS payments with associated authentication procedures and in accordance with the firm's procedures.
To assist in ensuring all incoming funds are properly identified and allocated to client ledgers, including credit card receipts.
To prepare client cheques, ensuring that requests for funds are appropriately authorised.
To process client related disbursements and recoverable expenses and generate payments as required.
To assist with processing bills, ensuring time recorded, disbursements and recoverable expenses are correctly allocated and VAT correctly calculated.
To archive client ledgers in accordance with fee earner instructions, ensuring either that all balances are clear or that partner approval has been obtained for write offs (if required).
To carry out daily transaction processing and support other team members as necessary to ensure there are no back logs and processing is reliable and complete.
Skills Required: Relevant experience as a Legal Cashier of a minimum of 1 year
High attention to detail and accuracy
Able to prioritise work and cope well in periods of high volume.
Confident and articulate
IT literate with high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
Applies knowledge and judgement to solve problems and make decisions
Experience of delegating to, and training, junior team members
The firm are offering 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and a range of competitive benefits. If you are an experienced Legal Cashier, based in or near Battersea, please get in touch for confidential consideration or send your CV to
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