Legal Cashier
- Recruiter
- Mature Accountants Limited
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Salary
- Up to £45,000 p.a.
- Posted
- 30 Nov 2016
- Closes
- 07 Dec 2016
- Ref
- MA GAAP 1578 - Legal
- Job Title
- Accountant
- Category
- Banking and Financial Services, Law, Public Sector
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
My client is a Law Firm based in Central London and can trace its roots back over 200 years of legal practice in and around the Inns of Court.
They are now looking for an experienced full time legal cashier to join their cash room team of 2 where one of the two is retiring.
Duties will include:-
- Dealing all CHAPS payments and other electronic transfers (including BACS payments)
- Liaising with the bank with regard to incoming CHAPS and any other bank queries
- Keeping all client and nominal postings up to date
- Dealing with opening and closing client designated deposit accounts
- Transferring monthly salaries electronically - keying in data to be authorised by a Partner
- Completing daily, monthly and year end procedures
- Bank reconciliations
- Checking and dealing with invoices accordingly
- Preparing and processing VAT returns
- Providing figures for Partners meetings
- Providing information for the firm's Auditors as and when required
- Maintaining Dollar and Euro Accounts
- Checking files for archiving and balances in lieu of interest
- Dealing with queries when required
- Dealing with payroll
- Covering cash room colleague's work as required.
- Creating new client ledgers when required to do so
- Cash allocation
Candidate Profile
- Experience of working in the Legal sector
- Legal cashier experience would be very useful
- Detailed knowledge of the Solicitors Accounts rules
- Knowledge of the Quaestor accounts system helpful but not essential.