Client Legal Cashier - #2160791

Our client is an international law firm with offices in New York & London. They are an award winning practice featuring in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For and numerous other industry specific awards.

They have a flexible benefits package that includes; 25 days holiday with ability to buy more, in-house doctor, good pension scheme, private medical insurance, subsidised gym membership and dental cover

The firm currently have an opening for full-time Client Legal Cashier. The Client Cashier will work within a team of two client cashiers and will be supervised in day-to-day operations by the Office Supervisor.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide a high quality legal cashiering function to the firm
• Be responsive to the changing needs and priorities of the department and to provide ad-hoc support to departmental colleagues.
• Allocating and posting of all client funds receipts received via online banking.
• Client to client transfers.
• Treasury, designated & joint deposits, including maintaining diary.
• Daily and monthly bank reconciliations, including all deposit and currency accounts.
• Payments out of all client funds - via online banking, cheque payments.
• Interest calculations, both manual and automatic.
• Foreign currency transactions via online banking.
• Dealing promptly with ad hoc queries presented by Partners, Associates and Secretaries/PA's.
• Liaising with our bank, dealing with any queries.
• Dealing with the opening, closing and maintaining of joint accounts.

Candidate Profile

• Solid legal cashiering experience.
• Strong knowledge of the SRA Rules.
• Excellent IT skills
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Ability to effectively manage own workload but work as part of a team.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels.
• Personable and confident, able to build relationships with partners/ key stakeholders.
• Resilient and calm under pressure.
• Adaptable and flexible approach.
• Pro-active and takes initiative.

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.