Legal Cashier

Bird & Bird LLP; City of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international law firm seeks a Legal Cashier to join their Finance department in London. The role involves managing daily cash receipts, reconciling bank accounts, and ensuring compliance with SARs. The ideal candidate will have experience as a cashier in a legal setting and strong Excel skills. The firm offers comprehensive health benefits and lifestyle perks, fostering a collaborative workplace culture.

Benefits

Private medical cover

Cycle to work scheme

Discounted gym memberships

Qualifications

• Proven experience of working as a Cashier in a legal environment.
• Good inter-personal and communication skills.
• Able to deal with demanding deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Daily allocations of all UK office cash receipts.
• Daily bank reconciliations for all UK accounts.
• Maintenance of a cash flow forecast balance.

Skills

Legal cashiering experience

Knowledge of SARs

Excel skills

Interpersonal communication

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Legal Cashier to join ourAccounts department. The key function of this role is to provide anefficient service to the Firm for Cashiering purposes. This willinvolve regular liaison with Partners, Fee Earners, and Secretaries.The job holder will have responsibility for dealing with all issuesthat arise effectively, providing a first class service to the firm.

Bird & Bird's Finance team's mission is to provide world classfinance support to the business. In London the team comprises circa60 finance professionals across a wide range of areas includingmanagement and financial accounting, transaction processing, partneraccounting, tax, treasury, pricing and commercial decision support.

Key Responsibilities

• Daily allocations of all UK office cash receipts - for USD, EUROand GBP Accounts, ensuring adherence at all times to SARs and firm policies
• Daily bank reconciliations for all UK accounts; reconciliation andposting of all Official fees
• Compilation of Month end Bank rec summaries for Office &Client Account
• Cancellation of out of date Client & Office Account chequesand follow up procedure
• Partner drawings and distributions postings - including bank file uploads
• Maintenance of a cash flow forecast balance for various bank accounts
• Assisting Senior Cashier with Client Account transactionsincluding Manual deposit interest
• Posting of multi-currency supplier disbursement invoices
• Posting and balancing of Supplier invoices from Counsel

What you'll bring

• Proven experience of working as a Cashier in a legal environment
• Knowledge of SARs
• Good Excel skills and a good working knowledge of other MS packages
• Good inter-personal and communication skills
• Able to deal with demanding deadlines and work pressures; hasexcellent organisational skills
• Strong attention to detail, is accurate and consistent

What's in it for you?

We provide comprehensive support for our colleagues' health andwellbeing, including private medical cover, life assurance, criticalillness cover, and regular health assessments. In addition, we offer arange of lifestyle benefits designed to help our team live their bestlives, such as a cycle to work scheme, access to online GPappointments, discounted gym memberships, and an electric vehicle scheme.

Bird & Bird opens up a world of possible for lawyers andprofessionals everywhere. Working for a leading international law firmlike Bird & Bird means working alongside people who are trulycollegiate in the way they work with everyone. We work as one globalteam, with over 70% of work involving people from across the firm. Andthat's only increasing! It's this common purpose and shared approachthat makes for a more productive and collaborative place to work. Yourfirm. Your future.

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