Legal Cashier
Shrewsbury - Office Based
Salary £26K - £32K 

A fantastic, leading firm in Shrewsbury, known to us as a client for many years are keen to add an experienced Legal Cashier to their already impressive Accounts Team.
Based in well-equipped offices in an impressive setting, close to commuter links, the Legal Cashier will benefit from working with a cohesive team of Legal Professionals including Partners, Fee Earners and Support team to deliver a high quality of a full range of Legal Cashier Duties in Shrewsbury.

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 Shrewsbury, please get in touch for confidential consideration or send your CV to