Senior Legal Cashier

We have a great opportunity for an experienced Senior Legal Cashier to join our growing Finance department based in our central Bristol office offering some hybrid working.

This position will play a crucial role preparing and processing client and office cash transactions, maintenance of the office and client ledgers, and the preparation of related reconciliations and calculations.

This is a permanent position offering flexibility to meet deadlines as required.

The role

In addition to providing daily support within the Legal Cashiers team, the Senior Legal Cashier will be a liaising with Partners and Fee Earners individually and collectively through the maintenance of client and office cash records and the provision of associated advice. Working across the finance team you will be ensuring that all associated records are up to date and relevant deadlines are met.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Prepare and process international and domestic payments from the firms electronic banking facilities (including regular accounts payable and expenses payment runs) on a daily basis from both office and client bank accounts
• Co-ordinate and communicate the receipt of office and client monies to fee earners on a daily basis and, where appropriate, investigating to ensure compliance with the Solicitors Accounts Rules (SAR) and Money laundering Regulations (MLR)
• Prepare start of day balancing report for all firms bank a/c's and end of day balancing for client funds
• Maintain the client and office ledgers, posting receipts and payments and ensuring full compliance with internal controls and other regulations (SAR and MLR)
• Support the firms treasury management policy, performing transfers and offset calculations
• Prepare daily and monthly bank account reconciliation’s for all client and office bank accounts
• Prepare interest calculations for client accounts on a daily and quarterly basis
• Complete complex bill reversals and repayments to clients where necessary
• Assist with audit work, administrative tasks, compile data, conduct research and undertake special projects as required
• Support the maintenance of the accounts payable ledgers through the opening of supplier and bac's records
• Support other members of Finance in the preparation of financial information as required

 We are looking for someone who

• Has specialist experience of working within a Legal Cashiers position at a senior level within a law firm
• Extensive knowledge of Solicitors Account Rules, Money Laundering Regulations and electronic banking processes
• Can work with minimal supervision and to identify and act on issues which need to be escalated
• Work's collaboratively with colleagues across all aspects of the Legal Cashiers team's work and ensure that issues are addressed promptly, professionally, openly and constructively
• Can work well within a team and communicate and interact appropriately and constructively with customers and colleague
• Communicates and interacts appropriately and constructively with customers and colleagues
• Can follow policies, processes and instructions while making suggestions of improvements
• Has excellent attention to detail particularly numerical accuracy
• Is well organised, has good time management and the ability to prioritise a busy workload
• Has experience of using Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word and Excel

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

Our recruitment process

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.