Cashier

Fox Williams offers a unique opportunity to advance your career in a personable, progressive and entrepreneurial environment.  Our people and culture are important to us and central to everything we do. We continually strive to create and maintain a friendly and supportive environment for our staff.   You will quickly get to know everyone from the Senior Partner to the most junior staff.  Whilst we are recognised for our strong culture and investing in our people, we are equally well known for our high profile matters, quality of our work and solving our clients’ most complex legal issues. 

Working with the Cashiering Manager, Junior Cashier and Accounts Payable. You will be primarily responsible for all routine cashiering tasks with an emphasis on the client account. Providing cover for the Cashiering Manager and Junior Cashier in their absence.

Cashiering:

Helping to ensure that the firm is compliant with the SRA Accounts Rules and reporting breaches to the Cashiering Manager.

Daily office account bank reconciliations and client account bank reconciliations or reviewing reconciliations when the Cashiering Manager is absent

Daily review of the client account, identifying and allocating receipts and transferring to office account Processing of CHAPS/BACS and posting to the client and office ledgers

Transfers of time, disbursements and expenses between matters and ensuring all are completed within the SLA time frames

Processing journals on the client account, office account and the nominal ledger.

Manual interest calculations on client account balances and crediting interest to client account. Maintenance of special time rates

Dealing with aged client account balances

Liaising with fee earners and resolving accounting queries

Billing:

Posting of bills and credit notes in compliance with the SRA Accounts rules and SLA Dealing with day-to-day internal billing queries

Processing anticipated disbursements and managing the process of identifying disbursements due for payment and paying them in accordance with the Solicitor’s Accounts Rules.

Preparation of reconciliations and statistical information for clients

Editing and reversing timesheets and converting time to non-chargeable

Other Tasks:

Any other duties as directed by the Cashiering Manager and Finance Director

This role has an expectation of a detailed knowledge of the SRA accounts rules

It requires experience of working within a busy multi-partner legal practice, with 3-4 years’ experience in legal cashiering.

A relevant qualification (or study towards it) such as from the Institute of Legal Finance and Management or equivalent, is desirable

Computer literacy particularly in Excel, together with a working knowledge of financial systems associated with billing and cashiering.

Sound knowledge of the accounts function in general is essential to understand the flow of work through the department and the importance of completing each part of the process.

Given there will be continual interaction with partners and staff outside the finance department, good people skills and ‘willing to go the extra mile’ attitude is essential

Demonstrable evidence of being able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines is an advantage