Legal Cashier

Posted 30 January 2025
Salary £27000 - £27500 per annum
LocationCity of London
Job type Permanent
Discipline Accounting & Finance
ReferenceLC1_1738261967
Contact NameSherine Rose

Job description

KennedyPearce is hiring a Legal Cashier role for a firm in London. This role is fully remote apart from the occasional requirement in the London office.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Reviewing the system ledger to determine whether disbursements should be billed to the client or written off, and coordinating with the fee earner for confirmation.
  • Checking the system ledger for unbilled disbursements to ensure there are sufficient funds on the client account to cover the bill once issued.
  • Contacting the client representative to secure a Purchase Order (PO) before generating the bill and ensuring the PO is included in the billing process.
  • Creating the bill in P4W, sending it to the client via email, and filing both the bill and the email in the client's DMS folder.
  • Ensuring that bills to be paid using client account funds are correctly processed when the bill is raised.
  • Following established financial procedures and obtaining necessary authorisations to write off any unbilled disbursements.
  • Cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with the Accounts Operations Team to ensure prompt and accurate resolution of unbilled disbursement queries.
  • Keeping the Operations Manager informed of any issues, providing suggestions and solutions, and proposing ideas for process improvements.
  • Collaborating with the Operations Manager to establish a weekly process for handling these tasks and creating a monthly progress report on objectives achieved.
  • Keeping accurate, up-to-date records of query statuses.
  • Ensuring the filing system remains organised and accurate.
  • Sending cases to the Facilities team for archiving once all matter balances have been cleared as a result of this process.

Skills and Experience Required

  • Minimum of 5 A-C grades at GCSE or equivalent including grade B in English Language, Literature & Maths;
  • At least 12 months experience working within a law firm;
  • A high attention to detail to produce work/documentation which is consistently of a high standard