Job Role:                    Senior Legal Cashier

Starting Salary:       £30,000 to £35,000 FTE (depending upon experience)

Job Type:                    Full Time/Part Time

Hours:                          21 – 35 hours per week (applications welcome from full and part time applicants with flexible working patterns available)

Closing Date:           TBC

Positions:                   1 FTE

Are you experienced in legal finance or financial compliance or currently a legal cashier with an interest in risk and compliance?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Legal Cashier to join our expanding legal practice based in Cwmbran, South Wales – easily accessible from both Cardiff and Bristol with free on-site parking.

We are a firm of solicitors offering our customers a range of products and services with a core focus on conveyancing and property transactions. 

The successful candidate will: provide the firm’s COFA support and work closely with the senior team to approve electronic payments;  maintain the firm’s rules and breach register;  perform internal audits of case matter files to ensure compliance with  Solicitors Accounts Rules (SAR);  review client account residual balances and maintain client ledgers;  support annual SAR audit;  review financial transactions including incoming client funds;  process and reconcile professional disbursements and undertake day to day banking duties.

You should have a minimum of 1 years’ experience in a legal finance role and be able to demonstrate knowledge and application of the Solicitors Accounts Rules (SAR) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations.

About the business:

We’re a leading law firm transforming the consumer legal landscape. Our service demystifies the legal process and makes the complicated simple for our clients.

Our team of Solicitors and Conveyancers are backed by a highly skilled client management team who work to understand our clients’ needs and help them navigate the legal process in a language they can understand.

We use the latest technology to revolutionise the way we work with our clients and put them at the heart of everything that we do.

What you’ll be doing:

• Compliance Officer for Finance and Administration (COFA)
• Maintaining client ledgers
• Reviewing and allocating incoming client funds
• Issuing cheques
• Ensuring client account is never allowed to overdraw
• Processing and reconciling professional disbursements
• Making payments and transfers via online banking facility
• Enter postings onto the accounts system on a daily basis
• Inputting client payments and obtaining appropriate authorisation in advance of deadlines
• Reviewing bills and entering them onto the accounts system
• Dealing with Fee Earner queries
• Report and monitor breaches of the SAR
• Ensure tasks undertaken are processed in accordance with SRA Accounts Rules and internal processes and procedures
• Undertaking daily banking and other cashier related duties as required by Operations Manager/Director

What you’ll need:

Essential –

• Professional, confident communication skills
• Understanding of the Solicitors Accounts Rules, VAT and AML
• A minimum of one  years’ experience in a legal finance role
• Exposure to dealing with, or the approval process for, online payments
• Strong attention to detail
• Experienced user of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint
• Team player but able to  work autonomously

• Excellent time management, organisational and administrative skills

Desirable –

• Knowledge of ISO
• Relevant professional qualifications (ILFM, Bookkeeping etc)
• Experience of a practice management system (e.g Leap, Xero)

Our Location:

Our offices are based in Cwmbran, South Wales – easily accessible from Cardiff and Bristol

Why should you apply?

• Free on site parking
• Westfield Health plan with added benefits and discounts through Westfield Rewards
• On site cafe
• Access to subsidised gym memberships
• Pension Scheme
• Holidays 23 plus statutory bank holidays rising to 28 after 5 years
• Career development support including relevant qualifications

If you feel this is for you, please apply now.

How do I apply?

Please send your CV to [email protected] 

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.