Head Cashier
Meridian Business Support
Remote-friendly
Our client, an award winning, top 100 law firm, has an exciting Head Cashier opportunity that's opened up in their finance team, where you will be responsible for leading and managing the Legal Cashiering team and function, ensuring that all client and office account transactions are accurately processed in accordance with Solicitors Accounts Rules (SARs) and internal policies. You will work collaboratively with internal stakeholders (Partners, fee earners and legal support colleagues) as well as external parties such as auditors and regulators, and provide technical expertise and knowledge, and operational oversight whilst leading, developing and mentoring your team.
As Head Cashier, your new role will involve:
- Overseeing the day-to-day running of the cashiering team handling client and office account payments, receipts and transfers, financial postings, bank reconciliations, client interest calculations
- Ensuring all transactions are processed correctly
- Monthly client money reconciliation
- Monitoring the workload of your team
- Ensuring full compliance with Solicitors Accounts Rules (SARs), AML regulations, and Source of Funds checks
- Supporting internal and external audits
- Leading, managing and developing your team
- Acting as the main point of contact for fee earners, internal and external stakeholders, and the external banking team
- Reviewing and improving cashiering processes
- Reporting on and monitoring key cashiering metrics
I am interested in speaking with candidates who specifically have experience working as a Head Cashier, Head Legal Cashier, Legal Cashiering Manager, Legal Cashier Manager, or Senior Legal Cashier within the legal sector, and who have strong technical knowledge of Solicitors Accounts Rules (SARs), and people / team management experience. Experience with legal finance systems (e.g. banking platforms, PMS) is important too.
Salary for this position is £50,000 to £55,000 p.a. (depending on experience).
Benefits include: hybrid working, life assurance, private healthcare, Group Income Protection, your birthday off (if it falls on a working day), charity day to use each year, Employee Assistance Programme, and company social events.
The company's stunning offices offer free parking (limited on-site on a first come first serviced basis or) close by to the offices, however if you are travelling by public transport they are only a short 10-15 minutes walk from the nearest train station.
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
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