Legal Cashier

Join our busy Newcastle Finance team as a Legal Cashier!

If you would like to play a vital role in a fast-paced, high-impact finance environment, then our Finance team could be for you. We have a newly created role for a motivated Legal Cashier to join us and make a real difference. Reporting to the Accounts Manager, you'll assist with the finance and accounting functions of the department, while ensuring compliance with Solicitors' Accounts Rules.

• Daily maintenance of client and office ledgers, and related records.
• Cash allocations and online electronic payments (BACS, Faster Payments, Chaps and Cheques).
• Debiting online electronic payments to the finance system.
• Responsible for client balances and taking card payments from clients.
• Assisting with queries received both internally and externally.

• Good knowledge of Solicitors' Accounts Rules.
• Ability to work quickly and accurately, balancing and prioritising workload.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.

We're proud to be an independent, full-service law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, the built environment, healthcare, the public and third sectors, and private individuals. With several office locations around the UK we're one of the UK's Top 100 law firms. When you join us you’ll be part of a team of over 500 passionate and talented individuals who take pride in offering an exciting and supportive environment allowing you to thrive.

We're passionate about promoting wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion, with dedicated committees to support ongoing efforts. We recognise that a healthy and thriving firm filled with individuality and differences strengthen our teams, our clients and our communities.

We’re committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we’re always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.

We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that’s right for you – now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• A range of health and well being benefits.
• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of 3 days per week working from the Newcastle office.
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.