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About the Role
The Legal Cashier & Operations Coordinator supports the firm's financial operations by accurately and timely processing client and office account transactions. This role is critical for ensuring compliance with SRA Accounts Rules, maintaining financial record integrity, and providing high-quality service to internal teams.
Responsibilities
- Process client account receipts and payments accurately, efficiently, and in accordance with agreed procedures and approval requirements.
- Conduct bank account validation procedures, including liaising with client contacts and third parties, completing oral verification checks and arranging test payments.
- Ensure all client money transactions comply with SRA Accounts Rules, internal controls, and the firm’s finance policies.
- Monitor client account balances and investigate any exceptions, unusual items, or discrepancies promptly.
- Support the timely resolution of client money queries.
- Process office account payments, transfers, and banking transactions accurately, ensuring proper authorization and recording.
- Maintain accurate and complete accounting records within the firm’s finance systems.
- Support month-end and year-end financial processes by providing cashiering information, reconciliations, and transaction analysis.
- Investigate and resolve reconciling items in a timely manner, escalating unresolved issues or risks.
- Assist with the management of banking relationships and operational banking activities.
- Maintain appropriate audit trails and supporting documentation.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, finance procedures, and regulatory requirements.
- Escalate potential breaches, risks, or control weaknesses appropriately.
- Support internal and external audit requests by providing accurate information, documentation, and explanations.
- Assist with the implementation of process improvements and best-practice cashiering procedures.
- Support Accounts Payable with invoice, supplier, and payment queries.
- Support the dispatch of client bills via various methods.
- Assist with staff and partner expense processing queries.
- Assist with finance operational processes and ad hoc tasks.
Requirements
- Previous experience gained in a legal cashiering, finance operations, or accounting role.
- Sound understanding of SRA Accounts Rules, client money principles, and the importance of maintaining accurate, compliant, and well-controlled financial processes.
- Practical experience of processing financial transactions and completing bank reconciliations.
- Ability to investigate discrepancies, follow matters through to resolution, and ensure records are accurate, complete, and supported by appropriate documentation.
- Strong attention to detail, excellent organisational and prioritisation skills.
- Ability to manage competing demands efficiently while maintaining a consistently high standard of accuracy and service.
- Clear and professional communication, both written and verbal.
- Confident using Microsoft Excel and finance systems to support day-to-day cashiering activity, reporting, and transaction management.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisational skills
- Operational excellence
- Microsoft Excel
- Finance systems
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Previous experience in legal cashiering, finance operations, or accounting role
- Practical experience processing financial transactions
- Experience completing bank reconciliations
Benefits
- Varied opportunities for continuous growth and development
- Formal training
- Informal coaching and mentoring
- Skills-based training
- Technical training
- On the job learning
- Broad range of benefits to support personal and professional life
- Financial benefits
- Wellbeing benefits
- Lifestyle benefits
- Family friendly benefits
About the Company
- One of the largest international law firms in the world with over 30 offices globally.
- Strives to exceed client expectations by providing high-quality advice and legal insight.
- Combines global standards with in-depth local expertise.
- Offers a truly international perspective across jurisdictions, cultures, and languages.
- Fosters an inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.
- Focuses on targeted growth led by client needs.
- Serves clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations.
- Provides a world-class service driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach.
- A place where bright minds and the best colleagues meet.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age.
- This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.
- Has a variety of flourishing employee networks for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change.
- Goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in the firm.