Job Description

for Legal Cashier - 2026

• client
  ledger reconciliations, allocations, corrections
• Processing
  invoices, expense claims, and payments.
• SRA
  compliance aware
• Bank reconciliations
• Taking Worldpay payments from clients via
  telephone
• Assisting with unbilled, billed and
  unpaid disbursements and allocations
• Raising Private Bills
• Closing & archiving files
• Dealing with daily email & telephone
  queries from all staff
• Dealing with third parties, experts or
  suppliers, agents, freelancers and consultants and assisting with queries
  by telephone and email, keeping good relationships.
• BACS, CHAPS, and other payment runs –
  client and office account, this includes completions and checking
  completion statements, setting up client to office transfers.
• Ensuring reporting and follow up action
  is taken as required to comply with SRA client to office transfers, office
  account credits.
• Dealing with fee earners regarding client
  ledgers and any other queries.
• Checking crime invoices re LAA
  requirements / LF1 interim claims & Applying for Civil payments on
  account for disbursements from the LAA
• Following up on Crime invoices
  disbursement queries
• Sorting client credit balances / residual
  balances
• Sorting office credit balances
• Working through matter balances report
  and resolving ledgers balances
• Helping with month end procedures and
  running off reports.
• Legal Aid experience preferable but not
  essential.
• Assisting with audit preparation
• Assisting team members with account
  reconciliation and postings (UBER, Trainline, HMCTS PBA Account) to the
  purchase ledger, direct debits postings.

Any other tasks as requested by
Supervisor and/or the Finance Director

Personal qualities required:

·Excellent oral and written communication skills

·Polite and professional telephone manner

·Ability to learn quickly

·High level of accuracy with attention to detail

·Excellent time management and organisational skills

·Able to work on own initiative and also as part of a wider team

·Ability to cope with tight deadlines and work under pressure

· Experience
using the Microsoft Office , in particular competent in excel and word and
outlook.