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Job details

Frances Armstrong Associates LLP is currently seeking a legal cashier with strong financial / cashiering skills and dept or office management experience for a diverse role with a 15 employee law firm based near Bond Street.

This role promises to be fast paced and requires a strong willed professional who has proven legal finance / cashiering experience to drive this department and firm forward. With little or no supervision, you will be required to look after all financials, vat, PAYE, banking, statements, cash etc while managing the general running of the office to ensure the firm runs like clockwork.

Due to the specifics of the role, we are seeking either an experienced cashier with proven department or management experience, or a practice manager who has proven experience working with finance within a UK based law firm.

This will be a role of great satisfaction and promises to be anything but dull.

Role specifics

Practice Management / Office duties

• Any other duties that relate to Office Management, as they arise.
• Organising temp cover for secretaries
• Contract renewals, including leases plus tendering and ensuring that compliance is in place in terms of PII, Practising Certs etc.
• Maintaining CPD records.
• Taking calls from reps.
• PII scrutiny
• Archiving
• Handling routine IT problems, liaising with IT consultants and software providers.
• Creating IT backups

Cashiering / Financial duties

• Daily entries to Client, Office and Nominal accounts
• Banking supervision (and drawing petty cash)
• Dealing with credit card statements (matching them to receipts and posting them to accounts)
• Writing cheques, obtaining signatures and distributing to secretaries.
• Bank reconciliations
• Purchase ledger maintenance, payments and postings
• Dial up banking: obtaining statements, incoming funds advices and posting payment instructions (same day, 3-day and inter-account).
• Organising rollovers of Treasury Deposit money.
• Month end procedures and reporting to partners. Spreading fee earner analysis details.
• Payroll and paying PAYE/NIC
• VAT returns
• End of Year Employers’ Tax Returns
• Maintaining petty cash.
• Opening new matters and maintaining money laundering records.
• Maintaining all accounting records.
• Liaising with auditors and executing any end of year entries required by them.
• Providing fee earners with accounting reports, statements for clients, advice on problem ledgers etc. Dealing with any of their accounting queries and problems.
• Daily and weekly cash flows

For this position a hand over period will be given by the current Manager / Cashier.

Salary - £35,000 - £40,000 pa (dependent upon skills and experience)

Start Date – Mid to End of June 2008

All applicants must be living in the U.K at time of application.

Frances Armstrong Associates LLP is a legal recruitment agency specialising in supplying staff and employment solutions to the U.K Legal Sector from offices in London and Birmingham.

Job Title: Practice Manager / Cashier
Recruitment: Legal Job - London - Frances Armstrong
Dept: Practice Manager / Cashier

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