Legal Cashier

Shoosmiths - UK Law Firm of the Year Winner at the Legal Week British Legal Awards 2015.

A leading UK law firm with a network of offices from the South Coast to Scotland, working together as one national team. An innovative practice and the first top 100 law firm to achieve “Gold Standard” Investors in People, our values and culture are not just words on our website but are the heartbeat of the firm. The lack of barriers between departments, a real lack of hierarchy, zero tolerance for arrogance and pomposity makes Shoosmiths a fantastic place to work.

Our finance team are committed to providing an efficient and accurate service to our legal advisors and to other support functions.  At the centre of this is ensuring that the client and office accounts are kept up to date and invoices are produced accurately and in a timely manner.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Legal Cashier to join our Finance team in Manchester on a permanent basis. You will be working as part of a larger team supplying an efficient and accurate legal cashiering service to all of our legal advisors in the Manchester and Leeds offices.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with previous experience within a legal finance environment to broaden your knowledge and gain new skills. You will be an excellent communicator, have a keen eye for detail and be able to manage your own workload.

You will receive full training and support which comprises of a mix of on-the-job to more formal training via classroom and online learning.

As part of the finance team you will assist in all day to day cashiering tasks, including billing, allocating and processing electronic payments, banking/raising cheques, inter account transfers, as well as dealing with queries from the legal advisors.

You will be given the opportunity to train on SAP (the finance system) as well as the online banking system.

Given the close collaboration with the finance team and the firms’ legal and support teams, you will need excellent communication skills and be the sort of person who’s not afraid to ask questions or make yourself available to assist colleagues when needed.

In order to be successful, you will have previous experience in a similar role, with a good understanding of the Solicitors Accounts Rules. You will be self-motivated, reliable, and possess excellent communication skills to be able to integrate within a team. You must also be able to work to tight deadlines with excellent attention to detail, plus a good level of IT literacy is needed (however training will be given on the systems you’ll be using). A minimum of 5 GCSEs at grade C or above (or equivalent) including Maths and English together with excellent numerical skills is essential.

Ideally in addition to the above, you will have an advanced knowledge of Excel.

Benefits Package 

Shoosmiths has an outstanding benefits package; we believe that all staff should be rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of the firm. These include:

• A pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5.5%
• Generous life assurance cover for peace of mind, up to 8 times salary
• Up to 23 paid working days holiday per annum with the option to buy up to 8 additional days. You can choose to 'flex' twice a year - January and July
• 'Happy Birthday!' - have a free day off to celebrate and a £50 voucher to spend! (We won't take it from your annual entitlement)
• Childcare vouchers which are not subject to tax or NI
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Staff introduction bonus scheme
• Corporate discounts on a wide variety of products and services
• Discounted conveyancing and legal advice, for instance for wills and family trusts

The application process

There will be two interview stages in total, which will be held at our Manchester office. 

Background checks

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted.  These checks will include employment references covering the last 5 years, proof of ID, proof of address covering the last 5 years, Personnel Vetting credit search (which will only highlight insolvency or County Court Judgments - should any adverse data show on the Personnel Vetting search then any offer of employment made will be withdrawn).Terrorism Check (against data supplied by the Bank of England) and a basic DBS check previously known as a Criminal Records check.  

Shoosmiths is a committed Equal Opportunities employer promoting equality of opportunity. This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.