Senior Legal Cashier

Farrer & Co is synonymous with the highest quality legal advice and service.

We advise individuals, families, businesses, financial services, educational and not-for-profit organisations on every aspect of the law, wherever the need arises. From our offices in London we work with trusted professionals around the world to deliver a seamless international service.

Our clients present us with complex and varied challenges. Whether that's a complicated family trust issue, a multinational corporate transaction, or an emerging threat to their reputation, they need clear thinkers who can advise on the best solutions, fast thinkers when speed is of the essence and agile thinkers who can produce a fresh approach to get the job done. That's why they choose us.

Our clients value our in-depth knowledge, technical excellence and diversity of disciplines. But what really binds our long-standing relationships with them is our approach: pragmatic, plain speaking and always steadfast in our values, which we hold dear. Values which mean we gain our clients' trust, always strive to do the right thing, and aim for the best results for them.

Superb client service sits at the heart of everything we do. We are modern lawyers with timeless values.

The team is responsible for the development and overall control of all matters relating to the firm's financial policies, financial affairs and administration.

The Senior Legal Cashier is required to monitor and assist with day to day transactions and ledger entries on the firm’s client and office bank accounts, in accordance with challenging internal and external deadlines. A high degree of flexibility is required to provide support to colleagues and assist the Head of Finance Operations in the smooth running of the Treasury Team.

Client Accounts

• Overseeing the day to day processes and bank reconciliations for all firm bank accounts, with main responsibility for those held offshore, designated deposit accounts and those held in foreign currency
• Assisting the Junior Legal Cashier with the running of the main, busy, client account.  Providing guidance in relation to SRA client money rules and ensuring that internal and external deadlines are met
• Producing month end bank reconciliation for all bank accounts for presentation to Head of Finance Operations
• Assisting with the annual SRA client money audit and general  SRA compliance and awareness within the team and wider firm
• Maintenance of the COFAs Register of Breaches throughout the year

Office Account

• Overseeing the AP Assistant with the smooth running of all AP processes. 
• Managing the office bank account balance and transferring between linked deposit account as required
• Maintaining an excellent knowledge of the firm’s expenses policy, budget codes and approvers and the Chrome River system
• Assisting with the reconciliation of our travel provider invoices and company credit card ledgers
• Making scheduled payments of supplier invoices, counsel fee notes and staff expenses, as well as ad-hoc payments as required
• Reconciling the float of cash held in the team.

General Duties

• Managing the team’s work load, assisting when required to meet deadlines
• Responsibility for monitoring the Accounts email in-box to ensure that all client/office requests are dealt with by the team in a timely manner and assisting with more complex queries as required
• Helping the wider team with ad-hoc project work, to include Residual Balance Project and Chrome River Invoice Implementation.

• Excellent knowledge of, and experience of practical application of, SRA Accounts Rules in a law firm

• Confidence in handling internal and external communications

• Strong attention to detail

• Previous experience of a PMS essential, Aderant and Chrome River desirable, MS Office and online banking tools