Legal Cashier

About the role:

We have a great opportunity for someone to join our Finance team here in Birmingham as a Legal Cashier. Within this role you will be part of a fast paced, motivated team, providing a professional end to end Legal Cashiering service whilst ensuring compliance with the Firm's policies & procedures and the SRA Accounts Rules.

Within this role your key relationships internally and externally are:

• Internal: Cashiers, Client Money Compliance, Accounts Receivable/Payable, Billing and Legal team
• External: Banking Provider

About you:

We are looking for a candidate with experience as a legal cashier who understands client matter transactions. You should have a strong grasp of SRA Accounts Rules and legal accounting principles, as well as experience with practice management systems, workflow systems, Microsoft Excel, and online banking.

Success in this role requires high accuracy and attention to detail. You must be able to work well under pressure, handling a continuous flow of transaction requests throughout banking hours.

In addition to your technical skills, you should demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication abilities, reliability, and the capacity to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 26 consecutive years. 

Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Free private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment.  The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity.  This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work.  Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at meg.astley@gowlingwlg.com 

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