Legal Cashier

Legal Cashier – Gateley

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Our dynamic and highly skilled finance team is looking for a Legal Cashier to join the team based in our Manchester office. As a Legal Cashier at Gateley you will manage client and office account transactions, ensure accurate allocation of funds, perform daily bank reconciliations, and maintain compliance with financial and regulatory requirements.

• Cash Management:
  • Download all transactions from office and client bank accounts and send to Credit Control.
  • Allocate funds to bills using remittances or aged debt, maintaining a spreadsheet.
  • Transfer client funds to office account at the end of each day.
  • Investigate unallocated funds via email, firmwide searches, Filesite or 3E; contact companies if necessary.
  • Perform daily bank reconciliations for office and client accounts for bills.
  • Identify and manage over payments or duplicate payments; notify fee‑earners and Credit Control, and adjust funds at the bank.
• Client Folder Management:
  • Process all CTC transfers for non‑RDU.
  • Process all CTO for bills across all banks, including RDU.
  • Calculate and action interest adjustments as required.
• Ad Hoc Tasks:
  • Transfer client funds to disbursement accounts.
  • Reverse costs for bills, including associated bank movements.
  • Action cost reversals for OCB as instructed; liaise with Credit Control and fee‑earners.
  • Resolve queries requiring searches in 3E and Filesite.
  • Re‑allocate misallocated bill receipts using reverse and receipt functions.
  • Process weekly bill write‑offs and disbursement write‑offs as directed by Credit Control.

Our highly skilled and diverse finance team is dedicated to delivering exceptional accounting services to our exciting and dynamic Professional Services Group. We offer a comprehensive range of services that cater to both legal and non‑legal businesses within the Group. Our finance team is meticulously organised into several specialised functions, including Group Accounting, Legal Cashiering, Billing, Credit Management, and Purchasing.

• Knowledge of using legal accounting software (desirable)
• 1 year’s experience in accounts role (desirable)
• IT literate
• Strong communication skills and confident telephone manner
• Previous experience working in an office and/or a finance environment (desirable)
• Experience dealing with volume and working to deadlines
• Works well as part of a team
• Attention to detail and accuracy

With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around our great development and progression opportunities we will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus.

In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent).

Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip‑hop dance.

Diversity, inclusion and well‑being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability or culture.

We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.

We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre‑employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.

Entry level

Full‑time

Other

Professional Services