Legal Cashier

Job Description for Legal Cashier – 2026

• client ledger reconciliations, allocations, corrections
• Processing invoices, expense claims, and payments. 
• SRA compliance aware
• Bank reconciliations
• Taking Worldpay payments from clients via telephone
• Assisting with unbilled, billed and unpaid disbursements and allocations
• Raising Private Bills
• Closing & archiving files
• Dealing with daily email & telephone queries from all staff
• Dealing with third parties, experts or suppliers, agents, freelancers and consultants and assisting with queries by telephone and email, keeping good relationships.
• BACS, CHAPS, and other payment runs – client and office account, this includes completions and checking completion statements, setting up client to office transfers.
• Ensuring reporting and follow up action is taken as required to comply with SRA client to office transfers, office account credits.
• Dealing with fee earners regarding client ledgers and any other queries.
• Checking crime invoices re LAA requirements / LF1 interim claims & Applying for Civil payments on account for disbursements from the LAA
• Following up on Crime invoices disbursement queries
• Sorting client credit balances / residual balances
• Sorting office credit balances
• Working through matter balances report and resolving ledgers balances
• Helping with month end procedures and running off reports.
• Legal Aid experience preferable but not essential.
• Assisting with audit preparation
• Assisting team members with account reconciliation and postings (UBER, Trainline, HMCTS PBA Account) to the purchase ledger, direct debits postings.

Any other tasks as requested by Supervisor and/or the Finance Director

Personal qualities required:

·Excellent oral and written communication skills

·Polite and professional telephone manner

·Ability to learn quickly

·High level of accuracy with attention to detail

·Excellent time management and organisational skills

·Able to work on own initiative and also as part of a wider team

·Ability to cope with tight deadlines and work under pressure

·       Experience using the Microsoft Office , in particular competent in excel and word and outlook.