Office Account Transactions

• Process office account payments, transfers, and banking transactions accurately, ensuring that each transaction is properly authorised and recorded.
• Maintain accurate and complete accounting records within the firm’s finance systems, ensuring that supporting information is retained where required.
• Support month-end and year-end financial processes by providing cashiering information, reconciliations, and transaction analysis as required.

Banking and Reconciliations

• Investigate and resolve reconciling items in a timely manner, escalating any unresolved issues or risks to the appropriate manager.
• Assist with the management of banking relationships and operational banking activities, including payment queries, account administration, and related process matters.
• Maintain appropriate audit trails and supporting documentation to evidence transactions, approvals, reconciliations, and key cashiering decisions.

Compliance and Controls

• Ensure compliance with internal controls, finance procedures, and regulatory requirements, applying a disciplined approach to risk management in day-to-day cashiering activity.
• Escalate potential breaches, risks, or control weaknesses appropriately, ensuring that issues are communicated clearly and addressed without delay.
• Support internal and external audit requests by providing accurate information, documentation, and explanations relating to cashiering processes and transactions.
• Assist with the implementation of process improvements and best-practice cashiering procedures, contributing ideas that improve accuracy, efficiency, and service quality.

Finance Operations Assistant or Coordinator

• Supporting Accounts Payable with invoice, supplier, and payment queries.
• Supporting the dispatch of client bills via various methods (i.e. post, email, and portal).
• Assisting with staff and partner expense processing queries.
• Assisting with finance operational processes and ad hoc tasks as required.

Qualifications

Your experience

• You will bring previous experience gained in a legal cashiering, finance operations, or accounting role, with a sound understanding of SRA Accounts Rules, client money principles, and the importance of maintaining accurate, compliant, and well-controlled financial processes.
• You will have practical experience of processing financial transactions and completing bank reconciliations, together with the ability to investigate discrepancies, follow matters through to resolution, and ensure that records are accurate, complete, and supported by appropriate documentation.
• You will demonstrate strong attention to detail, excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, and the ability to manage competing demands efficiently while maintaining a consistently high standard of accuracy and service.
• You will communicate clearly and professionally, both in writing and verbally, and will be confident using Microsoft Excel and finance systems to support day-to-day cashiering activity, reporting, and transaction management.

Additional Information

How we will support you

From your first day with us, you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and develop your skills and knowledge. From formal training, informal coaching and mentoring, through to skills-based and technical training, and on-the-job learning.

Hybrid working

This role follows our 'balanced' hybrid working approach and as long as business needs allow, you will be supported to work in a hybrid way in line with the hybrid working policy.

What we offer including our broad range of benefits and working environment

When you join Clifford Chance, you will have access to a broad range of benefits to support you across many aspects of your personal and professional life, including financial, wellbeing, lifestyle, and family-friendly benefits. For more information on what we offer specifically in the UK, please visit our What We Offer page on our career site.

Equal opportunities

At Clifford Chance, we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm, and society.

We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age. This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment, including pay, promotion, training, transfer, and every other aspect of employment.

We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.

Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration, and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm.

Find out more about our inclusive culture here.

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