Kennedys
Legal Cashiering Assistant
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Legal Cashiering Assistant
Kennedys is looking for a Legal Cashiering Assistant to join our Financial Operations team based in Chelmsford. The successful Legal Cashiering Assistant will contribute to the effectiveness of the Finance department by providing a comprehensive and efficient service to internal and external clients in order that the business objectives of the firm and the department are achieved.
Team
Kennedys Finance team support the firm globally producing timely and accurate financial and management information, reporting solutions and operational support to maintain the high standard of service offered to the firm's internal and external clients.
Our Finance team is made up of Financial Control, Financial Planning and Reporting, Management Accountants, Credit Control, Legal Cashiers and Billers and Financial Operations Database teams.
Our UK Finance team is based in Chelmsford and London and have a presence in eight global offices.
Key Responsibilities
- Support UK (including Scotland and Northern Ireland), Bermuda & European offices, ensuring compliance with firm's policy and SRA or jurisdictional Law Society accounts rules and regulations at all times
- Accurate and timely process of day to day transactions through firm's office and client accounts, including enter/authorise payments on the banking system, post payments/receipts and register disbursement vouchers
- Support various overseas offices including but not limited to Bermuda, Denmark & France ensuring compliance with firm's policy and local Bar Association accounts rules and regulations at all times
- Assist with daily review/allocation of bank statement entries and outstanding unidentified receipts
- Assist with dealing with all internal and external clients in a timely professional, polite and proactive manner
- Manage high volume workflow, maintaining a strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Assist with and resolving day-to-day queries received in to the team
- Inform and update management on complex and time-consuming queries/requests day-to-day workflow is maintained
- Complete daily and periodical exception reporting to ensure all required tasks are completed to prevent breaches of jurisdictional Law Society accounts rules and regulations
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- Flexible and adaptable to deal with changing requirements, able to balance competing priorities
- Excellent attention to detail
- Commitment to delivering a professional service to the highest standards
- Strong IT skills including Excel, Word & Outlook
- Ability to prioritize own workload and achieve deadlines
- Previous experience within a Legal Finance department (preferred)
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where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.
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