Legal Cashier – Accounts

Job title:

Legal Cashier – Accounts

Company:

Devonshires Solicitors

Job description

Devonshires has been based in the City of London for more than 150 years. From our offices
in London, Leeds, Birmingham, and Colchester we provide legal services throughout
England and Wales. Our clients range from some of the world’s largest multi-national
corporations to private individuals. We act for a significant number of charities, housing
associations and Regulators. We would describe ourselves as “full service” with specialists in
Commercial/Corporate, Civil Litigation, Housing, Employment, Real Estate & Projects &
Property Development. Over the past few years, we have grown significantly and now have
approximately 350 employees and a growing international reach.Job Purpose:The Legal Cashier role assists all departments in the firm with the end-to-end process of paid
disbursements, including developing and maintaining an effective and professional
procedure for the management of these disbursements.Main Duties and Responsibilities:This is not an exhaustive list and from time to time it may be necessary to vary these to meet
the department and business needs.

• Analysing the system ledger to check if the disbursement should be billed to the client

or written off, and liaising with the fee earner for confirmation.

• Reviewing the system ledger containing the unbilled disbursement to check if there is

money on the client account to pay the bill when raised.

• Liaising with the client contact to obtain a PO before raising the bill and ensuring the

PO is added to the bill.

• Creating the bill in P4W, submitting to the client via email and filing the bill and the

email to the client folders in the DMS.

• Ensuring bills that are to be paid with money on the client account are correctly

processed at the point of raising the bill.

• Following the financial procedure and authorisation process for the write off of any

unbilled disbursements.

• Building and maintaining good working relationships with the Accounts Operations

Team so that unbilled disbursement queries can be resolved in a timely and accurate
manner.

• Keeping the Operations Manager fully informed of issues and providing suggestions

and solutions to deal with them, as well as ideas for process improvements.

• Working with the Operations Manager to introduce a weekly procedure for this task

as well as a monthly progress review report on objectives achieved.

• Maintaining up to date and accurate records of query statuses.
• Maintaining an organised and accurate filing system.
• Sending matters to the Facilities team for archive when all matter balances return to

zero as a result of this work.Skills and Experience Required

• Minimum of 5 A-C grades at GCSE or equivalent including grade B in English

Language, Literature & Maths;

• At least 12 months experience working within a law firm;
• A high attention to detail to produce work/documentation which is consistently of a

high standard;

• Proactive in identifying and raising issues at an early stage to enable effective

resolution;

• Good computer skills (competent in Excel and Word);
• Extensive time management skills with the ability to prioritise workload, to have a

flexible approach to ensure all deadlines are met;

• Must be able to work as part of a team and possess excellent communication skills

both written and verbal;

• Willingness to excel within an accounts environment and keen to learn.

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Location

Colchester, Essex – Leeds, Kent

Job date

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:36:12 GMT

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