Job description

Experienced Legal Cashier/Accountant - Redruth Office

We are seeking a knowledgeable Legal Cashier or Accountant to join our fast-paced Redruth office. This role is ideal for candidates with a solid understanding of conveyancing transactions, probate, and the Solicitors' Accounting Rules, as well as experience in accounting and cashiering within a solicitor’s office, estate agents, or similar professional firm.

Role Details:

• Work Hours: 9:00 am - 5:15 pm, Monday to Friday, totalling 36.25 hours per week. Flexibility options are available, including a 4-day week or split hours over 5 days to support work-life balance (minimum 25 hours per week).

• Additional Hours: The role requires covering staff absences within the cashier’s office, which may occasionally include paid extra hours to cover holiday periods.

• Salary: £26,000 to £33,500 per year (based on full-time hours 36.25 per week), based on skills and experience.

• Holiday Entitlement: Based on contracted hours, with additional time off included during the Christmas and New Year period.

Key Responsibilities:

• Transaction & Account Management: Manage client requisitions, postings, banking for completions, daily reconciliations, and interest calculations.

• Ledger Oversight: Oversee client, purchase, and nominal ledgers; check probate accounts.

• Billing & Payments: Conduct accounting checks on bills and statements and initiate banking payments.

• Data Entry & Management: Use Microsoft Office, Osprey Approach, and other software platforms for data entry and file management.

• Cashiering Tasks: Handle basic accounting functions, client requisitions, postings, and banking software operations. 

• Administrative Support: Assist with file management, GDPR compliance, and administrative tasks for the Practice Manager.

  • Daily general admin, filing, copying, archiving of files and deeds, logging and retrieval of these.

• AML Compliance: Support internal AML procedures and CDD checks with full training provided.

  • Daily checks and updates to the in-house ID system, including processing of checks and results using our ID partners' portal. 

• Regulatory Compliance: Maintain compliance with Solicitors' Accounting Rules, including transaction reconciliation.

Preferred Experience:

• Software Knowledge: Familiarity with Osprey Practice Management, IRIS Payroll, and Thirdfort AML software.

• Regulatory Understanding: Good understanding of the SRA Accountancy Rules and AML/CFT requirements.

Key Attributes:

• Professional Experience: Prior experience in legal cashiering or accounting in a solicitor's office, estate agents, or similar professional environment.

• Organised and Calm Under Pressure: Effective time management and task prioritisation.

• Communication Skills: Clear, professional interaction with clients and team members.

• Microsoft Office Proficiency: Basic experience with Outlook, Word, and Excel.

• Confidentiality: Strict client confidentiality, ability to show understanding and sensitivity to high-level access information and financing

What We Offer:

• Job Types:  Full-time, Permanent, with flexibility options.

• Salary Range: £26,000 to £33,500 per year, with a yearly bonus (based on full-time hours of 36.25 per week).

  • Exceeds minimum wage for entry-level

  • Salary increases with experience

• Additional Benefits: Flexitime, paid overtime, holiday entitlement based on contracted hours, and additional time off at Christmas and New Year.

  • 9-23 Days annual leave (23 based on full-time)

  • Additional leave on all bank holidays

  • Additional leave at Christmas & New Year

  • Ad-hoc additional hours available (but not mandatory)

If you have the experience and skills for this varied role, we’d love to hear from you!

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Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £26,000.-£33,500.00 per year

Expected hours: 25 – 36.25 per week

Additional pay:

• Bonus scheme

Benefits:

• Company pension

• Employee discount

• Transport links

Schedule:

• Flexitime

• Monday to Friday

• No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Redruth: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Accounting: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: 

• In-person - Redruth Office

Reference ID: Senior Legal Cashier