Legal Cashier (12-month FTC) - Leeds

Description

We are looking for a Legal Cashier to join our busy Finance team in central Leeds on a 12-month fixed term basis. We need a confident and flexible individual who thrives when working as part of a team. You'll preferably have experience in legal cashiering, although candidates with experience in bank reconciliations will be considered.

Our Firm

Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and sovereign nations.

With over 1,500 lawyers spanning more than 40 offices across four continents, the firm is renowned for its local connections and global influence, delivering comprehensive legal services across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. In the UK, we have offices in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and London.

The firm is committed to promoting a collaborative and supportive working environment. Embedded by local champions in each of our UK offices, our well-regarded family and carer, wellbeing and workplace culture and development programmes provide a variety of flexible working options to support individuals' life journeys, helping our people pursue their personal and professional goals.

Our Team

Our Finance team in Leeds is a large team made of up Accounts Payable, Database and Billing, Credit Control and Client and Office Accounts. The team provide centralised support to all the UK offices and ensure they provide a world class service to the firm's internal and external clients.

Our Opportunity

In this role your primary responsibility will be providing administrative and compliance support to the cashiering team. This will involve monitoring daily control reports and reviewing transaction postings to check for errors and/or SRA Accounts Rules breaches. You will also be responsible for the filing and monitoring of bank statements/correspondence and updating bank mandates. You will assist with client and office account cashiering when needed and with the processing of soft cost recharges.

Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

You

While legal cashiering experience is preferred, we are open to receiving applications from people with experience in bank reconciliations. As you will be dealing with people of all levels, you must have the ability to communicate effectively and interpret instructions. An appreciation of the importance of confidentiality is also required at all times.

We need you to be able to use your initiative, have excellent attention to detail, and be a real team player. You'll need to have a confident approach as the role can involve making external calls to banks and suppliers to request copy statements and will need to be flexible in your work as ad hoc duties can arise. From time to time, flexibility with hours may be required especially when it comes to month end.

What You Need To Know

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please visit our careers site at www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/careers. We are unable to process applications sent directly by email. Please complete an online application.

We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is representative of our society. We welcome applications regardless of age, neurodiversity, disability, family or parental status, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity and expression or other legally protected characteristics. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply.