Legal Cashier / Accounts Assistant

at  Sewell Wallis

JOB DESCRIPTION

We’re looking for a capable, confident, and hard-working Accounts Assistant, Legal Cashier or Cash Allocation Clerk for well-established Solicitors in Nottingham City Centre. The area has excellent transport links and parking available nearby (with parking paid for).
The role will be full time hours, office based, Monday to Friday, there is no option for hybrid working within this position.

This would be an excellent opportunity for someone with knowledge of SRA accounts rules, who perhaps is only doing one aspect of the Legal Cashier role, or who is recently graduated with minimal experience, to develop in the role and gain more of understanding of all the below duties:

• Maintaining ledgers and inputting data.
• Payment Processing.
• Reconciliation of accounts and bank statements.
• VAT returns, VAT2 forms, quarterly Partial Exemption calculations and HMRC payments.
• Month end duties including report building.
• Journal/report building.

We are looking for someone who fulfills the following:

• A willingness to learn, develop and work hard
• Knowledge of SRA account rules, with some legal/solicitor experience
• Use of Excel, Word, Sage, and has strong IT skills
• High attention to detail
• Organised
• Great written and verbal communicator

Benefits of the role include:

• Free parking
• Competitive salary £25,000-£26,500
• Full Time hours
• Training and support available
• Health benefits
• Pension contributions

This client is ideally looking to have a candidate start ASAP, so please submit your application today!
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.

This would be an excellent opportunity for someone with knowledge of SRA accounts rules, who perhaps is only doing one aspect of the Legal Cashier role, or who is recently graduated with minimal experience, to develop in the role and gain more of understanding of all the below duties:

• Maintaining ledgers and inputting data.
• Payment Processing.
• Reconciliation of accounts and bank statements.
• VAT returns, VAT2 forms, quarterly Partial Exemption calculations and HMRC payments.
• Month end duties including report building.
• Journal/report building

Benefits of the role include:

• Free parking
• Competitive salary £25,000-£26,500
• Full Time hours
• Training and support available
• Health benefits
• Pension contribution