Position:

Cashroom Assistant

Department:

Edinburgh

Line Manager:

Cashroom Manager

Purpose of Job   

Ensure that the firm’s financial management systems work effectively, by reviewing and processing accounting transactions. Ensuring at all times you support the cash room manager to deliver a high level of service and maintain compliance with the Law Society of Scotland rules..

Main duties and responsibilities

Accurately processing financial transactions by verifying the details, communicating these to staff and ensuring the correct postings are made

Accurately processing payments, verifying the details are correct when entering and correctly checking the details when acting as approver.

Reviewing and posting slips into Proclaim, ensuring the details make sense and there is support for the amounts processed

Ensuring the bank accounts are monitored to ensure payments and receipts are notified promptly. Ensuring the resultant postings are correct, even if this means a delay in them being posted to an individual matter

Petty cash reconciliation for head office and branch offices

Working with the Cash room Manager to ensure the reconciliation of previous day’s bank account to client trial balance, including SSDA

Ensuring all postings are made using the agreed processes and ensuring checks are made to verify the postings

Communicating with Bank, other organisations and internal staff to ensure the details of payments or receipts are accurate

Ad hoc duties as required

Person Specification

1. Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

Essential/

Desirable

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Essential

• Team-player

Essential

• Able to maintain a high level of accuracy and confidentiality

Essential

• Excellent numeric skills

Essential

• IT literate, with a good knowledge of Microsoft Office

Essential

• Excellent time management and ability to work under pressure

Essential

2. Experience

• Experience of working in a controlled manner

Essential

• Legal firm background

Desirable

3. Education/Qualifications Degrees or diplomas obtained abroad are acceptable if they are of equivalent standard to UK qualifications.

SOLAS

Desirable