Legal Cashier

Legal Cashier\n Location: Edinburgh\nSalary: £30-32,000 + Benefits\nJob Type: Full-time, Permanent\nRecruiter: Pertemps\n\n Pertemps is recruiting on behalf of a well-established legal firm for an experienced Legal Cashier to join its finance team.\n\n This is an excellent opportunity for a detail-oriented finance professional with legal cashiering or professional services accounting experience to play a key role in maintaining accurate financial records and supporting day-to-day cashiering operations within a busy and collaborative environment.\n\nThe Role\n\n Working as part of a specialist cashiering team, you will be responsible for processing a wide range of financial transactions, ensuring compliance with internal controls and regulatory requirements, and providing support to colleagues across the business.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nAllocate and process incoming bank receipts across client and office accounts.\nReview, prepare and set up electronic payments, including CHAPS, BACS, Faster Payments and international transfers.\nEnsure all required anti-money laundering and compliance checks have been completed prior to payment processing.\nProcess payments, receipts, transfers, bill payments and other financial transactions through the firm's financial management system.\nManage designated client bank accounts, including account openings, closures and ongoing transactional activity.\nReview cheque requests, ensuring appropriate authorisation and timely processing.\nInvestigate and resolve outstanding reconciliation items, unmatched transactions and aged cheques.\nSupport fee earners, senior stakeholders and colleagues with client and business-related financial transactions.\nPrepare and submit regular banking activities, including cheque and cash deposits.\nCalculate and process client account interest requirements.\nMaintain accurate electronic records and supporting documentation for audit and compliance purposes.\nAssist with annual audit activities and information requests.\nParticipate in team meetings and contribute to the ongoing improvement of cashiering processes and procedures.\nProvide support with additional finance and departmental tasks as required.\n\n About You\n\n To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:\n\nPrevious experience in a Legal Cashier, Accounts Assistant or similar finance role.\nStrong understanding of banking processes, payment systems and financial transactions.\nExcellent attention to detail and high levels of accuracy.\nExperience working with financial management or accounting systems.\nStrong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.\nGood communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships across a business.\nA proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.\nKnowledge of legal accounting rules and regulatory requirements would be advantageous.\n\n What's on Offer\n\nCompetitive salary and benefits package.\nOpportunity to join a respected and established organisation.\nSupportive team environment.\nOngoing training and professional development opportunities.\nVaried and interesting role with exposure to a broad range of financial processes.\n To apply or find out more, please apply or contact Richard Brown at Pertemps today