Legal Cashier Supervisor
Accounts
Plymouth, Exeter, Bristol, Southampton
Apply nowAre you a Legal Cashier with experience inspiring and leading a team? Are you looking for an opportunity to work with and develop a friendly dynamic accounts team where you will be valued and included from day one? If you’re ready to make a significant impact, and to contribute to ours and your own success story, we invite you to join us on our exciting growth journey as a Legal Cashier Supervisor!
This brand-new opportunity arises from our ongoing expansion and offers you the chance to lead and inspire our legal cashier and accounts payable team to excellence. Working alongside the Finance Manager, this is a key role to ensure the overall provision of an effective and accurate operational finance service to the firm, ensuring adherence to SRA Accounts rules and internal processes.
What you’ll do:
In this role you’ll assist the Finance Manager in leading a team and managing all aspects of the day-to-day finance team operations within the business, ensuring the team complies with SRA Accounts Rules and produces work which is of a high standard with a “right first time” approach. Your workday will be interesting and varied and will require you to:
- Act as the lead for our legal cashiering and accounts payable function, whilst managing a small team.
- Assist in provide training and guidance both within the team and the wider business on SRA Accounts Rules aligned with our internal process.
- Problem solve and support remedy of any complex bank reconciliation or processing discrepancies in a timely and compliant manner.
- Assist in all bank administration for our various banks and portals.
- Assist the Finance Manager with the interim and annual audit process with our external auditors for SRA purposes.
- Deal with annual performance reviews as well as daily/regular supervision and professional development of the team.
- Be confident in reflecting on our current processes and make suggestions and implementing for improvement to the efficiency of the team – this would include training and adoption across the business.
What we’re looking for:
- Proven Legal Cashier experience/expertise.
- Experience of proactively supervising/developing a finance related team.
- Good experience of accounting, and bank procedures, along with knowledge (or skills to develop knowledge) of Solicitors Account Rules.
- Experience planning/prioritising work to deadlines, leading others to do the same.
- A proactive and organised approach to own work and work of others to support effective operational supervision/management of the team.
- Excellent knowledge and experience of finance systems/software and Excel spreadsheets.
- A natural ability to produce high quality, accurate work and be a role model for others to do the same, along with a keen eye for detail.
- A highly self-motivated individual with the ability to bring out the best in others.
- A flexible approach and the ability to work and flourish in a positive team environment.
Pre-employment screening
Successful applicants will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team.
Eligibility to work in the UK
Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process. All candidates must be able to prove their right to work in the UK, which may include meeting the Home Office criteria for Visa sponsorship. Candidates who require sponsorship should evaluate the Home Office eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa before applying and keep up to date with any legal developments.
Our offer to you
In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. Tailored to match the level you’re working at, we encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, 28 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday managing your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters. Take a look here to find out more about Our benefits | Foot Anstey.
Why Foot Anstey?
As one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients’ goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.
Over our history we’ve grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients’ needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from seven locations: Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton, and London.
Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital Skills Academy and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time in 2021. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role, you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.
Foot Anstey. Powering Your Ambition.
