Finance Assistant (Cashiering)

Carson McDowell is Northern Ireland's leading commercial law firm, the law firm of choice for many of Northern Ireland's Top 100 companies and international companies doing business here. Our rich mixture of people, culture, heritage and reputation makes us who we are.

Our continued success is dependent on attracting and retaining the top talent in all areas of the business. We now have a vacancy for a Finance Assistant (Cashiering) to join our Finance team. The Finance team consists of a Finance Director, Finance Manager, Financial Accountant, Credit Controller and 4 Finance Assistants. This role reports to the Finance Manager and will share responsibility for the daily banking transactional activity of the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintaining complete and accurate bank account records
• Keying, posting & co-authorising of electronic payments to cut-off times
• Liaising with colleagues (including professional staff) and branch banking teams to record receipt of transactional funds
• Posting client cash to ledgers, direct debits & supplier payments
• Posting & printing cheques (daily)
• Reconciling multiple bank accounts (daily)
• Arranging foreign currency payments
• Treasury (moving funds between banks to ensure appropriate funds)
• Resolving queries with other banks, solicitor’s firms, clients and government organisations

Other Duties

• Organising & maintaining a busy general accounts mailbox
• Collaborating with team members to ensure emails are actioned
• Providing cover & support for other members of the team as required

Experience:

• Essential – 2 years working in a busy transactional role requiring a high degree of accuracy with cut-off times
• Essential – Cashiering or Bookkeeping (Legal background desirable)
• Essential – working within a finance team
• Essential – working with MS Excel, Outlook & Teams
• Essential – working with computerised accounting software
• Desirable – working within a Regulated environment
• Desirable – working within a Professional Services environment
• Desirable – working with foreign bank accounts

Skills & Abilities:

This role covers a broad spectrum of both accountancy and administrative activities and consequently requires an individual that has initiative and the ability to operate across a diversity of tasks.

• Essential – Strong communication, interpersonal & organisational skills
• Essential – Ability to work individually and as part of a team
• Essential – Ability to use initiative to keep own & others’ work current