A little about me.

I moved from Salans to a large International law firm based in London for only a matter of months before Julie called me back to Salans. I gladly returned back to where it all began to find that rush again. The new department were not busy enough to keep my mind active and have me working at that special pressure fuelled pace my brain yearned for. Two years later, I took on a new role in the West End at a mid sized firm to run the client account. Once I got there, it was clear that once again, they didn’t have enough of a demanding department to keep me occupied and, after only a couple of months I handed in my notice and went to another large International law firm based in London. Now this was where the fun really began. 2 months prior to my arrival, they had converted systems to Elite Enterprise and my gosh it was a messy conversion. I spent 2-3 months untangling and reconciling their client account correctly. I was offered a permanent contract as the client account cashier. The Head Cashier rearranged the department replacing the previous client account team of 3 to myself and a part time cashier assisting me 2 days a week. I flourished in this role. I was kept busy and on down days, there were enough projects for me to sink my teeth into. I became the accounts department trainer for all cashiering aspects: client account, office account, purchase ledger and billing. I stayed there for 2 years until the Head Cashier was offered a new role at a small law firm in the West End. Of course, he took his best cashier with him…that was me by the way. The new firm had a huge plot sales department which meant we were transaction heavy in the accounts department. The department was a small well oiled machine that ploughed through the requests at a pretty good speed however, mistakes were often made and that process just needed to be smoothed over ever so slightly. The busiest day I ever had in that department resulted in me processing over 170 (I can not remember the exact number) completions. 170 doesn’t sound too bad does it? But for each completion you had to firstly receipt the monies into the account, then send the completion funds, then send the service charge and ground rent payments, follow it up with three invoices and three client to office transactions. All of this being reflected both on the system and at the bank on the same day. I smashed it and I smashed it whilst singing my heart out to a bit of My Chemical Romance. I took a small 2.5 month break due to the firm merging and the department feeling very at risk. I joined the cashiering team of an international law firm based in Chelmsford, Essex. Interestingly enough, I actually went into this interview with a different approach. I actively told the Head Cashier if I wasn’t kept busy I’d leave very quickly. There were protests of me never being in a department as busy as theirs bla bla bla but alas, my daily work load was completed every day before lunch and I was once again left twiddling my thumbs. The Practice Manager from the small West End firm I had left gave me a call. Turns out the merging of the two accounts departments didn’t go as well as planned and now there were 4 client accounts and 4 office accounts that are not reconciling and no one knew how to fix it. I was offered the position of Senior Client cashier and off I skipped, back to the West End. Within 2 months I had rectified the errors within all 8 bank accounts and established a new process that worked across the two systems and the multiple bank accounts. I retrained the members of staff that had come from the other team and was promoted again to Senior Cashier of both office and client account. I stayed at there as the Senior Cashier until the birth of my son in 2017. By the time I left for maternity leave, I was supervising all cashiers, completing all bank reconciliations, I was responsible for over £500,000,000.00 which was spread over 25 bank accounts and over 500 deposit accounts and the reconciliation of all accounts on a monthly basis. I calculated partners commission payments, completed the cashflow, trained members of staff across the firm and completed the annual SRA audit every year. I was replaced me with 2 senior cashiers and a part time cashier when I left for maternity leave. I did not return following the birth of my son. I decided to take on a new role as Head Cashier at a Boutique law firm in Mayfair. Here was where it all changed. This was not a transaction heavy firm however, it was a badly managed accounts department with awful systems, no processes and an Owner that believed he could outsmart the calculator when it came to numbers. I became not only the head cashier but the substitute HR lady, the payroll clerk and the office manager when others were absent or in times of crisis. Whilst on my lunch break, I had a little look at LinkedIn and I saw a job advertised…Forensic Investigation Officer at the Solicitors Regulation Authority. I knew immediately I could do it and do you know what, I was right. 5 years later here I am. Looking to embark on a new journey to take everything I have learned and throw it into something I love and I am passionate about. What the last 5 years have taught me is that I am a really good cashier, probably the best. We can debate about that later if you disagree.