Take ad hoc payments received through card or online or cash and reconcile card entries with bank statement on day to day basis.
Deposit cash, cheque
Filing routine paperwork,
Collect incoming post and deal with.
Weekly task:
Client and office account reconciliation
LAA remittance for the three offices: monies generally received every Monday in office account. Collect remittance and pay disbursements on timely basis.
Chase disbursement invoices from fee earner/billing clerk
Go through all office account entries.
Payment from client and office account generally every Thursday
Bank reconciliation
Monthly task:
Sage payroll: Monthly wages on last Thursday but need to be set everything by Tuesday and make ready and send it before 5.00 pm for three days payment . Overtime calculation, furlough calculation, SSP, deduction calculation,
Pension calculation to Scottish Life.
Furlough submission
Childcare voucher request
FPS submission, monthly return with EPS and P32 to pay PAYE with HMRC
Claim any SSP, SPP
Payslip distribution
Partners PAYE for our companies (-submit FPS with HMRC.
Three-way client account reconciliation (including all three designated account and Lloyds client account). Client account must be signed by a senior partner.
Reconciliation of Office account, Step-saver Barclays account and Lloyds Office account.
CDS entries which generally happened after 20th of each month
Sort out travel entries which relate to CDS-6
Reconcile monthly CDS and CMRF figures with amount received.
Fill compliance caddy on DG Legal website.
Quarterly task:
VAT (Our VAT quarters are Feb-Apr, May-July, Aug-Oct and Nov-Jan) which are due on 07th June, 7th of Sept, 7th of Dec and 7th of March respectively.
Quarterly cashflow variance
Management report when partners needed
Year-end entries, deal with audit (generally in May or June every month), close account and necessary record keeping for year-end procedure.