Run cron job on every 1st day of month on Heroku Server - heroku

On Heroku server, there are options for cron job to be run hourly or daily basis.
Cakephp project has been deployed on Heroku Server.
I need to run cron job on 1st of every month.
Any solution or suggestion to handle this?

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