Finance Assistant - Accounts Payable

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Assistant to join the Accounts Payable team, based in the A&O Shearman Belfast office.

A&O Belfast Finance

Belfast Finance is part of the A&O Shearman Support Services Centre, which was founded in 2011 with the aim of offering support to the A&O network.

Within the Belfast Finance, our services encompass managing financial accounting and reporting, revenue and ebilling, credit control, accounts payable, and tax. We provide support to offices located in London, the United States, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. Our approach is marked by a robust dedication to client service, and we diligently adhere to Service Level Agreements, targets, and deadlines to ensure that our performance aligns with client expectations.

A&O Shearman

A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with 48 offices in 29 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world's most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.

We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world's leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.

Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.

What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.

What you will do

As a Finance Assistant in the Accounts Payable team, you will ensure high quality services are provided to both internal and external clients on a timely basis. You will also work with the Team Lead to continually strive to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the reporting systems and transactional processes, in addition to working with and supporting the appropriate Accounts Payable team to ensure accuracy and timeliness of work in accordance with pre-determined metrics.

This is varied role, including elements of data entry, handling client enquires, providing detailed financial information in addition to general support and advice.

What you will have

• Commitment to providing professional, responsive and effective relationships
  
• Excellent communicator and confident in interaction with others
  
• Delivers tasks in a professional and organised way with limited supervision
  
• Ability to work well under pressure and multi task to meet targets and tight deadlines, with a keen eye for accuracy
  
• Committed to the maintenance of established processes and systems
  
• Enthusiastic, pro-active and flexible approach
  
• Ability to assimilate large amounts of information quickly & learn rapidly
  
• Experience of working within a busy Accounts Payable environment
  
  What we can offer you
  
  At A&O Shearman, we recognise that our people are our most valuable asset, which is reflected in the wide range of benefits that are available to our employees. Some of these benefits include: our occupational pension scheme, group income protection cover, private medical insurance, mental health resources and free apps, health and wellbeing services including GP service, emergency back-up care support, parental and special leave, holiday entitlement increasing with length of service, holiday trading, online discounts and lifestyle management services.
  
  Please note this role is based in the A&O Belfast office, with an onsite presence required at least 60% of the time in line with our hybrid working policy.

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