Accounts Payable Assistant

2 weeks ago


London, UK, United Kingdom Career Legal Full time

This client is global law firm with offices in key business centres across the Americas, Asia and Europe. The firm employs approximately 2000 lawyers. Their London office has a headcount of circa 800 and offices in the City

A permanent position has opened up for an Accounts Payable Assistant, the role is responsible for working as part of the office account cashiering and accounts payable team for the firms London office, which also incorporates the day to day financial operation processing of the firms Brussels, Dubai and Tokyo offices, creating a centre of excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with Directors and account stakeholders ensuring the prompt processing of invoices
  • To ensure accurate and timely inputting and posting of all office account transactions in accordance with internal Service Level Agreements and the current SRA Accounts Rules 2019
  • Ensuring that all respective financial controls and the firms policies and procedures are adhered to at all time
  • Working as part of a team that is committed to providing an exceptional service to the firm and its clients
  • Prepare and process electronic payments and receipts in accordance with statutory compliance, internal controls and service level agreements
  • Releasing of client and office account payments in line with current procedures within our banking platform
  • Following-up on un-allocated monies and ensure the correct treatment of funds on Office account
  • Provide support and understanding to any outstanding bank reconciliation items
  • Reconcile, process and pay professional disbursements through electronic platform in accordance with statutory compliance, internal controls and service level agreements
  • Assist with the processing of all office account payments, expenses, credit notes, direct debits and ad-hoc supplier payments as required
  • Reconcile, review and upload electronic supplier invoices
  • Pro-actively reconcile supplier invoices, following up with suppliers to ensure the prompt posting of charges
  • Assist with internal/external audits including SAR AR audit Monitoring compliance with SRA Accounts Rules, through exception control reporting and to ensure any breaches are promptly reported and remedied

Candidate Profile

  • Previous experience of working within legal finance for a global law firm is desirable. The candidate must have experience of working within Accounts Payable; dealing with high volumes, coding, posting, obtaining authority and managing suppliers.
  • A demonstrable knowledge of statutory regulation such as the SRA Accounts Rules, VAT and Anti-Money Laundering regulations preferable
  • Experience of Aderant Expert/Elite preferable.

Important Notice

It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanent vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.



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