Accounts Payable Assistant

3 weeks ago


Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom Norton Rose Fulbright LLP Full time

Practice Group / Department:

Accounts Payable - UK

Job Description

We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. At Norton Rose Fulbright, our strategy and our culture are closely entwined. We know that our expansion will mean little unless it is underpinned by truly global collaboration and we understand that pioneering work only takes place when our people have room to move and think beyond boundaries. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do.

The Role

The role sits within our Finance Department in Newcastle, reporting to the UK Accounts Payable Team Lead. The role is in a team that provides support to the accounts payable function for the UK covering a range of finance and administration related tasks to ensure invoices and payments are processed in a timely, accurate manner and that Norton Rose Fulbright LLP complies with all statutory and regulatory requirements. The firm uses SAP as its ERP solution and will utilise Chrome River/Emburse software to handle the workflow of invoices and expenses. The team also provide Accounts Payable support and best practice options to the wider EMEA region.

Key responsibilities

  • Reviewing and actioning requests for new UK vendor set ups and changes to vendor data, ensuring full authenticity checks are made in line with compliance requirements (including Bribery Act 2010, Money Laundering, Sanctions). Passing reviewed requests to the global team for action in SAP and monitoring/chasing outstanding requests
  • Reviewing UK expense report submissions from the business, ensure correct receipting, expense type selection, VAT treatments are applied and that expenses are claimed in line with UK policy. Liaising with the business and the EMEA Chrome River support teams as required
  • Reviewing UK non-chargeable invoices ensuring correct vendor selection, invoice types, codings and VAT treatments are applied. Liaising with the business and the EMEA Chrome River support teams as required
  • Managing the journal and soft cost upload processes – receiving data for recharges, ensuring any corresponding invoices are processed, reformatting the data to enable uploads into SAP. Managing exception items, ensuring that material costs are correctly processed and assisting Finance Business partners and revenue controllers with any queries in relation to postings
  • Inbox management – responsible for reviewing and actioning emails sent to the UK AP inboxes (expenses, invoices and consultants), including the routing of invoices to approvers as required, reconciling key vendor and ad hoc statements that may be received and following up on outstanding items and dealing with all other queries in a timely manner via the team pending report
  • Reviewing ad hoc payment requests (submitted via the internal Fin15 form) and spreadsheet requests for upload to the firm’s HSBCnet platform, ensuring appropriate payment methods and treatments are applied
  • Providing support to and liaising with the payment team on payment requests and timings, outstanding bank reconciliation items
  • Other ad hoc tasks as may be required

Key Skills and experience

  • Able to work as part of team, sharing knowledge and ideas with peers, proactive and working towards shared goals
  • Keen sense of responsibility, ability to set a professional example and ensure the team commits to and delivers to defined scope and timeframes
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate in a professional, approachable manner at all levels, and to non-Finance professionals, both verbally and in writing.
  • Able to follow standard operating procedures whilst being able to exercise good judgement and decision making when presented with anomalies and non-standard requests
  • Knowledge of SAP, Chrome River or other invoice/expense workflow solution useful
  • Able to use Microsoft Office suite (intermediate excel (including formatting), Word and Outlook). Knowledge of Power BI may also be useful
  • Experience of a professional services environment

Our clients come first; whilst we have a high-performance culture and work hard as a team, in return we offer a range of competitive benefits including:

  • 25 days holiday + Bank Hols
  • Free Virtual GP Service
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Pension – Norton Rose Fulbright will also make a contribution
  • Life Assurance
  • Income Protection Insurance
  • Enhanced Maternity, Adoption or Surrogacy Leave
  • Carers Leave
  • Flexible working

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. Our new enabled work model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing. Find more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams. We strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any tailored adjustments or accommodations, please let us know here.


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