Working Capital Team Lead

2 weeks ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Allen & Overy Full time

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. 

Department purpose 
 
The Belfast Finance department provides services to the A&O network of offices covering management and financial accounting & reporting, revenue control (includes eBilling), credit control, accounts payable and tax. Offices currently served are London, Belfast, US, South Africa, Dubai, Israel, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. 
 
There is a strong client service ethic and we work to Service Level Agreements, targets and deadlines to deliver in line with client expectations. 
 
As a Working Capital Team Lead, you will be responsible for approx. 8 direct reports, delivering a working capital service to the US offices. Service coverage may vary from time to time as additional A&O organisations are migrated into the function. 
 
What you will do 

Assist the Manager in the transactional Working Capital processes for the relevant Offices 

Work with the Working Capital Manager to create a training plan to develop team members and upskill in dual job roles 

Take responsibility for day to day running of newly formed Working Capital Team. 

Lead the team by allocating daily tasks, managing revenue tracker, advising on debt escalations and bad debt cases, as well as carrying out regular 1-2-1s with each of the team members 

Allocate work effectively, making realistic compromises when necessary in order to deliver exceptional service 

What you will have 

Track record of successfully leading a fast past transactional team 

Experience & awareness of working with customers across differing countries and cultures 

Good numeracy and literacy skills 

Computer literate with experience in Microsoft Office and a complex finance systems 

Ability to deliver high quality client service through the building of strong trusted advisor relationships with customers and manager 

Encourage a collaborative working environment; 

Effective leader of self, team and task to ensure quality services are consistently delivered; 

Ability to apply technical knowledge and understand and identify solutions to technical issues 

The ability to create and establish credibility with the team very quickly; 

High level of professionalism at all times and flexible working approach; 

Agile communicator and able to deliver difficult messages sensitively and resolve conflict; 

Demonstrate excellent organisational skills with an aptitude to understand new concepts quickly 

Ability to manage impact of change within the team 

Note: hours of work are Monday – Friday 2.00pm – 10.30pm 

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