Our client is a dynamic and expanding US law firm with over 35 offices in all the leading business and finance centres in the US, Europe and the Far East.
They are now looking to hire a Accounts Payable Specialist. This role is responsible for the firms accounts payable system from invoice through to payment. This includes both firm expenditures, as you would expect from an accounts payable role, but also includes our professional disbursements which relate to legal work for our clients. In addition to the processing there will be the requirement of reporting on spend and proactively manage our current processes with a view to improving them. The finance team consists of six including this role and it is a crucial requirement that the candidate can fit into the team environment.
Responsibilities
- Full ownership of the accounts payable function
- Assist the team with the firms expenses which are recorded through Concur
- Accurate and timely processing of supplier invoices
- Recording and reconciling credit card transactions and direct debits
- Checking and processing of external professional fees and disbursements
- Ensuring refunds and credits are dealt with in line with SRA Accounts Rules
- Maintaining and reconciling the petty cash
- Uploading payments into the banking system and submitting for approval
- Checking, formatting and submitting taxi/courier invoices to the US for uploading
- Ensuring digital invoices are filed in an organized manner and uploading copies into the accounting software
- Producing month end reports for management and audit purposes
Candidate Profile
- Knowledge on VAT process
- Basic understanding of accounting principles
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral
- Must be motivated and driven to deliver an excellent service to internal and external clients
- Demonstrates the ability to work in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
- Excellent IT skills (Word, Excel, and Outlook).
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 vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.
