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SalaryOur client is an award-winning international law firm that can trace it roots to the late 1800s. Perhaps uniquely among major firms, they have retained a major client from this time. The firm now has a global reach spanning Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Latin America.
They are now looking to hire an Accounts Payable Manager to join the accounts team of 21 on a contract to permanent basis. The candidate should have experience in working as a Accounts Payable Supervisor and previously worked for a law firm.
Responsibilities
- Managing the account payable function and maintaining an overview of the team's workload.
- Ensure adherence to all relevant financial controls and Firm policies and procedures.
- To identify process improvement opportunities and actively work with other team members to improve and streamline the AP function.
- Pro-actively engage with wider business on process improvements. Continually gathering feedback and improving the stakeholder experience.
- To ensure that service levels and quality of work are maintained to the highest standards
- Managing the team of 3 Accounts Payable assistants
- Delivering timely feedback on performance (both day to day and formal appraisals), identifying training needs, managing delivery and generally supporting the team.
- Distributing and monitoring work amongst the team, ensuring tasks are dealt with on a timely basis
- Monitoring the settlement of all Accounts Payable related transactions.
- Timely resolution of supplier and internal stakeholder queries
- Accurate and timely inputting and posting of Accounts Payable transactions, including suppliers and Counsel fees
- Processing of staff expenses through Concur.
- To work with the firm's Legal Cashiers team and Billing team to ensure all account payable related transactions are dealt with promptly.
Candidate Profile
- Legal AP experience at a senior level
- Experience of managing AP teams with at least 3 account payable assistants.
- Aderant or Elite knowledge would be advantageous but not essential
- Excellent organisation skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meeting strict deadlines
- Stakeholder focussed
- Strong communication skills
- Strong Excel skills
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.
