Finance Administrator

Squire Patton Boggs have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Administrator (12 month FTC) to join the team.
Location: Leeds (LS1 4AP)
Salary: Competitive
Job Type: Full time, 12 month Fixed Term Contract
Team: Business Intake Team
About Us:
Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions by combining our legal and public policy capabilities and invaluable connections on the ground to a diverse mix of exceptional clients, from long–established leading corporations to emerging businesses, start–up visionaries and sovereign nations.
More than 1,500 lawyers operating in 40+ offices across four continents provide unrivalled access to expertise. We have 16 offices in Europe alone, with four in the UK in London, Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham.
Our Finance Service Centre in Leeds is a large team made of up Credit Control, Accounts Payable, Database & Billing, Cashiers, and Business Intake. The team provide centralised support for all of the UK offices and ensure they provide a world class service to the firm's internal and external clients.
Finance Administrator The Role:
Are you looking to take the first step in your career with a global organisation? Are you keen to work in a friendly, supportive office environment? If so, then this could be the role for you. We are looking for a Finance Administrator (known as a Business Intake Administrator internally) to join our global Finance team in Leeds on a 12–month fixed term contract.
Finance Administrator Key Responsibilities:
– Completing Anti–Money Laundering (AML) and other compliance checks prior to the firm engaging new clients, and new matters for existing clients
– You will also be responsible for inputting data into our verification system
– Responsible for monitoring progress of the verification checks
The firm opens a large number of new matters, and onboards a significant volume of new clients each month, therefore you will be required to work efficiently and diligently, often with sensitive personal data.
Finance Administrator You:
– Key requirement: Attention to detail
– Key requirement: Commitment to producing high–quality work
– Key requirement: A high level of accuracy
– Capable of working both independently and as part of a team
– Proven organisational skills
– Excellent oral and written communication skills
– Previous experience in a similar role would be beneficial but not essential, as full training will be provided
Finance Administrator Benefits:
– 25 days holiday as standard + bank holidays
– Life Assurance & Income Protection
– Pension scheme with employer contribution
– Well–regarded family, carer, wellbeing and DEI programmes to provide a variety of flexible working options to support individuals' life journeys, helping our people pursue their personal and professional goals
Application Process:
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please follow the application process.
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We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is representative of our diverse society. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.