Accounts Assistant

Our Client is a full service commercial law firm based in London’s legal district. They have more than 60 partners and over 300 employees. The Finance department is made up of a central management team, Cashiers, Billing and Credit Control teams.

They are looking for a part time Accounts Assistant which sits within the accounts payable team. The accounts payable team deal with the processing of supplier invoices and employee expenses, managing the firm’s office account payments, compliance with VAT regulations and dealing with queries from the wider firm and external suppliers, across multiple jurisdictions and currencies.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of the firm’s supplier invoice and expense claim payments weekly and dealing with other ad hoc payments, ensuring timely and accurate processing in line with the Firm’s policy.

• Ensuring the correct VAT recovery of transactions posted.

• Management of the team’s shared inbox, using the firm’s various IT packages and liaising with stakeholders around the business and within the wider Finance team to resolve queries.

• Involvement in monthly reporting, such as identification of areas requiring prepayments and accruals at each month end.

Candidate Profile

• Strong numeracy, technical and IT skills including Excel and ideally experience of practice management systems or other accounting software packages.
• Excellent attention to detail and a consistently high level of accuracy.
• An understanding of VAT recovery processes.
• The ability to manage their own time, organise their work and deal with queries efficiently and promptly.
• The ability to work with the rest of the team, supporting others as required.
• The ability to build relationships with partners and key stakeholders across the firm.
• The knowledge and desire to identify and implement improvements to processes and procedures.
• Strong communication skills at all levels of the organisation.
• An enthusiastic and flexible approach with a 'can do’ attitude.

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.