We have a great opportunity for an experienced Legal Cashier
(Accounts Payable) to join our growing Finance department based in our central
Bristol office offering some hybrid working.
This position will play a crucial role in maintaining the
Accounts Payable (AP) Ledgers, ensuring all external costs are accurately and
promptly accounted for, adhering to rules and internal controls, and providing
excellent customer service to both internal and external customers.
This is a permanent position offering flexibility to meet
deadlines as required.
The role
The Legal Cashier (Accounts Payable) will be a key member of
the Finance team, promoting collaboration, team working, and innovation. This
role will involve processing invoices, disbursements, expenses, and travel
feeds, maintaining the integrity of the AP ledgers, and ensuring supplier
statements are reconciled and invoices are paid to terms.
Other key responsibilities include:
- Accounts Payable Work: Undertake all aspects of Accounts
Payable work in line with agreed policies and procedures, maintaining controls
and responding promptly to requests for advice and information.
- Invoice Processing: Processing of invoices (UK &
foreign), disbursements, expenses and travel feeds, both through manual input
and costs uploading.
- Ledger Maintenance: Maintain the integrity of the AP
ledgers, making adjustments where necessary to ensure full compliance with
internal controls and other regulations (SRA & Accounting standards).
- Supplier Management: Ensure supplier statements are
reconciled, invoices are paid to terms, suppliers are accurately set up on the
system, and outstanding balances are chased and cleared.
- Query Resolution: Investigate supplier chasing letters and
supplier/internal queries, responding promptly and ensuring that relevant
people are kept up to date with progress.
- Administrative Support: Assist with administrative tasks,
filing, compiling data, conducting research and undertaking special projects as
well as supporting other members of the Finance team in the preparation of
financial information as required.
We are looking for
- Accounts Payable/Purchase Ledger specialist with experience
working within a law firm.
- Self-motivated and proactive with the ability to work with
minimal supervision to identify and act on issues which need to be escalated.
- Ability to work within strict deadlines with a high level of
accuracy and attention to detail whilst remaining calm in a busy environment.
- Experience of working with multiple currencies and good VAT
compliance and SRA accounts rules knowledge.
- Ability to work well within a team and communicate and
interact appropriately and constructively with customers and colleagues.
- Good time management and organisation skills & ability
to prioritise workloads.
- Substantial experience in a similar position from the legal
sector.
- Strong knowledge of Chrome River and Elite 3E or Enterprise
preferable.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills and ability to
build relationships and work with people of all levels of seniority.
- Good IT proficiency, with strong keyboard skills and a sound
knowledge of Excel.
Salary and benefits
We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.
Our recruitment process
Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.
We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.