Osborne Clarke are seeking an experienced Legal Cashier (Accounts Payable) to join our growing Finance department in our Bristol office.
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 hybrid working.
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
We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Dan Jones (Recruitment Manager) at [email protected].
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.