Finance Officer - Accounts Payable (Group Expenditure)
• Work for a well-respected and well recognised organisation
• Work as part of a cohesive and loyal team
• Excellent benefits
The Role
You will be responsible for providing a full accounts payable service to include the accurate and timely payment of supplier invoices, expenses, and payment requisitions. You will pro-actively investigate and resolve all un-reconciled invoices and goods received notices and any other issues preventing payments to suppliers in a timely manner, liaising with SRA, Law Society and shared services employees to resolve the issues. You will be a real team player and be happy to offer support to colleagues on ad hoc tasks as well as providing cover during periods of absence.
This is a great opportunity to join a fantastic organisation and team!
What we’re looking for?
• Experience of working in an Accounts Payable role
• Excellent customer service
• Team player
We are recruiting 4 permanent positions.
To apply for this role, please submit your CV and covering letter. Please ensure that your CV and covering letter clearly demonstrate how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience requirements of the role.
Interviews are scheduled for Friday 20 May and Wednesday 25 May 2016
Essential
Educated to GCSE or equivalent standard in Mathematics and English Language
Experience in Accounts Payable and General Ledger accounting function
Confident and accurate in the use of computerised finance systems for the input of numerical and alphabetical data, and the output of standard reports
Experience in Supplier Account Reconciliations
Basic understanding of VAT and taxation rules relating to purchases and payments
High level of customer awareness
Good attention to detail
Ability to achieve deadlines when working under pressure
Excellent organisational and planning skills
Ability to demonstrate initiative - capable of making considered decisions confidently and correctly and taking related actions
Excellent communication skills, confident & professional in both verbal and written, together with a high level of interpersonal skills
Strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills
Excellent IT skills including spreadsheets and word processing packages
Desirable
Previous experience of working in a shared service environment
Experience of using Dynamics AX
Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.
Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to the performance of our organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.
We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.
This opportunity is closed to applicants.