Accounts Payable Assistant Manager

Slater Gordon; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer law firm in Liverpool is seeking an Assistant Accounts Payable Manager to enhance their Finance Shared Services. This role involves managing the Accounts Payable function, ensuring timely payments, and overseeing team responsibilities. The firm offers a flexible hybrid working environment and a competitive salary with various benefits.

Benefits

25 days holiday allowance

Option to purchase an extra 5 days

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Income protection insurance

Qualifications

• Excellent Excel and reporting skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Strong organizational skills with realistic deadline setting.

Responsibilities

• Manage creditors of disbursements.
• Oversee the reconciliations of supplier statements.
• Ensure tasks are completed in line with SRA and audit standards.

Skills

Excel

Reporting

Communication

Job description

Slater and Gordon are a leading consumer law firm which provides a broad range of specialist legal and complementary services. We are undergoing a huge transformation across all areas of the business, with a focus on people and technology, and our mission is to give people easier access to our world class legal services.

We are currently recruiting for a Assistant Accounts Payable Manager to join our team in Liverpool.

Responsible for providing an efficient and accurate Accounts Payable function as part of the Finance Shared Services function. The provision of the Accounts Payable function facilitates timely payments to our suppliers, ensuring working capital is maximised and communicated effectively both internally and externally to key stakeholders.

The role will be key to ensure we have accurate creditors ledgers and timely communication to suppliers and key stakeholders in the wider business.

Responsibilities

• Managing creditors of disbursements
• Accountable for the timely processing of transactions
• Oversee the reconciliations of supplier statements
• Responsibility of allocation of work across the team and being the first point of contact
• Working with the relevant departments to review and implement new improved processes.
• Approving annual leave in line with company policy.
• First point of contact for all absences and AWOL.
• Ensuring all of the team is up to date with mandatory training.
• Reviewing and managing payment runs.
• Reviewing work of your team to ensure accuracy.
• Taking accountability of your own and your teams’ responsibilities.
• Ensuring all tasks are completed in line with SRA and audit standards.
• Ad hoc duties from Manager or Head of Transactions
• Complete End of Year PDR’s and mid-year reviews

About you

• Excellent excel and reporting skills
• Openly encourages the sharing of information, judging when, with whom, and what to communicate, whilst maintaining confidentiality where necessary
• Setting realistic deadlines and putting contingency plans in place to ensure deadlines are met.

What we offer in return:

We offer a flexible hybrid working environment, alongside a competitive salary and benefits package including 25 days holiday allowance plus the option to purchase an extra 5 days, pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection insurance. The opportunity to develop a rewarding and successful career with an award- winning law firm.

Slater and Gordon are a leading consumer law firm, and our mission is to give people easier access to world class legal services. We are a legal services business powered by technology and led by people that support customers in every step of their case.

At Slater and Gordon Lawyers (UK) we are inclusive. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view. We believe diversity drives innovation. So, we’re building a culture where difference is valued. Our culture motivates our employees to give their full selves to the job and invest in the company’s future.