Description
The Role
Department: Finance
Location: Scotland
Role: Accounts Payable Clerk
The Team
The Scottish Finance Team is composed of six members located in our Glasgow and Edinburgh offices, including one Supervisor, one Senior Accounts Payable Clerk, and four Accounts Payable Clerks.
Key Responsibilities
* Process and manage incoming invoices using Chrome River, ensuring accuracy and compliance with the firm's policies.
* Maintain accurate records of all accounts payable transactions and ensure proper documentation is in place.
* Respond to tickets raised by vendors and internal stakeholders regarding invoice statuses, payment issues, and other related queries via ServiceNow.
* Collaborate with team members to ensure compliance with financial policies and procedures.
* Provide support for audits and assist with any inquiries related to accounts payable.
* Review and prioritize payment requests based on due dates and available cash flow, ensuring that critical payments are made promptly.
* Manage the processing of daily and weekly payments using our 3E database, ensuring accurate uploads to NatWest or RBS Bankline. Adjust and post exchange rate differences as necessary to facilitate reconciliation of entries.
* Continuously seek opportunities to improve processes and enhance efficiency within the accounts payable function.
* Assisting with any other reasonable requests as determined by AP Supervisor and other senior finance managers.
Essential Skills & Experience
* Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
* Excellent attention to detail
* Strong interpersonal skills
* Maintain positive "can do" attitude at all times
* First-rate organisational skills and ability to prioritise competing workloads
* Elite experience, specifically Elite 3E is ideal
* Understanding of VAT regulations
* Strong numeracy skills
* Excellent written & verbal communication skills
* Professional telephone and email manner
The Firm
Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment.
Our Values
Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for our clients and our firm. We:
* Work as one: We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success.
* Excel with clients: We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do.
* Celebrate difference: We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement.
* Act boldly: We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth.
Business Services Competencies
Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations. The competencies are used to inform all aspects of Business Services career development. They vary across levels and different business areas and fall under the following areas:
* Technical Excellence
* People and Team
* Client/Stakeholder Relationships
* Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
* Personal Effectiveness
This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.
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