Accounts Payable Assistant (Fixed Term Contract)
Reference: JTDCTBEX
Location: Bexleyheath
This role involves but is not limited to:
1. Uploading, reviewing and approving invoices submitted in Chrome River and ensuring all coding is correct.
2. Reconciling supplier statements & identifying and requesting missing supplier invoices.
3. Communicating with staff & suppliers responding to any queries.
4. Posting court fees to client matters including investigation of unassigned courts fees.
5. Processing and paying referral fees.
6. Monitoring disbursements, posting to specific matters on the portal and processing payments.
7. Answering the telephone, with queries from the wider firm and external vendors/clients.
8. Processing disbursements onto ledgers and reconciling of counsel fees in the process.
9. Posting Searches invoices.
10. Ensuring the payment cycle runs smoothly and effectively for both disbursement and overhead invoices.
11. Processing payment of Paid When Paid within 48 hours and Legal Aid Agency within 14 days of receiving funds.
12. Processing CHAPS, BACS, FastPay and international payment transactions.
13. Answering the telephone and taking client card payments.
14. Processing compensation or complaint payments.
Requirements:
1. Excellent communication skills & telephone manner.
2. Professional outlook.
3. Strong Excel & Office skills.
4. Able to work in a busy and pressurised environment.
5. Excellent attention to detail.
6. Able to work as a team as well as alone.
7. Able to manage multiple workloads.
Company Core Values:
1. Aspire: To challenge convention, an entrepreneur with energy for change. To be the best that we can be.
2. Integrate: Bring together people and systems into a cohesive force.
3. Innovate: To creatively evolve our working practices, use our revenue and resources in a virtuous cycle of improving our people, systems and growth.
4. Commit: To delivering excellent client experience and working with integrity, investing in long term relationships, creating a strong market position and delivering sustained commercial advantage.
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