This is an Administration role within the Accounts Payable Team based
in the Scottish Finance Team assisting with all administrative duties
relating to the Accounts Payable functions.
Payments
The Accounts Payable team is responsible for ensuring that all
supplier invoices are recorded and paid in line with the supplier
payment terms. Whilst providing an important support service to the
partners and other finance departments within the firm. This role will
ensure all information recorded within our database is accurate and current.
Key Responsibilities
Monitoring the team inbox and dealing with incoming supplier
requests, maintaining the request log used by the billing assistants.
Perform validity checks to information change requests within the
3E database.
Assist in maintaining a tracker used by the team when reviewing
the status of vendors to see if they currently held within the
global database.
Liaising with the accounts payable team across the UK ensure the
supplier creation journey remains to be quick and seamless.
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.
Work closely with the procurement team to ensure newly acquired
vendors are seamlessly created within the database.
Any other duties considered reasonable.
Essential Skills & Experience
Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
Excellent attention to detail
Strong inter personal 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
Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
Strong numeracy skills
Excellent organisational skills
Attention to detail with a high level of accuracy
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. The firm has 480
partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people
overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.
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.
