Purchase Ledger Clerk

Job Title: Purchase Ledger Clerk

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits

Reports to: Purchase Ledger Supervisor & Finance Operations Manager

About Us

gunnercooke LLP is a Top 50 law firm with recognition across 28 disciplines and over 50 individually ranked lawyers. Having launched in 2010, the firm has grown to over 450 solicitors, including 360+ Partners.

We are the blueprint for the future of legal services, a firm that is passionately, obsessively focused on brilliant service for its clients. A law firm, with a difference.

We’ve taken away lots of the constraints that prevent lawyers from giving a brilliant client service and we’ve replaced them with a model that attracts the best legal talent to join us, giving them the freedom to invest fully into their client relationships.

Our purpose is simple; to deliver a positive impact for our clients, provide a better life for our people and to leave a better world than we found.

The Role

Working within the accounts department with 17 other staff and reporting to the Purchase Ledger Supervisor and Finance Operations Manager, your responsibilities will include all aspects of purchase ledger and supplier payments for a busy Solicitors Practice including posting invoices, processing expenses and credit card statements, creating pro forma invoices and sending payments.

You will also be required to assist with fee earner queries and helping other members of the department manage their workloads. You may also be required to assist the Finance Manager with preparation of month end reports which support the management accounts.

This is a high-profile role involving interaction across the business at all levels with both financial and non-financial people. Attention to detail, flexibility and a can-do attitude are prerequisites for this role.

Responsibilities

• Posting Supplier invoices in accordance with the firm’s practices
• Dealing with expenses and credit card statements in accordance with the firm’s practices.
• Monitoring the purchase ledger inbox to determine which requests to prioritise
• Creating payment runs
• Raising of disbursement bills and proforma payment requests
• Posting of journals
• Dealing with any follow up queries from fee earners in relation to their purchase ledger requests
• Dealing with general ledger enquiries that come into the department
• Preparation of reconciliations, reports and ad hoc information as reasonably requested.
• Undertake any further work, tasks or projects as reasonably requested by the Finance Manager. Complete the same to the required standards and within agreed timescales.

The Person

Experience

• Applicants must have relevant experience of the role and experience of working within a busy office environment.
• Knowledge and experience of the operation of a legal services business is highly desirable, as is knowledge of the SRA Accounts Rules.
• Experience within 3e would be an advantage but not essential.

Skills and Abilities

• Clear and concise written and spoken communication skills.
• Excellent listening skills with a proactive, problem-solving approach.
• Client service oriented. Reliable, keeps commitments, pro-active.
• Great attention to detail.
• Outstanding organisational and interpersonal skills and thrives on meeting exacting deadlines and delivering exceptional service to internal clients.
• A calm, professional, welcoming approach with the ability to work under pressure.

Personal Attributes

• Be able to maintain a positive and cheerful demeanour to building excellent working relationships with a wide variety of colleagues and partners.
• Be very people oriented – want to be helpful and sort things out for people.
• Thrive on spinning many plates with a cool head and to empathise with those you are spinning them for.
• Be a good team player demonstrating loyalty and commitment to the firm and your team.

For more information about gunnercooke please visit www.gunnercooke.com