Accounts Payable and Expenses Administrator
About this role
This role is a key member of the finance operations team, delivering expenses and accounts payable services.
About the role
The Accounts Payable and Expenses Administrator ensures a smooth process of expense transactions and invoice processing, with work produced to a consistently high professional standard, focusing on stakeholder and client satisfaction, and effective stakeholder communication and service orientation. This role also ensures the compliance with the firm’s policies and regulatory requirements.
Your responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Processing of payments to suppliers using various banking portals
- Reconciliation of payments
- Sending Remittance Advice notifications to Suppliers
- Processing and reconciliation of direct debits
- Working with Cashiers to complete bank reconciliations
- Processing of supplier invoices
- Administration of Expense System
- Working with Finance Systems Team and Financial Accountants in relation to expense types and mapping
- Liaising with External Auditors on tax queries
- Working with HR and Tax teams in relation to Expense Policy
- Working with stakeholders to ensure expenses/credit card transactions and travel data feeds are processed efficiently
- Processing of payments to staff and partners for expense claims
- Analyse Unapproved, unprocessed, and draft expense items
- Administration of new starters and leavers
- Handling and resolving queries to ensure transactions are processed and allocated to matters promptly
- Administration of Corporate Credit Card Programme
- Reconciling monthly Credit Card Statements for 300+ users
- Working with Financial Accounts to reconcile balance sheet accounts
- Working with Cashiers to complete bank reconciliations
- General queries and calls from stakeholders and suppliers
- Knowledge of Accounts Payable function to allow full exposure of all team activities
- Involvement in Accounts Payable related Projects as advised as management team
About you
We will invest in your ongoing training and development to support your professional goals and help you to thrive in your role from day one. Our opportunities are open to all suitably qualified applicants, so to be considered for this role, you must meet the following skills and experience:
Qualifications & Experience
• Proven and relevant experience within a similar position within a professional services environment
• Desirable: Elite 3E or Elite Enterprise and an Expense system
• Desirable: Understanding of the legal industry and its operating model
Skills & Knowledge
• Good analytical skills
• Flexible, with the ability to multi-task
• An attention to detail in meet the high standards of accuracy required
• Able to work under time pressure demanded by tight deadlines
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a focus on customer service
• Ability to manage different stakeholders confidently and diplomatically
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What’s in it for you?
We want to reward you today and help you plan for tomorrow. We appreciate that everyone is different, therefore we have designed a benefits system that offers choice and flexibility based on individual needs and lifestyles. To name a few, these include:
Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)
Flexible, hybrid working policy
Generous bonus scheme
Up to 25 days holiday (rising to 28 days with service)
Holiday exchange scheme
Private medical insurance
Enhanced parental leave
Reasonable adjustments and accommodation for disabled talent in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.
If you would like to read more information regarding our range of benefits, please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.
Please note that we have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.
Company at a glance
Are you a MENA-based business seeking investments abroad, or a multinational looking to enter, establish or grow your business interests in the dynamic markets of MENA? With our lawyers based throughout the key regional commercial centres, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria and Turkey, CMS MENA has the resources and expertise to support all aspects of your business.
If you’re looking for new markets, investment opportunities, implementation of new strategies or have a dispute to resolve, we have specialist teams of over 125 lawyers on the ground to help across some of the region’s most exciting economies. Our local knowledge and business savvy approach means we give you both commercial and legal insight to make the most of the opportunities in the region. Our sector focus gives us a comprehensive understanding of our clients’ businesses and markets and allows us to constantly deliver sound and commercially relevant advice from any of our offices We focus on relationships, not deals, and we are considered more approachable and accessible than many of our competitors. Our clients tell us that they like working with us and that we’re often seen as the human face of the law.
International law firm CMS has over 5,000 lawyers in 79 locations worldwide to help organisations thrive in changing times. Through our technical rigour, strategic expertise and deep focus on building long-term partnerships, we are committed to putting our clients and their business success first.
Top Benefits
- Competitive basic salary
- Flexible, hybrid working policy
- Generous bonus scheme
- Up to 25 days holiday
- Holiday exchange scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Enhanced parental leave
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