Purchase Ledger Clerk FTC

Job Title: Purchase Ledger Clerk FTC

Duration: 6 Month Fixed-term Contract

Location: Manchester City Centre/Hybrid

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits

Reports to: Purchase Ledger Supervisor & Finance Operations Manager

About the Company

gunnercooke is a Top 75 law firm recognised by over 80 industry awards. Launched in 2010, the firm has rapidly grown to over 500 lawyers across 14 global offices in the UK, US, Germany and Austria. Our breadth of expertise covers some of the most interesting and important emerging disciplines, from ESG and charity law, to blockchain and competition.

Collaboration is at the forefront of our award-winning culture and is what sets our firm apart from the rest. gunnercooke operates as a fee share model meaning our professionals join as self-employed advisors, free to design and develop the practice they’ve always wanted. Our firm brings together the most ambitious and commercially-minded people, who build and work in dynamic teams of their choosing, to best suit their clients’ needs.

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. Our charitable arm, the gunnercooke foundation, enables us to directly engage with communities on social issues and to help charitable organisations grow.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunuity to join the team as a Purchase Ledger Clerk on 6 month Fixed-Term Contract!

Working within the accounts department with 30 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
• 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

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.
• Ability to plan and control activities to meet objectives.

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.

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

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