Lewis Silkin is a UK top-100 commercial law firm with offices in London, Oxford, Cardiff and Hong Kong. The firm is recognised by clients and industries alike as being distinct: for its deep understanding, insight and advice to creative, innovative and brand-focused businesses; for its market-leading international practice in employment, immigration and reward; and for delivering pragmatic, commercial advice in a refreshingly human way.
With 59 partners and more than 300 staff, the firm is structured around two key divisions.
In employment, immigration and reward, it is consistently top-ranked, and was named HR Law Firm of the Year 2015 by the Legal 500. With over 100 lawyers, Lewis Silkin’s employment and immigration team offers an unrivalled service supporting clients, including many of the world’s leading businesses, on their HR, employment and immigration law needs domestically and internationally.
The creators, makers and innovators team is made up of leading advisers for creative, innovative and brand-focused businesses, offering a deep understanding of the industry sectors in which clients operate combined with real expertise across a wide range of legal services. From start-ups to multinationals, the firm’s comprehensive and commercially focused advice helps clients succeed in an increasingly complex and converged international marketplace. |
The Finance Department supports all aspects of the firm’s financial requirements from the provision of strategic support through to detailed transactional processing, with a key focus on providing excellent customer service to our internal clients. The department is comprised of a central finance team (based in London and Cardiff) plus a London-based operational team covering client related transactions and working capital related activities.
The Accounts Assistant is a part time job sharing role which sits within the central finance team. The central finance team deal with the processing of employee expenses and accounts payable, the provision of management information, financial reporting, compliance with VAT/PAYE regulations, oversight of payroll and Partner related transactions. |
Reporting to the Cardiff-based Finance Manager the Accounts Assistant role is a new role, based in our Cardiff office. The role is intended to provide varied support to the central finance team but will primarily focus on expense claim and accounts payable processing.
The Cardiff office is responsible for expense claims and accounts payable processes for all of the firm’s five offices and separate ledgers are maintained for the UK, Hong Kong and Dublin.
Working collaboratively with other team members, responsibilities will include:
|
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED
- Excellent attention to detail and a consistently high level of accuracy;
- Strong technical skills including intermediate Excel and ideally experience of practice management systems or other accounting software packages;
- An understanding of VAT recovery processes;
- The ability to manage their own time, organise their work and deal with queries efficiently and promptly;
- The ability to work with the rest of the team, supporting others as required;
- The ability to build relationships with partners and key stakeholders across the firm;
- The knowledge and desire to identify and implement improvements to processes and procedures;
- Strong communication skills at all levels of the organisation;
- An enthusiastic and flexible approach with a ‘can do’ attitude.
- Experience of all aspects of accounts payable / expense systems, preferably within a professional services environment but this is not essential.
This is a part time role working 21 hours per week (0.6 FTE) ideally Wednesday to Friday. However, we fully anticipate there will be flexibility around the configuration of days / hours worked during the week and are happy to discuss this further with each applicant at interview. |