Job Title
- Finance Officer
- Role
- Business/Professional Services
- Expertise
- Finance
- Job Location
- Sydney
- Description
Ideally you will be located in Sydney, and work alongside our highly collegiate and valued national finance team. This role reports to the National Finance Operations Manager.
**About the role**
Billing
- Prepare & distribute monthly WIP reports to each practice
- Edit and finalise bills, including rate verification
- Review engagement letters to ensure that bills conform with client billing requirements
- Summarise billing information in client Service Level Agreement's
- Upload bills to & assist with client e-billing platforms.
Accounts Payable
- Review and profile invoices ensuring correct approvals obtained
- Process employee & partner expense reimbursements
- Maintain vendors on the AP system
- Enter invoices and expenses onto the AP system
- Prepare approved invoices for payment and obtain payment authorisation
- Review statements received from suppliers and reconcile vendor accounts
- Assist with internal and external AP queries.
General Commercial and Operational Support
- Operating, maintaining and evolving a suite of spreadsheets which are used by the Finance team
- Being a champion of Finance activity and systems across the office - Partners, fee earners, secretaries and other practice team members - problem solving, training, and communicating.
**Essential skills and experience**
- Minimum of 1 years' experience in a similar role
- Highly numerate & analytical with excellent attention to detail
- Comfortable in a dynamic environment and committed to proving a high-quality service to practice teams:
-- self-motivated with good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of an international organisation
- flexible with the ability to understand practice requirements, meet tight deadlines and manage competing priorities
- solving problems and continuously improving the effectiveness and efficiency of finance and related activity
- has a positive approach and attitude, shows high levels of initiative and enthusiasm
- able to challenge the status quo with a continuous improvement mind-set.
- Previous experience in a law firm or a professional services environment would be advantageous
- A knowledge of Thomson Reuters Elite 3E would be advantageous but not essential.
**How we will support you**
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 following competencies are used to inform all aspects across 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.
**About Clyde & Co in the Asia Pacific Region**
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.
**How to apply**
**_We offer a rewarding work environment that supports professional growth and opportunities. We value diversity in our work place and it is the policy of the Firm to recruit, hire, promote, reassign, compensate and train highly qualified persons without regard to race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable law._