Purchase Ledger Assistant
Accounts
Plymouth
Apply nowAre you an experienced Purchase Ledger Assistant looking for an opportunity to grow your career with a friendly team in a dynamic law firm in Plymouth? We are looking for a Purchase Ledger Assistant to join our Accounts team on a permanent basis. In this role you will be at the forefront of our growth journey contributing your experience in purchase ledger processes within a supportive and collaborative environment. Your keen eye for detail and experience in a business setting will ensure the accuracy and efficiency of our financial operations. You’ll find yourself surrounded by a friendly team dedicated to your success, offering every opportunity for you to expand and grow your experience in finance and accounts. If you’re ready to be part of something big and make your mark in the world of legal finance, we are keen to hear from you!
This is a varied and interesting role where you will process financial data within the Accounts team, primarily consisting of the Purchase Ledger and the memberships and accounts attached to that.
At Foot Anstey we are hugely proud of our welcoming and open culture within the team and wider firm, where you will be personally and professionally developed, having regular check-ins to support your continued success. We care enormously about our work and are looking for someone who shares our values to help us deliver the best results to our internal and external stakeholders. We will give you every opportunity to expand and grow your experience, so if a career in Finance/Accounts is what you are looking for, this could the perfect role for you!
What you’ll do:
- Process financial data of Purchase ledger and membership accounts.
- Support with cashiering, accounting, and bank procedures.
- Support the wider Accounts team when assistance is needed at peak times.
- Learn/understand the Financial Life Cycle process adopted within our business and contribute to managing this policy.
- Learn/understand Solicitors Accounts Rules and ensure compliance with.
- Produce work which is accurate and of high quality.
- Work collaboratively in a friendly team.
What we’re looking for
Whilst an understanding and experience of Purchase Ledger in a business environment is essential for this role, we will give you all the support you need to grow your skills further. You’ll be a strategic thinker who enjoys and is able to tackle challenges in a logical, step by step way, using your expert eye for detail and great organisational skills. You’ll be a confident, professional communicator, with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. And of course, it goes without saying that you will be a great team player to work effectively in a great team environment where we are all very happy to support each other.
Pre-employment screening
Successful applicants will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team.
Eligibility to work in the UK
Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process. All candidates must be able to prove their right to work in the UK, which may include meeting the Home Office criteria for Visa sponsorship. Candidates who require sponsorship should evaluate the Home Office eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa before applying and keep up to date with any legal developments.
Our offer to you
In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. Tailored to match the level you’re working at, we encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, 28 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday managing your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters. Take a look here to find out more about Our benefits | Foot Anstey.
Why Foot Anstey?
As one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients’ goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.
Over our history we’ve grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients’ needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from seven locations: Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton, and London.
Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital Skills Academy and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time in 2021. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role, you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.
Foot Anstey. Powering Your Ambition.
