Finance Assistant - Accounts Payable

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

1/22/2025

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Assistant to join the Accounts Payable team, based in the A&O Shearman Belfast office.

If you have excellent customer service skills and experience with Excel, we would love to hear from you! Apply today via the link below or reach out to me for more information at

A&O Belfast Finance

Belfast Finance is part of the A&O Shearman Support Services Centre, which was founded in 2011 with the aim of offering support to the A&O Shearman network.

Within the Belfast Finance, our services encompass managing financial accounting and reporting, revenue and ebilling, credit control, accounts payable, and tax. We provide support to offices located in London, the United States, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. Our approach is marked by a robust dedication to client service, and we diligently adhere to Service Level Agreements, targets, and deadlines to ensure that our performance aligns with client expectations.

What You Will Do

As a Finance Assistant in the Accounts Payable team, you will ensure high quality services are provided to both internal and external clients on a timely basis. You will also work with the Team Lead to continually strive to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the reporting systems and transactional processes, in addition to working with and supporting the appropriate Accounts Payable team to ensure accuracy and timeliness of work in accordance with pre-determined metrics.

This is varied role, including elements of data entry, handling client enquiries, providing detailed financial information in addition to general support and advice.

What you will have

• Commitment to providing professional, responsive and effective relationships
• Excellent communicator and confident in interaction with others
• Delivers tasks in a professional and organised way with limited supervision
• Ability to work well under pressure and multi task to meet targets and tight deadlines, with a keen eye for accuracy
• Committed to the maintenance of established processes and systems
• Enthusiastic, pro-active and flexible approach
• Competency with Microsoft Office packages
• Ability to assimilate large amounts of information quickly & learn rapidly
  
  

What we can offer you

At A&O Shearman, we recognise that our people are our most valuable asset, which is reflected in the wide range of benefits that are available to our employees. Some of these benefits include: our occupational pension scheme, group income protection cover, private medical insurance, mental health resources and free apps, health and wellbeing services including GP service, emergency back-up care support, parental and special leave, holiday entitlement increasing with length of service, holiday trading, online discounts and lifestyle management services.

Please note this role is based in the A&O Shearman Belfast office, with an onsite presence required at least 60% of the time in line with our hybrid working policy.

Should you require additional support at any stage of the recruitment process due to a disability or a health condition, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our recruitment team who will work with you to provide any adjustments as required.

We are an equal opportunities recruiter and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

We recognise the value of flexible working and embrace hybrid working, allowing our people to work from home up to 40% of their working time. We do however remain committed to working together in person for the remaining 60% of time so that we can learn, grow and succeed together.

If this role is not of interest we may have another suitable opportunity here for you at A&O Shearman! Visit our careers portal at A&O Shearman Careers and submit your CV to our Talent Network to be notified when the perfect opportunity becomes available.