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Finance Service Delivery Manager - Purchase to Pay

Employer
DLA Piper
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
27 Mar 2019

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Vacancy Type
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Experience Level
Manager
Role Classification
Other Professional

Job Details

THE ROLE

We are recruiting a Finance Service Delivery Manager - Purchase to Pay to join one of our UK offices. You will be responsible for defining all DLA Piper (International) finance processes and procedures relating to Purchase to Pay and General Ledger services including:

  • Concur Expense Requests

  • Concur Invoice Requests

  • Bulk Supplier Invoice processing

  • New Supplier Set Up Requests

  • Supplier Statement reconciliation

  • Direct Debit and Standing Order payment controls

  • Supplier Payment runs

  • Invoice and Expense Approvals

You will drive the stability, maturity and optimization of all Purchase to Pay and General Ledger processes within the DLA Piper GSC and all International offices and advocate the DLA Piper GSC service model for Purchase to Pay and General Ledger with all key stakeholder groups. You will lead on all Purchase to Pay and General Ledger service improvement and transformation activities including the implementation of new technologies and automation to improve quality, effectiveness and compliance. You will develop effective stakeholder relationships with the business to qualify and quantify the end user experience and to facilitate improvement activity with business users.

Please note, this role will ideally be based in Sheffield or Leeds office, however, we will consider other UK offices.   

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Review and approve all Purchase to Pay and General Ledger process changes, ensuring that all changes are tested, trained and communicated effectively
  • Implement and maintain a Purchase to Pay and General Ledger governance and controls framework to monitor, assure and improve process quality, effectiveness and compliance
  • Establish effective working relationships with the GSC Purchase to Pay and General Ledger team to improve controls and process effectiveness
  • Work with the GSC Purchase to Pay and General Ledger teams to improve team capability and efficiency that will support further migration and transition of local services into the GSC
  • Work with local finance teams to ensure international Purchase to Pay and General Ledger delivery is consistent and to facilitate further service migrations to the GSC
  • Manage the DLA Piper relationship with Concur; manage the Concur budget ensuring Concur costs are understood, monitored and controlled
  • Review and approve all changes to the Concur contract through the agreed contract change control mechanism
  • Work closely with the Concur Invoice and Expenses projects to ensure that new deployments are delivered appropriately. Provide Finance Service Delivery sign off for all new deployments
  • Provide the lead for all auditor Purchase to Pay and General Ledger requests and queries
  • Act as Purchase to Pay lead on all firmwide projects that impact Purchase to Pay processes
  • Work closely with other process owners and internal business support groups 
  • Work with CAS Compliance Officer and GSC team to improve compliance with all appropriate Solicitors Accounts Rules and to reduce breaches across the firm
  • Develop and deliver Purchase to Pay business training and awareness programmes to improve end user understanding of the end to end Purchase to Pay process
  • Provide operational input to the project for next generation practice management system when appropriate

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

  • Have good communication skills, both written and verbal, and be fluent in English
  • Be a self-starter, who is able to work on their own initiative as well as being part of a virtual team, and has a strong client service orientation
  • Have a detailed understanding of International Purchase to Pay and General Ledger functions, including experience of complex or unusual transactions
  • Have an understanding or process management and improvement methodologies
  • Have experience of delivering projects and service improvement initiatives
  • Have a sound practical understanding of the UK Solicitors Accounts Rules
  • Have experience of transitioning services into shared service centres
  • Have strong coaching, counseling and training skills and the ability to lead a virtual team successfully
  • Be able to build and maintain strong relationships with the international teams
  • Be able to handle challenge from fee earners and service directors 
  • Be an influencer, able to negotiate and have strong decision making skills
  • Be comfortable multi-tasking and working to sometimes conflicting timescales and multiple priorities in a robust and fast-paced environment

THE FIRM

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world.

We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

At DLA Piper we are firmly committed to diversity and inclusion. For us, diversity isn't just about visible differences, it's the unique blend of talents, skills, experiences and perspectives that makes each of us an individual and we know it's crucial to have a culture and environment where those differences are genuinely valued.

We offer exceptional career opportunities to our lawyers, aspiring graduates, and business services professionals in a truly challenging and rewarding environment.

PRE-EMPLOYMENT SCREENING

Please note that, in the event that we make an offer of employment to you and where local legislation permits, we may conduct pre-employment screening that can include checks relating to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers.

Company

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world.

We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value to our clients, and we achieve this through practical and innovative legal solutions that help our clients succeed.

We’re proud to serve an international client base that includes more than half of the Fortune 250 and nearly half of the FTSE 350 companies. We help the world's top companies with their business-critical issues. Many of the deals we work on are complex and challenging – transcending not just practice areas, but borders, languages and legal systems. With offices throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we represent more clients in a broader range of geographies and practice disciplines than virtually any other law firm in the world. Our lawyers have wide experience in arbitration, banking, competition and trade, as well as corporate crime and corporate finance. We have strong practices in employment, energy, hospitality and leisure, insurance, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions and have developed key teams in pensions, private equity, real estate, tax, and technology

As a firm we are committed to diversity and to building an inclusive culture for all of our people, where differences are genuinely valued. For us, diversity isn't just about visible differences, it's the unique blend of talents, skills, experiences and perspectives that makes each of us an individual and we know it's crucial to have a culture and environment where those differences are genuinely valued.

Company info
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Location
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