18.75 hours: Part-time Accounts Payable Assistant at US Law Firm - £26,000 Take Home

London based US law firm housed in stunning offices is looking to hire a new Accounts to work 18.75 hours per work, either over 5 days or 2.5 days.  In this role you will be the key contact for the day to day accounts payable function for the Brussels office in addition to supporting the London office to ensure that financial transactions for Brussels are timely and accurately processed and that they adhere to local requirements and the firm’s internal policies and procedures.  Duties will include review invoices, expense reports, and other payment requests for completeness, accuracy, correct coding, proper authorizations, and other compliance with firm policies, ensure accurate accounting and compliance with Belgian VAT and other relevant regulations and best practice, identify properly whether VAT is reclaimable, record electronic vouchers for approved invoices, expense reports and other payment requests in timely and accurate manner, resolve issues in advance of payment due dates to ensure timely payments to suppliers, process unpaid disbursements in routine manner so that others can check on the status, research payment status as requested, maintain accurate filing of invoices in London; ensures filing system follows protocols and promote accurate, prompt payment, embrace electronic filing methods for London and Brussels, reconcile invoices to vendor statements and bring any discrepancies to OA/DOA and Accounting Senior’s attention., work closely with office administration and staff ensuring firm best practices and procedures are followed, keep abreast with and apply established and developed knowledge of Brussels VAT filing requirements, prepare timely VAT returns as required. Submits EC Sales list for same and submits the proposed report to the firm’s Tax Manager for review and approve to ensure timely filing and provide back up and cover support for London.  Applicants require a solid academic background, strong working knowledge of spreadsheets be computer literate and have strong finance/accounts payable experience preferably from using the CMS/Aderant accounting platform.