Purchase Ledger Supervisor

Moore Barlow is seeking a Purchase Ledger Supervisor to join our Southampton based team.

Our offices are modern, with an on site subsidised restaurant serving breakfast and lunch. The space is great for collaborative working or to take a well-earned break. If you have a keen eye for detail and are interested in developing or kickstarting your career in Finance, we may be what you’re looking for.

We are different – although a Top 100 Law firm, we strive to be ‘Human First’ in everything we do. This means we truly care about our teams as well as our clients. Whether you work within our legal teams, or one of our support functions, you’ll find a Career with Moore Barlow rewarding with plenty of opportunity for personal growth and development.

Day to Day:

You will be responsible for ensuring that all purchases of goods and services on behalf of the Firm are completely and accurately accounted for in accordance with the purchasing procedures, to include processing supplier invoices, payments and regular reconciliation of the supplier accounts. You will be involved in setting targets and objectives along with ongoing development and improvement of processes and systems.

What we look for:

• Supervision or management experience working within a finance department is essential.
• Experience of working within Purchase Ledger roles, ideally within a law firm or similar professional services business.
• Good knowledge of Excel and Word.
• Experience of using Elite 3E would be advantageous.
• A good working knowledge of relevant VAT rules.
• A good knowledge of Solicitors Accounts Rules would be of benefit.

Our Finance team have a great reputation for onward progression and development. If you have the experience above and are keen to join a firm with excellent career development opportunities, we’d strongly encourage you to apply.

We are Moore Barlow, a top regional career law firm with a simple mission – to make a difference.

We support our clients and the communities we help through providing outstanding legal services with empathy and expertise. A full service law firm, we support these core client groups: Individuals & Families, Entrepreneurial Businesses & Organisations and Personal/Catastrophic Injury & Medical Negligence.

We are passionate about making a difference to our people, their careers and care deeply about their experience at work. Moore Barlow aims to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for. This means that we care as much about your career as you do. So whether you join us early in your career, in one of our outstanding business support functions or are continuing an already rich career in law, you’ll find Moore Barlow a great place to further build your experience.

With numerous top-tier rankings in law, exceptional quality of work and named a Times Top 100 best law firm to work for, we have big plans. We are seeking passionate, human-focused individuals like you as we continue to grow. With over 450 dedicated professionals including 70 Partners and 272 Lawyers, Moore Barlow offers substantial opportunity for further advancement and personal development.

What we can offer

Our culture is open, diverse and inclusive and we look for likeminded individuals who recognise that it’s this individuality that allows us to be truly different to other firms. Everything we do is underpinned by the Moore Barlow Way, which is a set of values and principles to ensure consistency of experience no matter which team you work within.

As a true career firm, we seek to reward the great work our people undertake with continued personal development opportunities. We have big plans for growth, and we see that this creates extensive opportunity for our people as we move towards our long-term ambitions.

In most of our roles, we are also open to supporting hybrid, flexible working and different work patterns. What you do outside of work is as important as your time inside of work – and we want to strike the right balance for both the individual and the firm.

We also offer great benefits including 28 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, income protection, life assurance, firmwide bonus scheme and a generous pension scheme.

If you’re seeking to join a firm that seeks to provide a personal and highly engaging place to work – we are confident that you’ll find this at Moore Barlow.