Kennedys, a global law firm, is seeking an Accounts Receivable Specialist to join our US Finance team. This position will work as part of the Finance team, alongside the Billing, Collections, and Finance Database teams, to provide accounting support to Kennedys US internal and external clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Support US offices, ensuring compliance with firm's policy and client retainers or jurisdictional rules and regulations
• Process daily transactions through the firm's office and client accounts, including entering/authorizing payments on the banking system, posting payments/receipts, researching payment details, and registering disbursement vouchers
• Post and process cash receipts, bank deposits, credit card payments, and overpayment refunds
• Process monthly and daily bank reconciliations and reporting
• Monitor, categorize and handle e-mails and requests received in Service Desk Plus daily
• Scan and save checks, payment back-up, bank statements and other department documents
• Correspond with internal and external clients in a timely and professional manner
• Manage high volume workflow, maintaining strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Maintain open communication with colleagues, supervisors and managers
• Inform and update management on complex and time-consuming queries to ensure day to day workflow is maintained
• Respond to annual audits
• Provide back-up & support to the Accounting Team as needed

Required Skills and Experience

• At least 3-5 years of accounts receivable, cash applications experience required
• Experience with basic accounting functions and banking platforms
• Prior experience in a client or vendor facing role
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel
• Excellent organizational skills and keen attention to detail
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills

Preferred Experience

• Prior law firm/legal accounting experience
• Knowledge of 3E Legal System
• Knowledge of Chrome River

The annualized salary range for this role is $63,000-$70,000. However, this is contingent upon level of experience, location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

FLSA Status: Non-exempt

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 48 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.