Senior Accounts Payable Specialist, Clio
CA$78.7-106.5k
2+ days a week in office
Legal practice management software
Open for applications
Legal practice management software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$78.7-106.5k
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Clio's mission is to build cloud-based and client-centred technology that will transform the legal experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in accounts payable or financial operations
- Strong leadership skills with experience managing or mentoring a team
- Proficiency in AP systems such as Coupa, Concur, and NetSuite
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to drive process improvements and optimize financial workflows
What the job involves
- Develop, implement, and maintain AP policies, systems, and procedures to align with company values and guiding principles
- Ensure compliance with internal controls and financial policies
- Ensure timely preparation and distribution of AP reports
- Conduct vendor analysis, expense reviews, and ad-hoc reporting
- Address issues at both strategic and functional levels to ensure smooth AP operations
- Oversee payment processes, ensuring accuracy and compliance with company policies
- Support the corporate travel and expense program to ensure adherence to financial policies
- Promote accurate and timely expense processing and reconciliation
- Assist in the implementation and optimization of P2P systems, including Coupa
- Ensure policies and controls are in place during system and process implementations for seamless procurement-to-payment operations
- Identify areas for automation and efficiency improvements
- Establish and maintain vendor onboarding and compliance processes
- Foster positive vendor relationships and mitigate potential risks
- Ensure contract adherence and collaborate with legal and procurement teams
- Generate and analyze vendor performance reports for continuous improvement
- Engage with internal business partners to understand their AP management needs
- Ensure an efficient and effective procure-to-pay (P2P) process, including procurement requests, invoice approvals, and payments
- Drive process improvement initiatives through technology-driven solutions and automation
- Prepare and analyze month-end closing activities, including invoice and PO accruals
- Conduct reconciliations to ensure financial accuracy and reporting compliance
- Partner with the Accounting team to support month-end close procedures
- Lead and manage invoice escalations and expedited requests
- Serve as the primary point of contact for external department communications related to AP
Our take
Modern law firms increasingly manage their work digitally but the lack of a specialised remote solution means that workflows have become fragmented. This leads to legal practice managers having to juggle multiple software solutions across various devices.
Clio provides a legal practice management platform designed for law firms, allowing users to manage billing for legal aid cases, access and manage documents and store files across multiple devices. Whilst other startups are operating in this niche, Clio has uniquely focussed on synchronisation across remote devices and on a wide range of integrations, allowing the user to access information from other industry standard software such as Xero and Klyant from within a single interface.
Clio has raised a large amount of investment capital, most recently in a 2021 Series E round which saw the company attain unicorn status with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. This funding is being used to accelerate its product development, hire additional talent, and for expansion into new markets with a focus on the EMEA region, particularly the UK and Ireland.
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Company
Company benefits
- Company equity
- $500 contribution when you become a parent and/or guardian
- 4-week minimum vacation
- Work from home when you need to (role-specific)
- Parental leave options for moms and dads
- Customizable extended health benefits (including $2000 per year to spend on counseling)
- Wellness programs including an onsite naturopath physiotherapist, and RMT (location-dependent), healthy snacks, and exercise classes
- RRSP-matching
Leadership
Jack Newton
(CEO)Experience as Director of Product Development for Chenomx Inc. from 2004 to 2009. Advisor for Logikcull.com, dealcloser, and Athennian.
Rian Gauvreau
(Board Member)Experience developing legal technology for Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP from 2000 to 2008. Graduated the University of British Columbia with an M.B.A. in Strategic Management in 2011.
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