Accounts Receivable and Payable Specialist

Permanent Full Time (Optional 9-day fortnight working pattern available)

Closing Date: 14th January 2026.

Were hiring!

Stobbs blends IP expertise with a knowledge of business a passion for brands and a practical approach to problem solving.

As opportunity has arisen for an Accounts Receivable and Payable Specialist to join the Numbers Team in our Cambridge office. Reporting to the Cash Controller you will work alongside our Ireland Netherlands and US office.

Key responsibilities:

Your focus will be to support work in the following areas -

Preparing and sending invoices

• Tailored to client instructions including additional information consolidated invoicing and uploading to online billing systems.
• Including fee earner time and multi-currency disbursements
• Direct clients and overseas agents
• Client communication manging instructions and queries to maintain strong relationships
• Billing in sterling euros and US dollars using exchange rates for conversions

Processing Disbursements invoices

• Matching checking and coding invoices
• Querying rejected invoices with Suppliers
• Setting up new supplier accounts and maintaining existing account details
• Reconciliation of supplier statements
• Filing invoices electronically

Bank reconciliations

• Posting payments on to client accounts & supplier accounts
• Allocating unapplied cash
• Bank verifications for all suppliers
• Completing bank templates
• Preparing and completing monthly payment runs
• Intercompany recharges

Credit control Duties

• Keeping client details and requirements updated with correct addresses contacts and references
• Chase clients via the chasing cycle
• Managing larger client debt to ensure accounts are up to date chased and reconciled accordingly.
• Monitoring inboxes and other general admin duties

25% of the week will be to work alongside our disbursements team to complete ad hoc tasks. There is also the opportunity to learn management accounts working closely with our finance manager.

Essential skills and experience:

• You will have a minimum of one years experience working in a related finance role with knowledge of credit control processes and debt collection.
• Understanding of the month end process for the finance team.
• Have an eye for detail and is numerate and accurate.
• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills able to develop great relationships with others.
• Keen quick learner and able to use initiative.
• Clear confident communication skills (written and verbal)
• Organised methodical and efficient able to work with minimal supervision
• Strong Excel skills

Work at Stobbs:

Firm culture is important at Stobbs - friendly social approachable and where we look after each other. We regularly provide our own social and professional events. We manage the rights of some fantastic clients - obviously that means our advice has to be legally sound but its also about it being business savvy. We have high standards but learn from our mistakes. Were not internally competitive (well except when it comes to sports and quizzes!). Were certainly not run with an iron fist; we want our people to bring their whole selves to work wanting to perform well learn from mistakes and to feel comfortable asking questions and learning and helping us continue to improve and be the best we can be.

Our head office is north of Cambridge with an office in central London. We are trying to strike a good balance of supporting people to work flexibly while delivering for our clients and making Stobbs an attractive place to work. Our current hybrid working policy is a minimum requirement of two days in the office encouraging people in more if possible. We may expect you to be based in the office full-time during the first six-months. Those seeking a part-time role may also be considered.

Stobbs is a niche intellectual property practice that recognises that to give the best advice on brands you need to take a more strategic and holistic approach than pure trade mark expertise. To that end we launched the concept of Intangible Asset Management.

We have a breadth of capability that goes far beyond the scope of any other IP firm and encompasses trade marks designs and copyright litigation disputes commercial contracts brand intelligence brand extension (licensing) systems online brand enforcement anti-counterfeiting and brand restructuring.

Formed in 2013 with 18 people today we have over 200 professionals based in Cambridge London Dublin Eindhoven the US and Munich.