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Job Title
e-Invoice Project Assistant 12 Months Fixed Term Contract
Office Location
London
Department
Finance
Working Hours
35 hours per week 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the officeplease contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.
Role Overview
The eInvoicing Project Assistant will be a key member of the Belgium einvoicing implementation project (and other offices) supporting the firms compliance with EU governmentmandated einvoicing requirements. The role will focus on finance system data analysis data remediation testing activities and operational setup of einvoicing processes.
Working closely with the Project team IT finance stakeholders and external einvoicing vendors the role will help ensure accurate data exchange robust testing outcomes and effective ongoing controls to support a successful golive and transition to businessasusual operations.
Key Responsibilities
Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure staff location or services. All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.
Perform detailed data gap analysis within the firms finance and billing systems to identify missing or noncompliant data required for EU einvoicing.
Coordinate and execute data backfill activities ensuring accuracy completeness and alignment with einvoicing standards and local requirements.
Support endtoend testing of the selected einvoicing application including unit testing system integration testing and user acceptance testing.
Test and validate data exchange and interface connections between the firms finance systems and the einvoicing solution working closely with IT and vendors to resolve defects.
Assist with the creation configuration and maintenance of einvoice templates including mapping of required data fields and formatting rules.
Prepare and process manual einvoices where required ensuring compliance with regulatory and firm standards.
Set up and maintain automated data gap and exception notifications to support ongoing data quality and compliance monitoring.
Document processes test results issues and resolutions to support audit knowledge transfer and future enhancements.
Provide project support during golive and postimplementation stabilisation phases.
Collaborate effectively with global and local stakeholders ensuring clear communication and timely delivery of assigned tasks.
Skills & Experience
Qualifications & Training
Experience in billing finance systems revenue management or financial operations ideally within a professional services or legal environment.
Knowledge of einvoicing concepts regulatory reporting or indirect tax compliance (EU VAT / einvoicing) is highly desirable.
Experience working with finance or ERP systems and thirdparty applications.
General Attributes
Strong analytical skills with the ability to perform detailed data analysis and identify gaps or inconsistencies.
High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
Experience in system and integration testing including documentation of test cases and outcomes.
Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines within a projectdriven environment.
Strong problemsolving skills and a proactive solutionsfocused approach.
Effective communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively with finance IT and external vendors.
Comfortable working within a regulatory or compliancedriven framework.
Equal Opportunities Employment & Agile Working Statement
It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin religion sex gender and gender identity age sexual orientation marital and civil partnership status pregnancy or disability.
Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis and we will be happy to discuss this further.
Required Experience:
Junior IC
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