Business Process Analyst – Accounts Payable

About Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins is one of the world’s leading global law firms advising the businesses and institutions that drive the global economy. We are the market leaders in major financial and business centers around the world. Our investment in people, commitment to innovation, and focus on the future empower you to build an incredible career and thrive as an exceptional professional in a supportive culture.

If you aspire to be the best, and work with the best, this is where you belong.

Latham & Watkins is one of the world’s leading global law firms advising the businesses and institutions that drive the global economy. We are the market leaders in major financial and business centers around the world. Our investment in people, commitment to innovation, and focus on the future empower you to build an incredible career and thrive as an exceptional professional in a supportive culture.

If you aspire to be the best, and work with the best, this is where you belong.

The Business Process Analyst – Accounts Payable is an integral part of Latham’s Global Finance team. This role will be responsible for working within the global Accounts Payable (AP) function to drive operational excellence, performance management, governance, and continuous improvement initiatives, while providing flexible AP operational coverage across roles, countries, and teams to support resource balancing and respond to changing business demands and workload fluctuations.

This role will be located in our Manchester office. Please note that this role may be eligible for a flexible working schedule that allows for a hybrid and in-office presence.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Leading AP operational analysis and performance management, developing meaningful KPIs, dashboards, and reporting to support data-driven decision-making
• Driving end-to-end AP process improvement and transformation, identifying inefficiencies, defining future-state processes, and delivering sustainable operational enhancements
• Maintaining robust AP governance, controls, and compliance by overseeing policies, procedures, documentation, audit support, and risk management activities
• Supporting AP change delivery and automation initiatives, partnering with technology and business stakeholders to define requirements, coordinate UAT, and enable successful implementation and adoption
• Contributing to AP strategic roadmap delivery, coordinating project activities, tracking actions, risks, dependencies, and benefits, and providing analysis to inform leadership decisions

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Exhibit well-developed and professional interpersonal skills and the ability to interact effectively with people at all organisational levels of the firm
• Possess the ability to work in a team environment with a customer service focus
• Display organisational skills needed to manage time well, prioritise effectively, and handle multiple deadlines

And have:

• A high school diploma or equivalent
• A bachelor’s degree, QBA, or equivalent, preferably
• Experience with in Accounts Payable, Finance Operations, Shared Services, or Procure-to-Pay environments; experience supporting testing, implementations, and operational projects, preferable
• Fluent English, with business-level proficiency in at least one of French, German, Spanish or Italian
• A Six Sigma Green Belt certification, with a proven track record of delivering process improvement initiatives using Six Sigma methodologies

Successful candidates will not only be provided with an outstanding career opportunity and welcoming environment, but will also be provided with a generous total compensation package with bonuses…