Associate, Accounts Payable
Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment firm managing $73 billion in assets across primary, secondary, growth equity, credit, and co-investment strategies. It serves institutional investors, wealth managers, financial advisors, and insurance company clients.
About Adams Street Partners
Adams Street Partners is a 100% employee-owned, global leader in private markets with over 50 years in business, $73 billion in assets under management, tracking 35,800+ companies and holding 630+ direct company investments. The firm offers dedicated investment strategies and solutions including Co-Investments, Growth Equity, Primary Investments, Private Credit, and Secondary Investments, alongside Evergreen Solutions, Growth Capital Solutions, Private Wealth Solutions, Custom Solutions, and Insurance Solutions. It partners with institutional investors, wealth advisors and their clients, entrepreneurs and CEOs, and insurance companies, emphasizing transparency, trust, and alignment of interests through employee investment in its own products.
Skills
About the Role
You will manage legal invoice review, coding, approvals, processing, tracking, reconciliations, and follow-up. You will coordinate with internal stakeholders, outside counsel, and legal service providers; maintain legal spend and vendor records; prepare reporting; support accounts payable and finance activities; improve workflows; and assist with insurance renewals.
Requirements
- College graduate; coursework or a degree in accounting, finance, business, legal studies, or a related field preferred.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in accounts payable, billing, invoice management, accounting operations, legal operations, or a related finance support role preferred.
- Prior experience with Concur required.
- Experience with legal billing, matter management, invoice management tools, or Intacct preferred.
- Working knowledge of accounts payable processes, invoice coding, approval workflows, reconciliations, expense review, and supporting documentation standards.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, including advanced Excel proficiency.
- Organizational, analytical, communication, follow-up, prioritization, and deadline-management skills.
Responsibilities
- Manage the legal invoice process, including invoice review, coding, approvals, processing, tracking, reconciliations, and follow-up.
- Coordinate with Legal, Finance, internal business partners, outside counsel, and legal service providers to resolve invoice, coding, documentation, payment-status, and vendor questions.
- Maintain legal spend records, invoice trackers, vendor information, matter-level details, and reporting files.
- Prepare recurring and ad hoc reporting on legal invoices, legal spend, payment status, vendor activity, and finance or operational metrics.
- Support accounts payable activities for legal-related expenses, including invoice processing, expense review, payment documentation, reconciliations, and approval support.
- Participate in daily, monthly, and quarterly finance and accounting activities, including reconciliations and follow-up.
- Support process improvements for legal invoice workflows, approval routing, coding, documentation, tracking, reporting, and vendor communication.
- Support the annual insurance renewal process and related requests, documentation, and follow-up.
- Perform ad hoc finance, accounts payable, legal invoice, and operational projects.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) with immediate vesting and employer match.
- Profit sharing.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Paid parental leave, including adoption.
- Paid time off.
- Commuter benefits.
- Employer-paid short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Employer-paid life insurance.
- Additional voluntary benefits.