Accounts Payable

This is a rarely available role and an exciting career opportunity for a financial expert, working for an expanding business unit in global Blue Chip company.  The ideal candidate will have 12 months+ Accounts Payable experience, ideally working for a similar sized organisation within a share service environment in your recent career history.

This role is initially for a 1 year contract, however for the right candidate this role offers long term career prospects with a view to permanency.

 
Overview:

As part of the CFS Purchase to Pay stream the Accounts Payable Administrator is a key supplier contact and responsible for ensuring accounts reconciled and invoices are validated prior to payment.

Key Responsibilities:

·     To identify invoices on hold within the system and to identify reason for query.

·     To prioritise resolution of invoices in query in line with value, age and escalations by the business.

·     To work with the business as appropriate to respond to supplier query or identify and facilitate the appropriate actions to enable the invoice to move to an approved state.

·     To escalate repetitive issues, identify root cause and work towards resolution

·     To understand and provide as appropriate ad-hoc information in relation to supplier account status and expenditure.

·     To work with payments team to ensure validity of payments.

·     To minimise financial risks to the company by recovering credit from suppliers in response to queries and issues.

·     To provide data to support accurate forecasting of cash outflows as required.

·     To work on ad-hoc projects as requested by the P2P Mananger.

·     To support Continuous Improvement initiatives.

Technical skills

·     Understanding and use of ERP systems, preferably ORACLE, SAP & Glovia.

·     Good Microsoft Office skills.

Qualifications/ Knowledge/ Experience required

·     Experience within P2P workstream

·     Demonstrate effective team-working

·     Demonstrate attention to detail

·     Effective query resolution