Account payable assistant

Our client is a leading manufacturer of household cleaning products and products for home storage, air care, pest control, shoe care and professional products

Job Title: Accounts payable Assistant

Job Type: temp 3 months

Salary: 28k

Location: Camberley GU16 7AJ is the office

Working days: 1 day a week from home and half day Friday

Working mode: 1 day a week from home and half day Friday (finish at 1pm)

The purpose of this role is posting and parking invoices in the Purchase Ledger on a timely basis. This role is also required to actively support the Accounts Payable Associate Manager in both routine tasks and process improvements.

Ensure accounting process performs to Service Level Agreements within the SSC

• Processing intercompany and 3rd party invoices in a timely and accurate manner
• Be able to understand parked and blocked invoices
• Understanding how PO's have been created
• Performing ad-hoc analysis, query management, identification, and resolution of service delivery issues

Customer satisfaction

• Develop customer relationships with internal customers (purchasers- and accounting personnel) and provide a high-quality service to all stakeholders
• Resolving vendor and country queries efficiently and accurately

Quality and integrity of financial information provided by the SSC

• Ensuring the appropriate controls are operational to maintain the quality and integrity of financial information to comply with auditing requirements
• Ensuring consistency of process by following best practice

Owning the accounting to reporting process

• Identification and implementation of process improvements, with ability to competently share knowledge and learnings
• Sharing of knowledge with SSC staff including healthy contribution in team meetings and team objectives

REQUIREMENTS

• Previous experience of working within an accounts payable department for a multi-national organisation (or experience in AR/Finance role)
• Previous experience of processing high volume of documents in various currencies
• Knowledge of SAP
• Able to demonstrate previous delivery of process improvements
• Strong experience of working to deadlines with excellent attention to detail and a sense of urgency
• Good communication skills
• Strong team player
• Strong IT/Computer literate skills and Intermediate-advanced MS Excel skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities independently and as a team
• Ability to operate efficiently under continuous change
• Strong numeracy skills

Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.