Accounts Payable Specialist 3 month FTC

Accounts Payable Specialist - 3 month initial contract

£25 - 28k p/a (subject to experience) + 25 days holiday + pension

Fully remote role - with potential one day a month in the Bracknell Office

You must be a resident of the UK and have recent UK experience

Our client, is a well recognised UK business, and a key leader within it's industry and are based in Bracknell, require an Accounts Payable Assistant to join their friendly, experienced accounts payable team, initially on a 3 month contract, with a high likelihood of extension, potentially into a permanent role.

You are likely to be able to offer a few years of AP experience, and be personable, engaging, hard-working and friendly and offer superb communication skills.

You will be responsible for allocation of payments and cash, allocating payments to client accounts, and to to work closely with wider finance team. Our client can offer training, and ideally they would like to recruit an individual who is systems savvy, happy to assist with the cash allocations and queries, with a high attention to detail.

Key Accountabilities as the AP Specialist:

• Prepare and process supplier invoices
• Ensuring all transactional data is correctly recorded and invoiced
• Processing Expense claims each month
• Credit card statements reconciliation - and ensuring all credit card items are posted to the ledger in month of statement receipt
• Responsible for the administration of shared email inbox
• Payment processing via BACS, ensuring payments are correctly authorised and recorded in the Accounts Payable Finance system and released as per timeline requirements
• Reconciliation of supplier statements
• Management of payment/invoice queries and requests from both internal and external customers
• Effective query resolution, liaising collaboratively with customers internally and externally
• Support AP cash flow management
• Assist with month end close, ensuring reporting deadlines are met
• Provide cover within the team during holidays/absences
• Support system and process improvements across the AP function
• Assist in maintaining up-to-date procedures for the AP function for both internal and FCA purposes
• Liaise with internal and external auditors in relation to Accounts Payable
• Ad hoc tasks and support to the wider team in response to requests from line management

Essential Competencies:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical and mathematical skills
• Problem solving attitude and ability to identify solutions that comply with policies and controls
• Confidence and capability to educate and challenge colleagues to comply with more stringent policies and procedures which are evolving as the company grows
• Attention to detail, good organisational and effective time management skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet business requirements
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision as well as working as part of a high performing Finance team
• Ability to understand and interpret data to help process improvements
• Ability to prioritize workload, switching tasks to deliver key business requirements and ability to adapt to change and meet performance standards

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Ideally recent Accounts Payable experience gained recently, ideally from a multi-site, fast paced business
• Proficient Microsoft Excel skills

This is a really unique Accounts Payable Specialist role, for someone keen to put their next foot in the door of a superb friendly finance team. My client is currently working fully remotely, but for as and when you are in the office (maybe one day a month for team meetings) my client can offer very modern offices, free parking and ideally you will have a car and full driving license.

Please get in touch for this role and for further information on this AP Specialist role.

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