Accounts Payable Manager | London | International PR Consultancy | £45-50,000 + bonus, benefits and study support
Following a period of reorganisation, this dynamic International PR Consultancy in Central London is looking to recruit an Accounts Payable Manager to join its busy finance department. The role is to process large levels of supplier invoices and expenses that are typically rebilled to clients. You will oversee two AP clerks and report to the Finance Manager. Key tasks include:
- Management of the end to end employee expense process
- Reviewing and allocating project expenses accurately to client accounts
- Processing supplier invoices
- Preparing payable reports and raising payment for approval
- Ensuing bank reconciliation and cash flow reports are routinely updated
- Complete understanding and accountability of the full accounts payable process and supplier Statement of Account reconciliations
- Ensuring compliance of company payment terms policy
- Managing Supplier reconciliations to ensure payment are accurately allocated to each account.
- Dealing with the financial administration and required reports, both internally and to external agencies as required
- Dealing with vendor queries via telephone and email
- Processing of supplier credit notes
- Enter accurate data in accordance with internal and external audit rules
- Assistance and dealing with Internal colleagues to resolve invoice queries
- Supporting the Accountants with queries during the annual financial audits and all necessary regulatory reporting to external bodies
What you'll need to succeed
- At least three years of relevant Accounts Payable experience
- Experience of managing a small team
- A background in media, entertainment or marketing would be ideal.
- Experience of working in a project environment involving client rebilling is a must.
- Experience working with Sage 50 and Oracle are ideal
- Must have a strong working knowledge of Excel (vlookup, sumifs, index/match, pivot tables, Excel tables)
- Strong attention to detail and high numeracy skills
- Well organised and capable of multi-tasking with attention to detail
- Self-motivated, taking personal ownership over all accountabilities
- Excellent communications skills; ability to build rapport with customers and team members using emails and telephone calls