The Role: Accounts Payable
The Client: Private Equity
The Location: London City Centre - 5 days in the office
This is a new Accounts Payable position to join the finance team at a growing Private Equity firm in the centre of London reporting to the Financial Controller.
The Requirements:
- 5 years experience in a similar role running the Accounts Payable Function
- Prior experience working within Financial Services
- Strong analytical skills to solve technical & non-technical day-to day AP processes
- Experience in implementing / improving systems
- Good understanding of UK VAT
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is desirable
The Role:
- Take control of the whole AP function from start to finish for UK & Irish entities
- Oversee the processing of invoices by outsourced administrators for US investment advisors
- Preparing fortnightly payment runs and regular bank reconciliations as well as quarterly balance sheet reconciliation
- Liaising with the corporate finance team in other jurisdictions, fund finance team and administrators to process Fund related invoices (recharges, management fees etc) in a timely manner
- Producing and reconciling supplier statements, ensuring aged items are kept to a minimum
- First review and approval of out-of-pocket expense claims, integrating as invoices from Webexpenses, our personal expense platform, to Business Central
- Involvement with transformation projects for new AP systems