Accounts Payable Supervisor

Job Description

An amazing opportunity to be responsible for all purchase and payment processes, including relevant month end accounting (accruals, prepayments, reconciliations). Ensuring that robust procedures are designed and implemented and that all suppliers receivepayments in accordance with agreed trading terms.Client DetailsThe client is looking for a candidate with strong knowledge of accounts payable and month end procedures.Description

• Management of the purchase to pay function
• Ensuring purchase orders are created for all costs/invoices
• Ensuring that supplier invoices are processed promptly and accurately
• Assisting with authority limit administration on the purchase order system
• Managing purchase ledger VAT procedures to determine that this information is captured in an accurate manner
• Supporting the production of supplier payment runs and ad hoc payments and verifying that they are accurate and free from fraud or error
• Developing purchase ledger procedures to improve efficiency, increase accuracy and mitigate against risk
• Reconciliation of the purchase ledger control accounts and associated cost and balance sheet reconciliation accounts
• Manage the posting of payments to the cash book and ensuring that these transactions reconcile with the organisations bank accounts
• Reviewing expenditure on a monthly basis against budget/forecast and processing accruals and prepayments as and when necessary, by liaising with the Management Accountant
• Preparing detailed narrative to explain expenditure performance for the month, particularly the variance against budget/forecast, as required.
• Assisting the Management Accountant and department managers with any queries that they may have regarding the expenditure results detailed within the management accounts
• Supporting the Management Accountant and department managers with the preparation of the organisations Budget and reforecasts, reviewing historic expenditure performance and developing appropriate assumptions regarding projected future expenditure to beincorporated into the budget/forecast

Profile

• Fully conversant with purchase order, purchase ledger and procurement procedures
• Accruals and prepayment accounting
• P&L Cost and balance sheet analysis and reconciliation preparation
• Strong working knowledge of VAT regulations
• Advanced excel skills
• Minimum 2 years experience employed full time in a Finance Department purchase ledger function Experience of preparation and presentation of financial information to finance and non-finance stakeholders Experience of developing and improving financial reporting and financial procedures Experience of supporting and guiding members of staff within a Finance Department function Experience of preparing information for management accounts and budgets Ability to process and analyse complex data Excellent communication skills Ability to develop positive relationships with a range of stakeholders at all levels Ability to confidently make decisions and work well under pressure

Job Offer- 22-24 per hour- 9 month temporary role- Hybrid working