Accounts Payable Assistant - #1699744

Job Title: Accounts Payable Assistant

Department: Finance

Location: Leeds

Contract Type:  Permanent

Accurate and timely delivery of intercompany information, recharges and IM cost allocations (actual/budget/forecast).

• Ensure the accurate coding, processing and review of purchase ledger invoices and PO's.
• Process employee expense claims and perform interim approval against the group expense policy.
• Manage the input of expense claims input into the accounting ledgers.
• Manage and reconcile key purchase ledger control accounts.
• Prepare payment runs for review and sign off and processing by the Cash team.

Manage supplier queries.

• Comfortable with Finance and data but not required to be qualified accountant.
• Able to communicate information, ideas, or issues effectively and clearly through the most appropriate channel within the team and to key stakeholders.
• Able to organise and prioritise own workload effectively, working to a high degree of autonomy.
• Confident challenging processes and escalating issues.
• Effective problem solver, generating practical solutions to often complex issues.
• An eye for detail, able to identify, investigate and clearly explain variance.
• Self-motivated with high energy and enthusiasm.
• Builds effective relationships with stakeholders across the firm.
• Strong collaboration skills - proactively seeks to share information and ideas.
• Comfortable working across the MS Office suite of applications.
• Keeps up to date with developments in the industry, including emerging risks and regulation.
• Able to consolidate and present information and analysis in an effective, digestible, and timely manner.