Accounts Payable Assistant
Summary: The Accounts Payable Assistant role in Leeds involves ensuring the accurate and timely processing of supplier invoices and payments while maintaining strong financial controls. The position supports month-end close activities and safeguards the organization against fraud and errors. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in Accounts Payable and possess strong communication and problem-solving skills. This hybrid role requires effective organization and the ability to work autonomously while collaborating with suppliers and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Process supplier invoices accurately and in-line with company policies.
- Ensure appropriate coding to correct legal entities, departments and GL accounts.
- Manage invoice approval workflows and follow up on outstanding approvals.
- Identify and escalate discrepancies, duplicates, or anomalies.
- Maintain relevant supplier master data, ensuring appropriate verification and controls.
- Respond to supplier/business queries in a proactive, timely and professional manner.
- Reconcile supplier statements and resolve differences through active liaison with suppliers.
- Support onboarding of new suppliers in line with procurement and control policies.
- Maintain strong anti-fraud controls.
- Monitor aged payables and escalate overdue balances.
Key Skills:
- Significant prior experience in Accounts Payable, preferably within a complex, high-volume environment.
- Comfortable with Finance and data but not required to be qualified accountant.
- Able to communicate information, ideas, or issues effectively and clearly.
- Able to organise and prioritise own workload effectively.
- Confident challenging processes and escalating issues.
- Effective problem solver, generating practical solutions.
- An eye for detail, able to identify, investigate and clearly explain anomalies.
- Self-motivated with high energy and enthusiasm.
- Builds effective relationships with suppliers and stakeholders.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Comfortable working across the MS Office suite of applications.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job description: Role Title: Accounts Payable Assistant Division: Finance Location: Leeds Contract: until end of December 2026 Working pattern: Hybrid
About the Role To ensure accurate, timely, and controlled processing of supplier invoices and payments, maintaining strong financial control, supporting month-end close, and safeguarding the organisation against fraud and error.
What you’ll be responsible for
- Process supplier invoices accurately and in-line with company policies.
- Ensure appropriate coding to correct legal entities, departments and GL accounts.
- Manage invoice approval workflows and follow up on outstanding approvals.
- Identify and escalate discrepancies, duplicates, or anomalies.
- Maintain relevant supplier master data, ensuring appropriate verification and controls (e.g. bank detail checks, segregation of duties).
- Respond to supplier/business queries in a proactive, timely and professional manner.
- Reconcile supplier statements and resolve differences through active liaison with suppliers.
- Support onboarding of new suppliers in line with procurement and control policies.
- Maintain strong anti-fraud controls (e.g. independent callback procedures, segregation of duties).
- Monitor aged payables and escalate overdue balances.
About you If you meet some of these criteria and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply
- Significant prior experience in Accounts Payable, preferably within a complex, high-volume environment.
- 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 sort issues.
- An eye for detail, able to identify, investigate and clearly explain anomalies.
- Self-motivated with high energy and enthusiasm.
- Builds effective relationships with suppliers and stakeholders across the firm.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills - proactively seeks to share information.
- Comfortable working across the MS Office suite of applications.
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