Accounts Payable Specialist
Posted 3 days ago by Brookwood Recruitment Ltd
£25 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Accounts Payable Specialist role involves managing payment requests from suppliers, ensuring accurate and timely processing of invoices, and resolving billing discrepancies. This freelance position is hybrid, requiring two days of in-office work per week in Manchester, and is initially contracted for six months. The role demands strong analytical skills and effective communication with both internal teams and external suppliers. Adherence to compliance standards and internal control procedures is essential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure all Requests for Payments (RFPs) from taxi and car hire suppliers are processed accurately and timely.
- Analyse and resolve exceptions with the billings.
- Perform completeness checks before sending statements and remittances to suppliers.
- Liaise with internal teams and suppliers to resolve billing discrepancies promptly.
- Work with aged creditor reports and take actions to resolve aged items.
- Review, process, and send invoices for approval in a timely manner.
- Contribute to and support audits (internal and external).
- Promote one-way-of-working with Supply Managers and suppliers to eliminate exceptions and improve efficiency.
- Ensure internal control procedures are adhered to and documented according to compliance standards and guidelines.
- Act as the first point of contact for financial data analysis regarding trends, deviations, and exceptions.
- Perform ad hoc tasks as required.
- Model and support Booking values and Booking formula among team members.
Key Skills:
- Strong Excel skills (intermediate level).
- Effective communication skills internally and externally.
- Good organisation and administrative skills.
- Ability to meet tight deadlines.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Flexible and open to change.
- Customer-driven and service-oriented.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Previous experience is an advantage.
- SAP/Blackline experience is an advantage.
Salary (Rate): £25 hourly
City: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Accounts Payable Specialist We are supporting a global organisation • This is a freelance contract for 6 months initially. • The rate is £25 Inside IR35 (Umbrella) per hour, it is 37.5 hours per week. • 2 days per week hybrid remote working for the Manchester office.
- Responsibilities
- Ensure all Requests for Payments (RFPs) from our taxi and car hire suppliers are processed in an accurate and timely manner
- Analyse and resolve exceptions with the billings
- Perform completeness checks before sending statements and remittances to our suppliers
- Liaise with the internal teams and the suppliers to ensure billing discrepancies are resolved in a timely manner
- Work with aged creditor reports and take actions to resolve aged items
- Review, process and send invoices for approval in a timely manner
- Contribute to and support in audits (internal and external)
- In collaboration with Supply Managers and our suppliers promote one-way-of-working, eliminate exceptions and improve efficiency
- Ensure internal control procedures are adhered to and are documented in accordance with the compliance standards and guidelines
- Act as the first point of contact for performing analysis on specific areas of responsibility, regarding financial data such as trends, deviations, exceptions etc.
- Ad hoc tasks
- Role model living Booking values and Booking formula and support the other team members
- Knowledge / Skills
- Strong Excel skills (intermediate level)
- Ability to communicate effectively internally and externally
- Good organisation and administrative skills
- Ability to meet tight deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail
- Flexible and open to change
- Customer driven and service oriented
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Previous experience an advantage
- SAP/Blackline experience an advantage
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