LME Group is the World Centre for industrial metals trading and clearing. Most of the world's non-ferrous metals business is conducted on the LME totaling $15.7 trillion, 185 million lots and 4.1 billion tons in 2018.

The metals community uses the LME, a member of HKEX Group, as a venue to transfer or take on price risk, as a physical market of last resort and as the provider of transparent global reference prices.

Overall Purpose of Role:

This role is principally responsible for finance operations activities with particular focus on the accounts payable function. This role acts as an initial point of contact for internal and external stakeholders and provides crucial support for the AP Manager. The role will take an active interest in improving processes and procedures, ensuring KPIs are achieved and supporting other members of the team / business.

Key Accountabilities:

• Perform the accounts payable process for LME end-to-end and ensure it runs smoothly
• Monitor payables email inboxes to ensure invoices and supplier queries are dealt with promptly and appropriately
• Liaise with suppliers / internal colleagues to resolve queries
• Input all invoices and match to purchase orders on a daily basis
• Process and check invoices and employee expenses in accordance with Company guidelines
• Create and process weekly multi-currency supplier and expenses payment runs including BACS / CHAPS / international / direct debit
• Ensure invoices are processed accurately and paid on a timely basis
• Assist with upload of cash transactions from the bank to the finance system and match to accounting entries on a daily basis
• Assist with bank reconciliations for multicurrency bank accounts on a monthly basis to provide accurate information in the management accounts
• Reconcile credit card statements
• Set up and validation of new suppliers in the finance system (in accordance with onboarding procedures)
• Reconciliation of supplier statements to the finance system in a timely manner.
• Assist in month end close procedures including reconciliations of sub-ledger reports to the general ledger and the investigation and clearance of any breaks therein
• Monitor accruals and other ad hoc reporting for the monthly management accounts
• Help maintain, monitor and review KPIs/SLAs. Liaise within AP team and across business divisions to ensure all targets are met. Report upon KPIs at AP / Finance team meetings
• Understand, document and maintain internal controls and standard operating procedures
• Assist with development / improvement of AP systems and procedures
• Provide training and guidance on purchasing processes to non-finance staff
• Other ad hoc tasks as required

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Academic and Professional Qualifications Required:

• Required: Basic accounting concepts - understanding of double entry essential
• Preferred: Accounting qualification or studying to attain

Required Knowledge and Level of Experience :

• Required: Experience of purchase ledger procedures (including purchase requisitions and purchase orders)
• Required: Intermediate-to-advanced MS Excel skills (including pivot tables and formulae), competent using MS Word
• Required: Complex finance system experience - multi-currency ledgers, integrated purchase requisition/order processes, managing interfaces between different systems
• Required: Electronic online banking experience
• Preferred: Oracle Financials experience
• Preferred: Ability to extract, manipulate and interpret data
• Preferred: Experience of accounting system change including user acceptance testing

Skills set and Core Competencies Required for Role :

• Meticulous and thorough, with strong attention to detail
• Excellent time management, ability to prioritise appropriately to ensure all deadlines are met
• Strong communicator - able to manage upwards and downwards within the Finance team
• Ability to communicate at all levels and to build positive working relationships with key internal stakeholders as well as with external parties such as suppliers and auditors
• Aptitude for working with accounting systems
• Proactively troubleshoot problems and escalate when appropriate
• Demonstrable numerical and analytical skills

Personal Qualities

• Be a proactive, innovative and enthusiastic individual who is self-motivated and a team player
• Ability to work as part of a small team and also to work upon own initiative as required
• Able to work under pressure of deadlines, and be flexible when required
• Reliable and dedicated
• Ability to build and develop positive working relationships