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Accounts Payable Manager

Employer
Team Jobs Commercial
Location
Tyne & Wear, North East England, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
Oct 14, 2020

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Job Role
Accounts Payable
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
A fantastic opportunity for an Accounts Payable Manager to join an established national client sitting within the 'Industrial/Manufacturing' space.

You will be reporting into the Chief Accountant based at their Head office in Gateshead managing the accounts payable functions to maximise effectiveness and precision with 3 AP Clarks directly reporting into you. Therefore able to demonstrate proven leadership ability, able to motivate staff to deliver high-quality outputs. A self-motivated and confident self-starter, open to regular communication and able to hit the ground running!

Key Responsibilities

* Responsible for management of creditors ledger

* Management of 3 Accounts Payable Administrators

* Management of GI balance sheet control accounts

* Implementation and management of approved P2P procedures

* Resolution of supplier invoice queries in combination with the different business functional teams

* Management and coordination of timely supplier payment processes

* Monthly aged creditor reporting

* Management and reconciliation of intercompany creditor accounts with group companies

* Assist Head of Procurement Manager in setting up new group purchasing procedures to ensure authorised suppliers are only used

* To ensure that all invoices and other payment requests are checked and prepared for input onto the organisations computerised Ledger promptly and accurately.

* To ensure that invoices are authorised within the approval lines which are laid down in the Authority Matrix.

* Responsibility for monitoring unauthorised invoices, ensuring that these can be traced and queries resolved quickly.

* Update and train within the department to ensure that all aspects of the job are covered, to ensure smooth teamwork.

* To obtain signatures for payments and Bacs, and be able to carry out journal entries.

* Reconciliation's, to prepare purchase ledger supplier reconciliation's to supplier statements as and when required.

Experience -

* Significant previous Accounts payable management experience with responsibility for maintenance of a full resale and non-resale creditor ledger

* Experience of working with multiple locations

* Ability to plan and collaborate, across all levels of the business.

* Ability to identify problems and think pro-actively to make improvements

* Proven leadership ability, able to motivate staff to deliver high-quality output in line with set priorities.

* Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities

* A 'rolls your sleeves up and make a difference' kind of a person

* Must be self-motivated with strong sense of ownership

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