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Accounts Payable Assistant

Employer
Cobham Plc
Location
Dorset, South West England, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
Nov 24, 2020

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Job Role
Accounts Payable
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Cobham Mission Systems have an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Payable Assistant (known internally as an Accounting Assistant) to join the finance team.

Reporting to the Accounts Payable Supervisor, the AP Assistant will play a key role in maintaining supplier accounts and processing invoices to allow for timely and accurate payment to suppliers. This will include reviewing processes to identify areas for improvement and/or simplification, with an overall objective of facilitating more efficient, accurate and valuable financial reporting.

Full training and study support will be included with this key position.

This permanent role is based in Wimborne, Dorset.

As an Accounting Assistant, your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

Advantageous if you have experience with bookkeeping practices, studying towards AAT qualification or equivalent
Experience of working in a deadline driven, fast movement environment
Self-drive and initiative to achieve results and have the confidence to request support where required
Good communication skills, both written and verbal, to communicate both internally and externally
Ability to work on your own and also be part of a team
Experience in a deadline driven environment where quality must be maintained
Attention to detail
The ability to maintain clear and accurate financial records
Career motivated to progress a career in accounts

As an Accounting Assistant, your main responsibilities will involve:

Responsible for matching invoices, purchase orders and receivers
Handling queries from suppliers to resolve open issues and recommend actions to resolve discrepancies
Ensuring invoices are authorised appropriately
Maintaining supplier details
Reviewing vendor statements as a key control
Owning and maintaining GRNI for suppliers
Ad hoc support to Accounting Supervisor

About Cobham Mission Systems

As the world's leading supplier of critical control solutions, we help our customers to increase the safety and mission capabilities of their personnel and equipment in extreme environments.

Our proven and trusted solutions in air-to-air refuelling, life support, weapons carriage and unmanned systems, deliver assured performance and class-leading through-life costs that enable our customers to bring complex projects to market quickly, and with minimal risk.

We offer challenging and rewarding roles across a wide range of disciplines that combine to make us a true global technology and service leader.

Our ethos is rooted firmly in our history of innovation, leadership and empowerment and we take great pride in solving the big problems that others can't. If it can be done we can find a way.

We believe in operating as a team, both among ourselves and alongside our partners. And we believe in pushing our potential to its very limit.

After all, we did not get to where we are now, nor will we succeed in the future, by being unambiguous or complacent. For us, Every Mission Matters.

What You Can Expect From Us

We offer an excellent salary and benefits package which includes an annual bonus, employer matched pension scheme of up to 12%, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays with options to buy/sell 5 days per year, company funded life cover of 3x salary and income protection scheme as well as a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme. In addition, we offer a wide range of additional benefits through our Cobham Choice Benefit Portal covering Health & Wellbeing benefits, Insurances, Cycle Scheme, Gym Flex, Technology Scheme and discounted Retail Vouchers to name a few.

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