At Vision Express we're passionate about what we do and customer satisfaction is at the top of our agenda. From our stores to our support centre.... everyone has a key part to play.

A vacancy has arisen for an Accounts Payable Analyst within the Accounts Payable team.

Key Duties and Responsibilities include;

- To assist with the management of external supplier accounts. Actively manage Aged Creditors, GRNI reconciliation, debit balances, unmatched items and duplicate payments

- Reconcile supplier statements to the Purchase Ledger and GRNI/Accrual balances, requesting copies of invoices where necessary and the investigation and resolution of any discrepancies in a timely manner

- Provide specialist support and advice by responding to internal and external enquiries (in person, by telephone or email) in a professional timely and customer-focused manner

- Work collaboratively and in partnership with other departments and all stakeholders to ensure service quality and levels are always at a high standard

- Complete all tracker reports timely and accurately to ensure accurate and timely analysis of all outstanding issues/reconciliations

- Assisting the wider finance team with the day-to-day external relationships, including identifying opportunities to improve working capital and minimise operating costs whilst maintaining appropriate service levels

- Ensure department procedures are both regularly reviewed and updated as necessary to ensure they remain accurate and relevant

- Review the DDR report, to identify items being blocked for payment due to price or quantity discrepancies

- Contribute towards regular process reviews and ensure such reviews are documented

- Ensuring all supplier invoices are processed and paid in accordance with agreed internal SLAs and external payment terms through timely reconciliation and clearing of supplier statements

- Statement and GRNI reconciliations completed within agreed time tables

- Reporting on all exceptional balances with analysis of cause and actions to resolve on at least a monthly basis

- Supporting the maintenance of departmental procedures ensuring updates carried out as necessary in a timely manner

The successful candidate must;

- Educated to GCSE Level including Maths and English grade C or above or NVQ2 equivalent

- Experience within Accounts Payable essential, ideally some of which in a similar role, as well as Statement and GRNI reconciliations.

- Ability to prioritise and schedule own workload in the face of conflicting demands both as part of a team and working alone

- Ability to work under pressure and achieve set deadlines in a fast-paced environment

- Communication, influencing and persuasion skills along with the initiative to see things through without direction

- Reporting, analysis and decision making

- Experience in use of SAP (or similar ERP) desirable

- PC literacy with experience of MS Office applications (including Outlook, Word, Powerpoint and Excel)